Research on Phonetics Testing in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

Author: Mao Shizheng
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL), as a cause of a nation and a people, can be traced back to the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. It developed into a discipline at the "Beijing Regional Language Discipline Planning Symposium" in 1978, when Mr. Lü Bishong first proposed it. Since then, applied linguists and TCFL engineers have worked tirelessly, driving the development of the discipline and effectively promoting the vigorous growth of this cause. This book includes chapters on an introduction to phonetic testing, phonetic competence and phonetic application, the phonemic system and its application, the phonemic load of Mandarin, the current status of phonetic teaching in TCFL, the objectives of TCFL phonetic testing,, the testing of difficulties and the focus of measurement, the analysis of phonetic errors and defects in TCFL phonetic testing, the composition of test questions and test papers for TCFL phonetic testing, actual testing and test paper evaluation, and more.