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1、1On the Influence of Mother Tongue in Language LearningHu FeiAbstract: People learn English as their foreign language in China. As we know, the foreign language learners are developing their second language (English) competence and performance based on their previous knowledge of mother tongue (Chin
2、ese). To a large extent, English is different from Chinese in many ways, such as pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Therefore, the learners have to face the potential influence of their mother tongue in their foreign language learning. Generally speaking, there are positive impact and negative i
3、mpact of mother tongue in foreign language learning. Through discussing the two kinds of effects, the purpose of this paper is to help the teachers and students find the most effective way to study foreign language and get success of foreign language learning.Key words: influence; mother tongue; for
4、eign language learning; students; teachersI. IntroductionAs we all know, the mother tongue is our first language. And there are two meanings to the mother tongue. The first is that mother tongue is ones native language. And the second is that mother tongue is a parent language. A Chinese people will
5、 use mother tongue more or less in foreign language learning. The adults regard the mother tongue as the foundation of foreign language learning. Nowadays, thousands of students and teachers still use mother tongue in foreign language learning, especially in lots of poor and distant countries. If th
6、e teachers use English to have a class to primary school students or high school students in the rural areas, they will not understand the teachers meanings. However, according to education departments requirement, most of teachers should use English to have a class in many developed areas or cities
7、. Some researches prove that when the teachers try their best to use English in the classroom, it is good for improving students English level or adding their English knowledge. Language learning refers to conscious knowledge of a second language, knowing the rules, being aware of them and being abl
8、e to talk about them. With the development of the society and economy, it is becoming more and more important for us to master one or more foreign languages. And the growing number of people has recognized the importance and began to learn foreign language. However, foreign language learning is very
9、 complex and painstaking process. In foreign language learning, there are always problems arising here and there. During learning foreign language, maybe some factors affect the achievement and success of foreign language learning. Such as, mother tongue of learners, personal factors of learners and
10、 the environment factors. Among them, the mother tongue of learners has the major influence on the foreign language learning. Generally speaking, learners develop their 2foreign language competence and performance based on their mother tongue. The mother tongue has positive and negative impacts on f
11、oreign language learning. And the positive effect has three aspects, namely, increasing the understanding, raising the interest, improving the translation level. And then the negative effect includes pronunciation; vocabulary and grammar. At the same time, different nations have different cultures a
12、nd customs. So the cultures and customs also have an influence on the communicational ways. In my paper, I will introduce briefly the positive effect and negative effect of mother tongue in foreign language learning. At the same time, my paper mainly tells the English teachers and students to how to
13、 make use of the positive effects and reduce the negative effects of the mother tongue, thus to achieve good and efficient teaching effect. II. The classification of the influence of mother tongueThe impact of mother tongue is mainly classified into two types, the positive impact and the negative im
14、pact. As we know, when mother tongues rules are similar to the foreign languages rules, it will produce positive impact. So it is able to help students study the foreign language well. Therefore, the English teacher can make use of the good chance to let students master a number of ways of learning
15、English. At the moment, the students will combine their mother tongue with the foreign language, because the mother tongue provides them a lot of help. However, if the mother tongues rules are different from the foreign language, it will produce negative impact. It will bring some difficulties to le
16、arn the foreign language. In this case, the English teachers should try their best to think about some useful and efficient ways to reduce the negative impact. The students and teachers ought to take the advantages of mother tongue, and find some solutions to decrease the disadvantages in foreign language learning.III. The influence of mother tongue in foreign language learningA. The positive effect of mother tongueThe countrys education departments claim that foreign language learn
