An Analysis of Chinese Students' Perception and Production of Paired English Fricatives: From an ELF Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Zhang, Yanyan; Xiao, Jing
Titel	An Analysis of Chinese Students' Perception and Production of Paired English Fricatives: From an ELF Perspective
Quelle	In: Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 18 (2014) 1, S.171-192 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1345-8353
Schlagwörter	Asians; Pronunciation; English (Second Language); Difficulty Level; Language Role; Chinese; Native Language; Auditory Discrimination; Listening Skills; Reading Skills; Mutual Intelligibility; Phonemes; Intercultural Communication; Task Analysis; Auditory Perception; College Students; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Aussprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Schwierigkeitsgrad; China; Chinesen; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Fonem; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Aufgabenanalyse; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Collegestudent; Ausland
Abstract	English has assumed a new role in international communication in recent decades, that is, as a Lingua Franca (ELF) among speakers with different first languages. This study attempts to investigate and analyze Chinese university students' perception and production of paired English fricatives from the perspective of ELF. By using a listening discrimination task and a reading task, respectively, the study examined how thirty two non-English major freshmen from a key university in Mainland China perceived and produced English fricative consonants. It was found that the participants had extreme difficulty distinguishing between the two sounds in three pairs of consonants in perception, namely, /ð-z/, /v-w/, and /?-s/. In terms of production, the participants tended to replace the English fricative sounds, especially /ð/, /?/, /v/, /?/, with various substitutes. These results indicate that Chinese students often have more difficulties with certain fricatives than with others. In addition, they seem to have particular problems with voiced fricatives. Therefore, it is suggested that priorities should be given to those that impede mutual intelligibility in international communication, namely, to those that fall into the Lingua Franca Core (LFC). (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. Department of English, Namseoul University, 21 Maeju-ri, Seonghwan-eup, Cheonan-city, Choongnam, Korea 330-707. Tel: +82-2-3290-1995; e-mail: paalkorea@yahoo.co.kr; Web site: http://paal.kr/journals/journals.html
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Update	2017/4/10