Abstract Due to the differences between English and Chinese, people tend to migrate Chinese speech habits to English pronunciation when they learn English, which causes some mistakes in English phonetics learning. The paper makes an analysis of the impact of Huai’an dialect on the primary school students’ English phonetics learning. Analyzing the causes of primary students’ pronunciation problems, the writer puts forward some suggestions for the improvement of Huai’an primary school English phonetics learning. It hopes to seek methods of overcoming the negative transference that Huai’an dialect has to English ponetics to improve the quality of English teaching and learning in Huai’an primary schools.69689

Keywords: English pronounciation; Huai’an dialect; causes

摘要由于英语和汉语之间的差异，人们在学习英语语音时，往往将汉语的发音习惯迁移到英语语音中，导致英语语音学习上的错误和困难。本文通过淮安方言对小学生英语语音学习影响现象的分析，探讨导致小学生语音发音出现问题的原因，从而提出改进淮安小学生英语语音学习的几点建议。本文旨在寻求克服淮安方言对英语语音产生负迁移的方法，从而提高淮安小学生英语教学质量。

毕业论文关键词：英语语音；淮安方言；成因

Contents

1.Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 1

2.1 Former researches on dialect and English phonetics 1

2.2 Theories in English phonetics learning 2

2.3 Introduction to English phonetics 4

2.4 Introduction to Huai’an dialect 5

3.Huai’an Dialect’s Influence on the English Phonetics Learning of Huai’an Elementary Students 6

3.1 Huai’an dialect’s influence on students’ pronunciation of phonetic vowels .6

3.2 Huai’an dialect’s influence on students’ pronunciation of phonetic consonants 6

3.3 Huai’an dialect’s influence on students’pronunciation of phonetic tone 7

4.Causes of the English Phonetic Pronunciation of Huai’an Elementary Students 8

4.1 Mother tongue’s negative transfer 8

4.2 Teachers’ misleading pronunciation 9

5. Suggestions for Huai’an Elementary Students to Learn English Phonetics More Effectively 10

5.1 Suggestions for students to speak classic English 10

5.2 Suggestions for English teachers to teach phonetics 13

6. Conclusion 15

Works Cited 17

1. Introduction

With the development of the society and the coming concept of “Developing Chinese to the world”, English teaching plays a more important role in primary school education and the English pronunciation is especially significant. Phonetics is the foundation of learning language, because the phonetics is closely connected with word remembering, listening, oral communication and so on. So we must learn phonetic well to master and improve English level. While learning English phonetics, students are unavoidably affected by many factors. Researches found that the main factor is students' local dialect habits. As a result, improving students’ phonetic learning from primary schools is very important. In this text, by analyzing the influential factors to let students know the knowledge about English pronunciation and dialect, and let them imitate and practice the pure English pronunciation, thus to avoid dialect’s negative effects on English phonetics.