An Investigation of Mother Tongue Influence on EFL Learners during their Speaking Performance

Fitriani, Naria; Zulkarnain, Said Iskandar

doi:10.35307/saltel.v2i2.29

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“…The effects of using their mother tongue do not indicate a positive outcome of their ability to speak in English. Similar results were also tabulated by research conducted by Fitriani and Zulkarnain (2019), whereby the students' mother tongue influences the students' performance when speaking English. This happens because the student's mother tongue interrupts the student's English articulation, and they are more likely to make mistakes when conversing in the English language.…”

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The Effects of Mother Tongue Interference among ESL Learners’ Speaking Skills

Irene,

Sathasivam,

et al. 2023

IJARBSS

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This study is on the effects of mother tongue interference among ESL learners' speaking skills. This study investigates mother tongue interference in speaking skills among ESL learners and identifies challenges ESL learners face in acquiring speaking skills. The methodology includes both quantitative and qualitative methods. A questionnaire survey was conducted among the students from a high school in the Kinta valley district. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 23 for statistical analysis. A semi-structured interview was conducted to identify the challenges high school students face. The findings revealed that there is evidence of interference of the mother tongue on their speaking skills. Students faced several challenges, such as a lack of vocabulary knowledge and limited exposure to speaking the language. Hence, these findings will assist ESL instructors in a multilingual environment. The study recommends that future researchers use a bigger sampling size to see if mother tongue interference affects other skills.

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Section: Interview 2 Excerpt S2: "I Am Not Able To Do Proper Sentence...supporting

confidence: 80%

The Effects of Mother Tongue Interference among ESL Learners’ Speaking Skills

Irene,

Sathasivam,

et al. 2023

IJARBSS

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“…As per what Kelleher believed, learning the target language requires a strong foundation in one's mother tongue. Rather than emphasizing the negative effect of mother language in the learning process, he acknowledged that it plays a constructive role (Fitriani & Zulkarnain, 2019). For instance, when listening to actors who come from China or India but speaks in English in the film, listeners can directly see the difference in the pronunciation.…”

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Learners’ Problems in Transcribing Words in Connected Speech

Silalahi

2022

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This study is intended to investigate the difficulties encountered by the students of English department in transcribing words in connected speech where assimilation occurs. The assimilation investigated is limited to alveolars /t, d, n) to the neighbouring sound palatal /j, k,g/. Pronouncing words in connected speech is one of the problems that show up in learning EFL. The way words are spoken in isolation and in connected speech may differ significantly. Dealt with the difference, there are two questions to answer in this study. Question one is how students transcribe words in connected speech where assimilation occurs; question two is to describe what sound is assimilated to what sound. To answer the question of the study, descriptive qualitative design is applied. Data were collected from 50 students by giving 7 sentences to transcribe where assimilation occurs in a part of the sentences. Students were asked to transcribe the whole sentences and describe what sound has been assimilated to what sound. The result shows that 18 students can transcribe correctly the phonetic transcription of the assimilated sounds and describe what sound is assimilated to what sound. There are 32 students who transcribe the sentences as isolated words and cannot show where assimilation occurs. Thus, there is no description of the assimilation by these students. It leads to say that knowledge of pronouncing words in connected speech is poor. This suggests improvement by giving more practices in pronouncing not only individual words but words in connected speech. Students also need listening exercises to crosscheck the transcription they make while listening.

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An Investigation of Mother Tongue Influence on EFL Learners during their Speaking Performance

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

The Effects of Mother Tongue Interference among ESL Learners’ Speaking Skills

The Effects of Mother Tongue Interference among ESL Learners’ Speaking Skills

Learners’ Problems in Transcribing Words in Connected Speech

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