Abstract
With the steady development of international Chinese education, Thailand, as a country with a highly popular Chinese education system, is facing many teaching problems due to the shortage of Chinese teachers. The Ministry of Education of Thailand has incorporated Chinese into the national primary and secondary school education curriculum system. The group of young Chinese learners in Thailand has continued to expand, and the difficulty in mastering the pronunciation of initial consonants q and sh has become the core issue in Thai native Chinese teaching. This paper takes Thai primary school students as the research object. Through voice tests and classroom language material collection, it systematically summarizes the typical pronunciation errors of students in terms of q and sh; analyzes the causes of these errors from three dimensions: negative transfer of Thai language native pronunciation, the physiological characteristics of primary school students' pronunciation, and the insufficiency of local pronunciation teaching methods; carries out teaching intervention experiments to test the effect of correction strategies, providing empirical references and practical solutions for Chinese language classes for Thai primary school students.
The existing research on Chinese learners in Thailand mainly focuses on university students and high school students. There is a scarcity of studies on the alveolar and palatal sounds of young children in international schools. This paper conducts research based on classroom observations and audio recordings, summarizes the pronunciation errors of the learners, and provides empirical references for the phonetic teaching of similar Chinese learners in Thailand.