The Interference of Mother Tongue - Part 3

Greeting, fellas.

Today's topic from my series of journal review will revolve around response from interview-method which was being used by the author of the journal.

Title: 

The Interference of Mother Tongue/Native Language 

in One’s English Language Speech Production

Author:

Ashairi Suliman 

(Research Scholar, Faculty of Education, 

National University of Malaysia (UKM))

ISSN: 

2278-4012

Volume:3, Issue:3, July 2014

Response from Interview Session

From the interview session, it was revealed that the hardest part of English language is speaking or producing speech. Some reasons that are revealed in this interview, according to those students are: "I often mispronounce words and not confident in speaking", "Speaking is difficult because I do not know many words", "I am not used to speaking in English" and "Because it is hard and difficult to identify which word should be used". When those students were asked on what problem they face in speaking English, the answer they gave were: "To translate from Bahasa Melayu to English", "Less on vocab and don't know to describe something", "I not good in looking words in English. This makes me difficult to speak in English", "I not know things in English", "Hard to pronounce the difficult words and cannot speak well" and "Arranging words when speaking English".

Towards the end of the interview, those students were asked on which language is more important between English and Melayu. 8 out of 16 students said that English is more important, and when those students who said English is more important were asked what is their preferred language, only 2 out of 8 prefer English, their reasons were "English is the worldwide that is used nowadays" and "English always be used when we go out from our own country and also important in Science subject".

During the interview, it was noted that the students had difficulties in giving their responses in English. Most of them responded in Bahasa Melayu before translating their responses in English. It was also noted that most of them gave short response. This might be due to the incompetency they have in English language, apart from being uncomfortable giving response in English language.

The Interference of Mother Tongue - Part 2

Greeting, fellas.

Today I will continue my review on an international journal I've chose earlier, this will be the second part from this journal review. In this part, I'd like to write down the method that has been used by the author of the journal, it is not a mathematical method and does not involve counting or number, rather an information-based research using interview and question-answer method. Before jumping off to the methodology, I write a definition of mother language from the original journal.

Title: 

The Interference of Mother Tongue/Native Language 

in One’s English Language Speech Production

Author:

Ashairi Suliman 

(Research Scholar, Faculty of Education, 

National University of Malaysia (UKM))

ISSN: 

2278-4012

Volume:3, Issue:3, July 2014

Mother language can enable students' understanding of the concepts, lexical or grammatical or academic terms (Nguyen, 2012). With that being said, mother tongue is the language in which the individual is most familiar with and has been used for the longest period of time.

Methodology

The design of language study is qualitative in nature. Qualitative research does not involve counting and dealing with numbers, but it is based on information expressed in words - descriptions, accounts, opinions, feelings, etc (Williman, 2006). This study purposive sampling, where the researcher deliberately select subjects who belong to specific group (Holmes, Dahan & Ashari, 2008).

The author of this journal has used 16 forms and involved 4 student which belong from 2 rural area's secondary school, whom English is considered as their third language. The study employs observation on students' speech production, which was delivered in three minutes and it will function as the secondary data, supporting the information obtained from the observation. The questions were based on the research questions derived earlier. The responses from the interview would support the findings from observation.