Intermediate Level Of Chinese Korean Students Tone Bias Research

In recent years, there are more and more communications between Korea and China. As a result, the needs of persons who can speak both Korean and Chinese are increasing. More and more Korean especially Korean students come to China to learn Chinese. The writer has taught a lot of Korean students and knows the difficulties in their language learning and in their tones learning. As for most of Korean students, tones learning are very difficult and they make quite a few errors on tones. The writer made a survey and carried out an experiment about tones learning on 22 Korean students' of medium level Chinese. Through the survey and the experiment, we have found out their regular errors on tones listening.The experiment result shows that Korean students often make errors on the second and the third tone. The reasons are:1 , Chinese second tone is very familiar with Chinese third tone2, Korean students' mother tongue has some negative effect on their tones learning3 , The environment affects their Chinese learningThe survey shows that most of Korean students have difficulties in tones learning. They think that this problem has connection with their own study and their mother tongue. They hope to get teachers help and improve their pronunciation through exercises.