A Study on Accuracy of English Pronunciation by Students from the Area of Jianghuai Mandarin

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10.2991/sshr-17.2018.24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Jianghuai Mandarin, English pronunciation, accuracy, language transfer

Abstract

In any language, its basis and physical carrier is speech sounds. Hence, foreign language learners have to master speech sounds first when learning a second language. From the perspective of language transfer and the theory of sound perception and production, this study is based on contrastive analysis with a questionnaire survey and a tape-recording to investigate the accuracy of English pronunciation by students from the area of Jianghuai Mandarin. With the aid of GoldWave and SPSS17.0, this research makes an overall assessment for the accuracy of students' English pronunciation, tries to find evidences of negative transfer form Jianghuai Mandarin occurring in English pronunciation acquisition, and expects to explore other impeding factors. With the population of 70 million in the region of Jianghuai Mandarin, this research is of significance in improving overall level of English learners' pronunciation.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruilan Cao
AU  - Wenjuan Dai
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - A Study on Accuracy of English Pronunciation by Students from the Area of Jianghuai Mandarin
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Seminar on Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHR 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 142
EP  - 149
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/sshr-17.2018.24
DO  - 10.2991/sshr-17.2018.24
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