Abstract

Due to the differences between English and Chinese, people tend to migrate Chinese speech habits to English pronunciation when they learn English, which causes some mistakes in English phonetics learning. The paper makes an analysis of the impact of Huai’an dialect on the primary school students’ English phonetics learning. Analyzing the causes of primary students’ pronunciation problems, the writer puts forward some suggestions for the improvement of Huai’an primary school English phonetics learning. It hopes to seek methods of overcoming the negative transference that Huai’an dialect has to English ponetics to improve the quality of English teaching and learning in Huai’an primary schools.

Keywords: English pronounciation; Huai’an dialect; causes

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1.Introduction-1

2. Literature Review-1

2.1 Former researches on dialect and English phonetics-1

2.2 Theories in English phonetics learning-2

2.3 Introduction to English phonetics-4

2.4 Introduction to Huai’an dialect-5

3.Huai’an Dialect’s Influence on the English Phonetics Learning of Huai’an Elementary Students-6

3.1 Huai’an dialect’s influence on students’ pronunciation of phonetic vowels .6

3.2 Huai’an dialect’s influence on students’ pronunciation of phonetic consonants-6

3.3 Huai’an dialect’s influence on students’pronunciation of phonetic tone-7

4.Causes of the English Phonetic Pronunciation of Huai’an Elementary Students-8

4.1 Mother tongue’s negative transfer-8

4.2 Teachers’ misleading pronunciation-9

5. Suggestions for Huai’an Elementary Students to Learn English Phonetics More Effectively-10

5.1 Suggestions for students to speak classic English-10

5.2 Suggestions for English teachers to teach phonetics-13

6. Conclusion-15

Works Cited-17