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Interference of Mother Tongue While Acquiring English Language in India


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Mother tongue influence is a hindrance while acquiring a second language and it may affect that of another either positively or negatively. Hence, it affects the pronunciation of the language learner. The most significant one is phonology the difference in pronunciation, stress, intonation, etc. The 44 basic sounds of English are to be made familiar to the students. It has been analysed by selecting ten students at random and given ten sentences to read, in order to check whether they could pronounce the sentence correctly according to British English. The students selected for the study had some knowledge in pronunciation, phonetics, etc. It was found out that they did not find any difficulty in placing the stress, but they followed syllable based rhythm, maybe due to the noticed that the Intonation followed by the students was correct to a certain level and that if the words were pronounced correctly then the intonation would flow fluently. A questionnaire was given to the same students to find out the difficulties faced by them in pronouncing English words.

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Communication, Dialect, Phonetics, Phonology, Stress, Intonation, Phoneme, Mother Tongue, Lexicon, Stylistic, Discourse, Rp, Lexical, Acoustic, Auditor V, Pronunciation.
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A. Linda Primlyn
Scott Christian College (Autonomous), Nagercoil-629003, India

Abstract


Mother tongue influence is a hindrance while acquiring a second language and it may affect that of another either positively or negatively. Hence, it affects the pronunciation of the language learner. The most significant one is phonology the difference in pronunciation, stress, intonation, etc. The 44 basic sounds of English are to be made familiar to the students. It has been analysed by selecting ten students at random and given ten sentences to read, in order to check whether they could pronounce the sentence correctly according to British English. The students selected for the study had some knowledge in pronunciation, phonetics, etc. It was found out that they did not find any difficulty in placing the stress, but they followed syllable based rhythm, maybe due to the noticed that the Intonation followed by the students was correct to a certain level and that if the words were pronounced correctly then the intonation would flow fluently. A questionnaire was given to the same students to find out the difficulties faced by them in pronouncing English words.

Keywords


Communication, Dialect, Phonetics, Phonology, Stress, Intonation, Phoneme, Mother Tongue, Lexicon, Stylistic, Discourse, Rp, Lexical, Acoustic, Auditor V, Pronunciation.

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