A Study on Chinese EFL Learners’ Phonetic Obstacles to Listening Comprehension

Perceiving and identifying speech sounds are greatly important in listening comprehension. This paper aims to analyze Chinese EFL learners’ Phonetic Obstacles to listening comprehension in terms of individual segments, sound change in fluent speech, stress, rhythm, intonation and English varieties....

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Published in:Journal of language teaching and research 2017-03, Vol.8 (2), p.404
Main Author: Hu, Fanghui
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chinese
Cognitive psychology
Communication
English as a second language instruction
English language learners
Foreign language learning
Handbooks
Higher education
Intonation
Knowledge
Language acquisition
Language varieties
Linguistic research
Linguistics
Listening comprehension
Phonetic analysis
Phonetics
Psychological aspects
Rhythm
Second language learning
Semantics
Sound
Sound change
Speaking
Speech
Speech sounds
Stress
Studies
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Summary:Perceiving and identifying speech sounds are greatly important in listening comprehension. This paper aims to analyze Chinese EFL learners’ Phonetic Obstacles to listening comprehension in terms of individual segments, sound change in fluent speech, stress, rhythm, intonation and English varieties. Based on the analysis, suggestions are proposed about how to overcome phonetic obstacles to improve Chinese EFL learners’ ability of listening, including increasing phonetic teaching in listening, memorizing the sound form of words and designing tasks of dictation.
ISSN:1798-4769
2053-0684
DOI:10.17507/jltr.0802.25