Teaching Chinese Tones
Jingyu Zhao (赵婧钰)
Teaching Assistant
Department of
The purpose of this
paper is to discuss how Chinese tones can be taught to non-native
speakers. Chinese tones can be a
problematic area to both second language learner and the Chinese teacher. This
paper compares the English stress and intonation with Chinese tones. It will
provide certain samples; by analyzing the samples, problems in learning tones
will be discussed. According to the problems in tones learning, it focuses on
creates different kinds of tasks to help the learners learn the tones more
effectively. Also, it introduces certain technologies such as concept map to
help the learners correct their tones.