Volume 3,Issue 9
The Critical Role of Phonological Syllabification in English Language Teaching for L1 Chinese Learners
This study investigates the critical role of phonological syllabification in English language teaching for L1 Chinese learners, arguing that the fundamental, often-overlooked discrepancy between orthographic and phonological syllabification is a primary source of decoding difficulty for polysyllabic words. The central thesis of this study is to analyze this fundamental distinction, explore the specific challenges it creates for L1 Chinese learners of English, and argue for the necessity of integrating explicit phonological syllabification instruction into ESL/EFL pedagogy. Consequently, the research concludes that current ESL/EFL methodologies are insufficient, strongly recommending the explicit integration of phonological syllabification strategy instruction to provide learners with the analytical tools to break words down by their phonological structure, thereby strengthening phonics skills, establishing robust grapheme-phoneme correspondence, and ultimately enhancing the efficiency and independence of English vocabulary acquisition.
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