北京理工大学珠海学院 2020 届本科生毕业论文On the Influence and Coping Strategies of Dialect on English Phonetic Acquisition from the Perspective of Language Transfer: A Case Study of Cantonese in GuangdongOn the Influence and Coping Strategies of Dialect on English Phonetic Acquisition from the Perspective of Language Transfer: A Case Study of Cantonese in GuangdongAbstractThe teaching in phonetics has always been one of the biggest problems in English teaching in China. For learners in Guangdong, due to the influence of Cantonese as their mother tongue, students’ English pronunciation is not accurate, I北京理工大学珠海学院 2020 届本科生毕业论文which brings certain difficulties to their English learning. This is also one of the reasons why middle school students lose interest and confidence in English learning. Therefore, it is necessary to find out the negative transfer effect of Cantonese on English pronunciation.To investigate the English pronunciation performance of Cantonese students, a test was carried out. Eighty-seven middle school students from Guangzhou and Zhuhai participated in the pronunciation test. The results showed that students could not distinguish similar monophthongs and consonants. Besides, they pronounced diphthongs incompletely, and there was a problem of eliding the end of a syllable when reading phrases and sentences. Generally speaking, students in Guangdong have a good command of English intonation. The main problem is the pronunciation of vowels and consonants, which can lead to mispronunciation or elision.The main problems are that the pronunciation of vowels and consonants are not in place, which may lead to pronunciation errors or incorrect elision. The negative transfer of Cantonese to...
