The ompact of the mother tongue on learning english as a foreign language

Abstract

Since the beginnings of the 20th century linguists shown huge interest to develop foreign language teaching methods, the common aim of these strategies is to limit and reduce the negative impact of issues that might face learners and teachers in order to achieve better acquirement of the target language at the level of the three linguistic skills; reading, writing and especially speaking in which students are struggling from. The present study investigates one of the major issues that faces foreign language students and affects their learning process, it is the use of first language and its impact of it on their learning process in order to understand the major reasons of student’s and teacher’s opinions about this phenomenon and how to deal with it by giving some advanced new methods to make learning effective without that huge impact of the mother tongue.