不同语音知觉训练方式对汉语儿童和成人英语语音产出的作用

The Effect of the Different Phonetic Perception Training on Chinese Children and Adults' English Phonetic Production

通过前测-训练-后测的实验程序,首先让22名五年级小学生和29名大学一年级学生分别在纯听或视听训练条件下学习知觉语音/s/和/θ/,然后对训练后他们产出语音/s/和/θ/的效果进行比较,以此来探讨不同语音知觉训练方式对儿童和成人语音产出的迁移作用。结果发现:(1)对于儿童来说,接受视听训练的被试在产出语音/s/和/θ/的准确性等级上的提高显著高于纯听训练被试;(2)对于大学生来说,接受两种训练的被试在产出/s/和/θ/的准确性等级上的提高率没有显著差异。以上结果表明,视听训练方式对语音产出的促进作用在儿童身上更加明显,早期的视听双通道语音知觉训练非常重要。

The study explored the effect of different training ways of phonetic perception on children and adults＇ phonetic production using the procedures of pretest, training and post-test. In the preand posttest, 22 primary school students in Grade 5 and 29 freshmen were required to produce the/s/and/θ/. During the training process, half of the children and adults learn to discriminate the/s/and/θ/ under audio-only modality, and another half under the au- dio-visual modality, all of the training lasted for ten days, and thirty minutes each day. The results showed that all the children and adults performed significantly better at the post-test than the pretest;as far as the improvement from the pre-test to the post-test, the children with audio-visual training performed significantly better than the ones with au- dio-only training, while there was no significant difference between two groups of adults. It implicated that during the early English teaching, the audio-visual teaching or learning way maybe effective for children to improve their English phonetic percep- tion and production.