The Use of Mother Tongue in Second Language Teaching

This paper explores the specific application of mother tongue in Second Language learning from the perspective of class management, introducing learning methods, teaching vocabulary, teaching grammar, dealing with exercises and testing,and cooperation among students. It is concluded that mother tongue should be properly used in Second Language Teaching in order to improve the teaching of second language.

Local Languages and Character Building: A Study on the Contribution of Mother Tongue to the Formation of Human Character

The research aims to examine how ancestor language contributed to character building and to explore some ways to protecting local languages from death. Questionnaires and an interview were used to gather information from students and teachers at Institut Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (IKIP) Mataram. Qualitative information also came from documents and some were derived from language theories. Analysis indicated that the formation of character education should consider local language as its component part;the cooperation of mother tongue into character education could be of assistance to preserving local languages from disappearance. The study was restricted to a small scale research and the analysis was developed within the context of IKIP Mataram. The findings would help to have a better understanding of the significance of mother tongue in character formation, to recommend character education as model of future education. The study was originally based on the primary information and had never been sent for publication. The results could be of benefit to those who are of interest to research into teaching.

Children’s Learning Mother Tongue Versus Foreign Language Teaching

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The Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue in Vocabulary of Non-English Majors in Vocational Colleges

The transfer of mother tongue has always been influencing students in second language acquisition.This paper attempts to analyze the negative transfer in vocabulary of non-English majors in vocational colleges and briefly proposes some strategies to reduce the negative transfer of mother tongue.

Some Differences Between English and Chinese and the Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue in EFL Learning

The paper discusses 3 significant differences between Chinese and English. It proposes that because of the differences, the transfer of mother tongue into the target language tends to appear in the negative form. The negative transfer of Chinese into English is the major cause of the so-called Chinglish. The paper states some forms of the negative transfer.

一部挑战翻译理论传统原则的学术新作——读Challenging the Traditional Axioms: Translation into a Non-Mother Tongue一书

翻译研究界一般认为译者只能译为其母语,即译者只能进行直接翻译,而译为非母语即逆向翻译则饱受责难。在Challenging the Traditional Axioms:Translation into a Non-Mother Tongue一书中,作者博康以理论分析、语料分析与问卷调查的方式,挑战了"译者只能译为其母语"的传统观念,指出这种观念所赖以生存的"母语"与"本族语者"两个概念的不客观性与非确定性,梳理了翻译理论中与逆向翻译相关的种种观点。此外,博康运用语料分析与问卷调查的方法,指出翻译界种种传统假定的片面性,并论证了"译为非母语"的可行性。

A Brief Introduction to the Impact of the Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue on International Business Letter Writing and Countermeasures

Due to the impact of the negative transfer of mother tongue,students often think in their mother tongue when they write international business letters.Consequently,they may have difficulties communicating with the intended customers.In a bid to improve students'skills in international business letter writing,this article analyzes the impact of the negative transfer from three aspects:the word order in English,the position of modifiers and the use of conjunctions.

English Phonetics Problems under the Chinese Mother-tongue and Dialect Cultures and its Countermeasures

Many people do believe that the pronunciation just related to the phonetic transcription, if we can master it, then we have good pronunciation. However, during the process of language study, we can found that the phonetics is affected by many factors. The consonants problems or vowels problems or during the process of learning, their phonetics is also affected by their mother tongue and local dialect.

A Study of the Relationship between L2 Proficiency and Mother-tongue-reliance Strategies

By investigating the types of 371 non-English major freshmen's use of mother-tongue-reliance strategies in English languagelearning,the study showed that students' use of mother-tongue-reliance strategies would vary significantly with their different L2 profi-ciency.And it was negatively correlated with L2 proficiency.And the study discussed the implications to guide English language teach-ing and learning.

Our Mother Tongue and Its Culture in English Learning

This essay will try to discuss the role that our mother tongue and its culture play in English acquisition from the perspectives of language of psychology and intercultural communication.

Error and the Mother Tongue

This papar discusses the errors made by students out of the mother tongue interference in their English learning process and analyze the reasons for errors,which is regarded as a useful method for language teaching.

Give Full Play to Foreign Teachers' Mother Tongue Promote A Variety of Teaching Activities

本文从教学的角度总结了我系聘请外籍教师任教以来的教学工作,分析了本族语教师教授英语的优势,客观上对学生产生的影响,我们必须利用外籍教师的母语优势,合理安排课程,给他们提供必需的人力和物力,开展多种教学活动;必须加强中外教师的合作,互相学习,交流经验,共同开展课外活动,巩固课内教学效果,挖掘外教的潜力,以达到提高英语教学水平的目的。

A Study on Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue in English Majors' Writings

Based on the Error Analysis theory and Contrastive Analysis theory,this thesis aims to investigate the phenomenon of negative transfer of mother tongue at the levels of substance,lexis and syntax by taking advantage of quantitative analysis method,and an attempt is made to analyze and classify writing errors in L2 writings by English majors.Anyhow,it is hoped that current research can achieve the purpose of avoiding the negative transfer of mother tongue and to improve English majors’writing capability accordingly.

