A Contrastive Analysis between English and Chinese Pronunciation——Positive Transfer on English Phonetics Learning

This thesis, based on the psychological foundation of Contrastive Analysis——language transfer, is to explore a better method for children to make use of our mother tongue——Chinese Pinyin to learn English phonemes. It mainly studies the similarities between Chinese Pinyin and English phonemes. And the author views that owing to children’s individual requirements of development, teachers can lead children to connecting their previous existing Chinese Pinyin knowledge with their new knowledge and take the advantages of these similarities to make a positive transfer in learning English phonemes.

This thesis, based on the psychological foundation of Contrastive Analysis language transfer, is to explore a better method for children to make use of our mother tongue Chinese Pinyin to learn English phonemes. It mainly studies the similarities between Chinese Pinyin and English phonemes. And the author views that owing to children＇s individual requirements of development, teachers can lead children to connecting their previous existing Chinese Pinyin knowledge with their new kinowledge and take the advantages of these similarities to make a positive transfer in learning English phonemes.