本研究以香港高校一门中文传意课程中粤语母语学生的普通话产出为材料，分析影响「言语可懂度（speech intelligibility）」（参 Smith & Nelson, 1985；Munro & Derwing, 1995）的语音要素。针对 19 位发音人 126 个可懂度低的音节，研究发现：（1）单一成分偏误中，韵母偏误占比最高，其次是声母偏误；（2）多种成分偏误组合中，「声母 +韵母」偏误占比最高；（3）声母偏误中，sh 误读最为多见；（4）韵母偏误中，i 误读最为多见，含介音韵母误读亦较多；（5）声调偏误中，第四声误读最为多见，与其他三声相混，二、三声也有相混情况。研究表明，在以传意为目标、面向粤语母语者的普通话教学中，可优先教学声韵母，声调教学稍列其后；重点及优先教学舌尖后音与舌面音（尤其是声母 sh 与 x）、声母 r、单韵母 i 与 u、以及含介音的音节，并围绕第四声进行声调教学。本研究为探索「大华语」（陆俭明，2005、2015；李宇明，2017）的语音「共核」（Common Core）（祝晓宏，2019）提供了实证研究的材料与观点，同时为以传意为目标的普通话语音教学观提供了理据。 This study investigates the Putonghua pronunciation of Cantonese-speaking students in a Chinese communication course at a Hong Kong university, focusing on the phonetic elements that impact “speech intelligibility” (Smith & Nelson, 1985; Munro & Derwing, 1995). The analysis of 126 low-intelligibility syllables produced by 19 speakers revealed that (1) Among single-component errors, vowel errors were the most prevalent, followed by consonant errors; (2) In error combinations, “consonant + vowel” were the most common; (3) Within consonant errors, mispronunciations of “sh” occurred most frequently, followed by errors involving “h,” “x,” “r,” “j,” and “zh”; (4) For vowel errors, “i” was the most commonly mispronounced, particularly in vowels with medial glides; (5) Tone errors were dominated by mispronunciations of the fourth tone, with occasional confusion between the second and third tones. The findings suggest that in Putonghua teaching aimed at Cantonese native speakers with communication as the goal, teaching initials and finals could take precedence over tones, focusing on teaching apical post-alveolars and alveolo-palatals (especially the initials “sh” and “x”), the initial “r”, the monophthongs “i” and “u” and syllables containing medial sounds. Tone teaching should revolve around the fourth tone. This research provides empirical insights and perspectives for exploring the phonetic “Common Core” (Zhu, 2019) under the context of Global Chinese (Lu, 2005, 2015; Li, 2017).

To cater to the varied learning backgrounds, needs and diverse proficiency levels of the non-Chinese background students at the HK University of Science, since June 2021 onwards, the Center for Language Education has been designing the new Chinese curriculum. The new curriculum offers three speaking and listening courses and two reading and writing courses based on the results of the needs analysis. In order to boost students’ spirit of inquiry and facilitate collaborative and self-directed learning, blended learning is adopted in the instructional design of the five new courses. This study will introduce the blended learning design of the five courses including the course design process, the models and technology used, and will explore the challenges that the course developers are meeting in the design process.