A Literature Review on the Sichuan Dialect’s Negative Transfer in English Phonological Acquisition for Senior High School Students
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Sichuan dialect, phonological negative transfer, L2 acquisition, senior high school students, English phonological acquisition
Abstract
There is a general issue that Chinese students find it hard to acquire English pronunciation. A lot of existing research papers are trying to analyze the phonological negative transfer in students’ second language acquisition, especially in Mandarin, and respectively raise feasible countermeasures. Nonetheless, the standard Mandarin differs a lot from southwestern Mandarin. The consequence is that Mandarin research cannot be fully suitable for local students in Sichuan. Although Sichuan dialect has a lot of influence on the pronunciation of local students, the shortage of targeted and specialized study is still being neglected. This paper aims to systematically sort out domestic studies regarding the negative transfer of Sichuan dialect in high school students who need to acquire English phonology, pinpoint the limitations of the existing phonological errors induced by Sichuan dialect spoken by senior high school students and put forward relevant solutions. Although existing studies have sorted out the types of negative transfer and do find some phonological errors among Chinese students, little research has concentrated on high school students in southwestern China. Meanwhile, the suggestions and pedagogical strategies proposed by the previous scholars lack localization. This paper details and supplements the current condition of phonological negative transfer of Sichuan dialect and provides some specific pedagogical solutions as a reference for English phonology teaching in southwestern China and creates some ideas for further study.
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