Influence Of Mother Tongue In English Language

It is found in this research that students don’t have an opinion on the subject and they have vocabulary problems to make the sentence. They are also not able to identify the grammatical rules and perceive the texts. They also have problems of self-expressions and regional or mother tongue influence. They don’t have interest to speak English. In some cases, they don’t even know the correct pronunciation, intonation, stress and the correct use of the language in appropriate context. Many students find difficult to respond when the teacher asks them to share their opinion on something in the second language. To conclude, although many tend to point their fingers towards the teachers’ performance and the teachers blame the learners

V.S. Ramakrishna (2016) and Chintala. Rajesh Kumar (2016), aims to show the mother tongue influence in teaching English as a second language. Besides businessman, engineers, scientist and scholars, everyone must know English because it is the International means of exchange of information and experience. The way English is taught in schools and colleges nowadays is a failure for many students. The way students learn is heavily influenced by the way they are taught (Gao, 1999). The role of mother tongue is an issue that all teaching approaches and methods must address and to some extent their difference position on the issue are influenced by the theories that are behind those approaches and methods (McLaughlin, 1986). Second language teaching will centre round three major approaches namely Traditional Approach, Communicative Approach and Behavioural Approach. Any discussion of teaching English as a second language will almost certainly start from the grammar translation method, because it was a dominant method in second language teaching (Brown, 1987). The heavy use of the mother tongue w often lead to grammar translation method. Next is the behavioural approach. Language learning is essentially a process of habit formation, and the output is directly determined by the input, therefore, this “input” should exclude any involvement of the mother tongue,