Influence of Dialect on the Acquisition of English Consonants/s/and/z/  

作　　者：Sui Hua 

机构地区：[1]Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong 266109

出　　处：《International English Education Research》2014年第3期45-47,共3页国际英语教育研究（英文版）

摘　　要：. A dialect refers to a local variation of a language which is distinguished fi＇om variants of the same language in grammar, lexis, or pronuneiation. A dialect plays an important role in second language learning. It can be a positive element as well as negative one in second language learning. Pingdu dialect as a kind of mandarin variation has its own structure and pronunciation rules. By contrastive analysis, we study the negative transfer of Pingdu Dialect on English pronunciation. We mainly concentrate on how two initials ＂s＂ and ＂z＂ in pinyin which sound like two English consonants/0 /and/6/influence the pronunciation of English consonants/s/and/z/. We also fred the countermeasures to overcome negative transfer of dialect on the acquisition of English pronunciation, thereby helping EFL learners in certain area of China acquire accurate English pronuneiations and enhance the ability of intercultural eommunication.

关 键 词：Pingdu dialect negative transfer fiicatives countermeasures. 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语] H17