Volume 78

As demand for English as a Second Language grows globally, learners face native language interference, limited phonetic perception, and scarce resources, hence posing key barriers to intelligibility and cross-cultural communication. This study explores the types, causes, diagnosis, and intervention of English pronunciation errors across different native language backgrounds backgrounds, and examines intelligent technologies for personalized correction. By reviewing and analyzing relevant literature, this study summarizes research progress and current teaching practices in second language pronunciation errors. The results demonstrates that traditional teacher-dependent correction methods are limited by delayed feedback and insufficient support for individual differences, whereas emerging technologies such as acoustic analysis, virtual reality, biofeedback, and AI offer feasible approaches for real-time visual diagnosis and targeted correction, thus enhancing learners’ pronunciation accuracy and speech fluency. This paper further points out that future ESL pronunciation teaching needs to deepen the integration of linguistic theory and technological tools, and build a multimodal and sustainable pronunciation correction ecosystem, to better meet the cross-cultural communication needs of different learners.

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As a composite text of ancient Chinese geography and mythology, the Classic of Mountains and Seas combines mythical elements with early geographical knowledge, reflecting the ancient people’s exploration and imagination of the world. This study adopts a literary and mythological research perspective, combining textual analysis, interdisciplinary research, and case study methods to explore the transmission and evolution of geographical names in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It analyzes how mythological geography transitions into actual geography and reveals the shifts in geographical perspectives reflected in this process. The study found that the geographical descriptions in the Classic of Mountains and Seas were constructed by ancient people on the basis of limited knowledge, using mythical imagination to create a "pseudo-real" geographical system. Its evolutionary process reflects a cognitive transformation from mystification to rationalization. The evolution of typical place names such as Kunlun Mountain and Kongtong Mountain reveals the transformation of ancient geographical perspectives from the myth of the "center of the world" to the reality of "diverse yet unified" geography, reflecting the historical process of cultural exchange and expansion.

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