Chinese Student's Difficulties in Phonological Prosodic and Grammatical Skills While Learning English as a Foreign Language

The aim of this paper is to explore the difficulties for Chinese learners in phonological prosodic and grammatical skills while learning English, and try to find the methodological problems or disadvantages of the temporary English teaching in China. Having seen the problems of the Chinese learners in learning English, some typical problems have been listed, in a way that the two languages – Chinese and English are compared in pronunciations, structure and grammar, and the evidences of the strange L1 interference are also listed with Chinglish examples, based on the result others has already found. Concerning these typical problems of the learners, some unsuitable ways of teaching English are also revealed in this paper. With these crucial problems, some suggestions aiming to improve the way of teaching English, and in what sense should the innovation should be taken place, especially for oral English part are given. Additionally, the limited condition and wrong concept of teaching and learning English as a foreign language in China are also presented.Bscanglisztik