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The Positive and Negative Transfer Effects of Native Chinese Dialects in Japanese Phonological Learning
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Abstract
In recent years, much attention has been paid to research on the positive and negative transfer effects of learners’ native dialects on foreign language phonological learning. For native Chinese learners, dialects may have both positive and negative effects on learning Japanese phonology. This paper begins with an understanding of the phonetic characteristics of the Wu dialect, followed by an account of the influence of the dialect on Japanese phonological learning, and then discusses this influence with examples from both positive and negative aspects. The main purpose of this paper is to call on learners to strengthen their awareness of phonological differences and to improve their Japanese phonological skills by overcoming the difficulties posed by dialects through active phonological training and learning strategies. At the same time, teachers and educational institutions should provide targeted teaching and guidance based on learners’ dialectal backgrounds to help learners master the phonetic features of the Japanese language so that they can learn Japanese better.
Keywords
Japanese phonetic learning, Wu dialect, positive and negative transfer
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-183-4
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-184-1
- Published Date
- 07 December 2023
- Series
- Communications in Humanities Research
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7064
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7072
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7064/20/20231292
- Copyright
- 07 December 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited