TITLE:
The Negative Transfer Effect of Jianghuai Dialect in Huai’an on Local Students’ English Pronunciation
AUTHORS:
Qin Yang
KEYWORDS:
English Phonetics, Jianghuai Dialect, Negative Transfer, Vowels, Consonant
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.11,
October
24,
2022
ABSTRACT: In English pronunciation learning, the difference
between Chinese dialects and English will interfere with the acquisition of
pronunciation. Students often transfer the pronunciation characteristics of
dialects to English pronunciation, which affects the learning and application
of English pronunciation. Therefore, it is necessary to study the influence of
dialect on English phonetic acquisition. On the basis of systematically
summarizing the theory of negative transfer of Chinese and dialects to English
acquisition, this paper takes the students of a junior high school in Huai’an as samples, and
investigates the negative transfer effect of Jianghuai dialect on the phonological
transfer of local students’ English. On the one hand, negative transfer effect
of Jianghuai dialect on local students’ English vowels pronunciation manifests in the following aspects: no distinction between
long and short vowels, tightness and length
are indistinguishable, incomplete pronunciation of English diphthongs.
On the other hand, negative transfer effect on consonant pronunciation is
obvious, including unable to distinguish between [n] and [l], lacking rhyme [v]
and initial “r”, no interdental fricatives [θ] [e]. The research results can
help junior high school students to overcome negative transfer and provide
scientific guidance for English phonetic teaching in Huai’an.