Tonal Spelling versus Diacritics for Teaching Pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese  

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McGinnis, Scott

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Modern Language Journal (sebagian Full Text & ada di JSTOR) vol. 81 no. 2 (Jun. 1997), page 228-236.
Fulltext: Vol 81 no 2 pp.228-236.pdf (1.49MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/MLJ/81 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This study presents results from a 2-year investigation of the comparative efficacy of tonal spelling and diacritics in the teaching of Mandarin Chinese pronunciation'! The research site was the elementary level Chinese language course at the University of Oregon. During the 1991-92 academic year, the course was taught using a romanization system with diacritics, hanyu pinyin (PY); during the 1992-93 academic year, the course was taught using a tonal spelling system, gwoyeu romatzyh (GR). The analytical mechanism of this study calculates student tonal error rates in identical (save for the romanization system used) reading tasks at identical points in each year's course. Native speakers of Chinese served as assessors. The results clearly indicated that GR did not lead to significantly greater accuracy in tonal production. Indeed, the use of GR reflected slightly lower rates of tonal production accuracy for native speakers of both American English and japanese.

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