How pinyin tone formats and character orthography influence Chinese learners’ tone acquisition

Chinese as a Second Language Research Pub Date : 2018-10-09 DOI:10.1515/caslar-2018-0008

Yufen Chang

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Abstract In L2 Chinese vocabulary instruction, the most conventional method of teaching is to present the new character, its English translation, and pinyin as a pronunciation guide to the segmental and tonal information. In this study focusing on tone formats and the presence of a phonetic radical, we investigated how these two aspects could impact tone acquisition. In the experiment, L2 Chinese participants of three proficiency levels learned 24 unfamiliar words, passed a criterion test with 90 % correctness, and completed a tone perception and production task. The results showed that the learners perceived and produced tones significantly better when characters were shown with tone diacritics and when the phonetic radical was reliable. The presence of pinyin with tone number did not facilitate tone acquisition more than the condition where pinyin was unavailable. The learners’ proficiency levels, only affecting the number of learning sessions required to pass the criterion test, did not correlate with their tone performance.

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拼音声调格式和汉字正字法如何影响汉语学习者的声调习得

在二语汉语词汇教学中，最传统的教学方法是将新汉字及其英文翻译呈现出来，并以拼音作为发音指南，引导语段和声调信息。在本研究中，我们关注声调格式和语音自由基的存在，研究了这两个方面如何影响声调习得。在实验中，三个熟练程度的二语汉语参与者学习了24个不熟悉的单词，以90%的正确率通过了标准测试，并完成了音调感知和产生任务。结果表明，当汉字显示声调变音符时，当音根可靠时，学习者对声调的感知和产生明显更好。有声调数字的拼音的存在并不比没有拼音的情况更有利于声调习得。学习者的熟练程度只影响通过标准测试所需的学习时间，与他们的语调表现无关。

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Chinese as a Second Language Research Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR) focuses on research on the acquisition, development, and use of Chinese as a Second Language. It supports scholars and researchers from different linguistic fields, and serves as a forum to discuss, investigate, and better understand Chinese as a Second Language. Each issue (2 per year) of the journal publishes three papers in Chinese and three papers in English; summaries are always provided both in Chinese and English. We are especially interested in publishing articles and research papers that investigate how empirical findings of CSL research can advance and develop better Chinese language teaching methodologies, explore the implications of CSL research for theoretical developments and practical applications, focus on the acquisition and use of varieties of CSL, study the nature of interaction between native speakers and non-native speakers of Chinese, address major issues of second language acquisition from the perspective of CSL, analyze the ways in which language is both shaped by culture and is the medium through which culture is created.

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