The Melodramatic Narrative and Ontological Quest in Demetria Martinez＇s Mother Tongue

The study deals with Demetria Martinez＇s Mother Tongue （1994）, which is a love story between a Mexican American woman and a Salvadoran refugee. The female protagonist, Mary, delves into connotations of love, expanding it to understanding of the other. The story deploys politically imbricated religious practices in relation to the U.S. Sanctuary movement in the 80s. Mary＇s amorous encounter with the other leads her to discover the expansion of friendship and solidarity and, ultimately to rediscover religiosity based on reawakened ethics. This study argues that the melodramatic mode employed in this novel implicitly reveals an inherent aspiration for the sacred, albeit not fully representable. The author＇s involvement in the genre of romance and the melodramatic mode ironically attests to her striving for the spiritual ideal and ontological answer. In the end, this essay reveals that drawing on the popular melodramatic narrative, the romantic engagement with the alterity can be more efficiently introduced into the ontological quest for the absolute presence.

Mother Tongue Interference in Japanese Passive Sentence Teaching —— Analysis Based on Functional Grammar

For foreign language learners, whether Chinese people are learning Japanese or Japanese learning Chinese, if they can eliminate the interference of basic knowledge of the mother tongue, the efficiency of foreign language learning will be greatly improved. This paper mainly analyzes the problem of mother tongue interference encountered by Japanese learners who use Chinese as their mother tongue in the study of "passive sentences". It focuses on introducing Japanese functional grammar on the basis of traditional grammar to eliminate these interference problems.

A Study on the Model of Teachers’ Instructional Intervention in Trilingual Teaching Based on the Law of Mother Tongue Acquisition

The research on Trilingual Teaching Model in ethnic areas has become a hot spot.By analyzing the data of the questionnaire,this paper discusses the teachers’instructional intervention model,based on the law of mother tongue acquisition.Trilingual teachers should highlight the role of reading in vocabulary learning and even in improving reading ability.The law of mother tongue acquisition can be one of the main strategies to solve the problems in Tibetan students’English learning.

Positive Transfer of Mother Tongue in Grammar, Writing and Culture of English Teaching in China

Foreign language acquisition is strongly influenced by the learner’s first language and the negative transfer is widely discussed by experts and linguists home and abroad.However,the author here arrives at quite an opposite conclusion that mother tongue,if used appropriately,could have a positive transfer in second language acquision in terms of grammar,writing and culture from her years of teaching experience and experiment.

Relationship between MT(Mother Tongue) and FL(English Learning)

Through four Chapters'analysis,I analyze the relationship between mother tongue and English,the effects of internal factors like age of learners,intellegence and external Factors such as attitudes,and integrative and instrumental motivation on English Learning in order to tell the readers what the aspects are to affect English learning.At the meaning time,the positive and negative roles of Mother Tongue in English Learning are emphasized so as to conclude the importance of mother tomgue learning on English learning.In the end,by having experienced 20 years'English learning and several years'working as an English translator or interpreter,I present my personal ideas about the effects of mother tongue's learning on English learning and also suggest some ways or methods for the English learning beginners during the learning process.

On How Children Acquire Their Mother Tongue -- Explanation of Chomsky＇s Mental Linguistic Theory

Neither structural linguistics nor behaviorist linguistics can explain how children acquire their mother tongue reasonably, so Noam Chomsky founds mental linguistics. According to the theory of the mental linguistics, the essence of language is interior, physical and genetic. Universal Grammar is the foundation of language development and the most essential part of human beings languages.

A Case Study for the Influence of Mother Tongue Transfer in Non-English Majors'Spoken English

In field of Second Language Acquisition, mother tongue has both positive transfer and negative transfer. Using proper foreign language learning strategies can effectively avoid the negative transfer of mother tongue and improve learners' oral English competence. Based on the theories of language transfer, this thesis mainly focuses on, error analysis and inter-language theory. In recent years, more and more scholars have studied the transfer of mother tongue in the field of College English teaching, and the points are also different. However, there is little research on the influence of mother tongue transfer in non English majors' spoken English. This case study chooses a non-English major student as the research object, and analyzes the causes of errors and linguistic categories in spoken English. The motivation of this student for learning spoken English is to attend graduate oral interview and TOEFL. This subject were asked to attend two oral tests and an interview. Through the anglicizing and investigating of the experimental data, the author finds that the errors in spoken English by the student are mainly affected by the negative transfer and negative cultural transfer of mother tongue. The errors of spoken language transfer are mainly reflected in phonetics, vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics. This thesis will focus on three aspects: vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics. The research results also show that the most difficult problem for non English majors in the course of spoken English is the lack of vocabulary. And so it is difficult to express their ideas in English.