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.
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.
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