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.