Teaching the Sounds of Standard Chinese: Goals and Challenges (lecture)

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Třísková, Hana
Teaching the Sounds of Standard Chinese: Goals and Challenges (lecture).
2012
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Mandarin * Standard Chinese * phonetics * teaching * methodology
Subject RIV: AI - Linguistics

The lecture deals with two major issues concerning teaching Mandarin pronunciation. First, it introduces the facts of language – i.e. the objective properties of Mandarin sound structure (e.g. Mandarin is a tone language, it has both tone and stress, it is stress-timed, it has numerous diphthongs and triphthongs, difficult consonants etc.), resulting in various learning challenges. Second, the ways and methodologies to cope with these challenges are suggested.
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