VIETNAM NATIONAT, UNIVERSITY, HANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES, AAS ic dorfok bit. bitl4EESPbdeE HOÀNG THỊ THÊM THE INTERFERENCE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE IN THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS’ ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION AT THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Ảnh hướng của tiếng mẹ để đến phát âm Tiếng Anh của sinh viên nãm thứ nhất Trưởng Đại học Kỹ thuật Công nghiệp Thái Nguyên M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS: FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60140111 Tlanoi, 2014 VIETNAM NATIONAT, UNIVERSITY, HANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES, AAS ic dorfok bit. bitl4EESPbdeE HOÀNG THỊ THÊM THE INTERFERENCE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE IN THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS’ ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION AT THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Ảnh hướng của tiếng mẹ để đến phát âm Tiếng Anh của sinh viên nãm thứ nhất Trưởng Đại học Kỹ thuật Công nghiệp Thái Nguyên M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS: FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60140111 SUPERVISOR: HA CAM TAM, PhD. Hanoi, 2014 DECLARATION 1, Hoàng ‘Thi ‘ham, hereby certify that this minor thesis entitled THE INFLUENCE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE ON THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS’ ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION AT THAT NGUYEN: UNIVERSETY OF TECHNOLOGY is completely the result of my own word for the Degree of Master at University of Languages and Intemational Studies, Vielzain National Universily, Hanoi and dual this thesis has not been submitted for any degree at any other university or instilaition.
Signature Hoang Thi Thêm PART A: INTRODUCTION 4. Rationale of the study Language plays a very important role in communication. People all over the world can communicate with each other by speech or writing that are the twe primary modes of linguistic comromication. In a speech communication situation, a speaker always tries to make him/ her understood and interested.
What makes people understood and interested in one’s English is firstly his! hor prommeiation. Pronunciation is definitely the biggest thing that poopls notice when you are speaking English. A person can express his idea with simple words and simple grammar, but there is no such thing as simple pronunciation Losming a lamguage consists of learning its vocabulary, grammar and prommeiation. Leamers with good pronunciation are likely to be understood even if they make mistakes in other area, whereas leamers with bad prommeciation will not be understood, even if their grammar is perftct, In fact, pronunciation is becoming incrcasingly recognized as a crucial arca for Janguage learners (Celee-Mureia et al, 1996) All learners know the iimporlance of promunciation, Tlowever, they find il difficull to acquire an accent which is intelligible.
One of those difficulties is caused by the interference of their mother tongue in thir language leaming because each language has iis own rules and phonetic system which may cause a tol of obstacles to leamers in prac sing and porforming them corrcelly In their book, Avery and Ehilich (1992) show the reason why speakers of English are able to recognize Spanish accents, Russian accents, Chinese accents. ‘I'hat is because the nature of a forcign accent is delerminedte a large extentby a learner's native language Like any learners of English, Vietnamese leamers are coping with so many difficulties in pronouncing English because of the mother tongue interference. Vietnamese and English differ a great deal, but Victnamesc students often transfer sound pattcins of Vietnamese into English, that makes their pronunciation imperfect and unintelligible. As a teacher of English, 1 can see mistakes that students at NUT have made im producing sounds.
Tharsfore, T would like to conduct this Tasearch ta point out how ‘Vietnamese affects students’ English pronunciation and make some corresponding improvements. ‘Those are the reasons why 1 decide to do a research entitied: “I'he ii ABSTRACT ‘The research in this minor thesis was carried out to investigate whether the amother Longue influences students’ English promuneialion al Thai Nguyen University of Technology. It sought the answers to the following questions: 1, What are pronunciation mistakes made by students at Thai Nguyen University of Technology? 2. Are they caused by mother tongue influences? The study was conducted with two classes (A971, 4911) consisting of 100 students im (heir second term.
The dala of the study were oblained using 2 research instruments: class observation and recording. After that the data was analyzed and the findings of the research revealed that Vietnamese has influences on the first year siudents" English pronuneialion al Thai Nguyen University of Teclmology. At the end of the research, the researcher proposed some suggestions to improve students’ pronunciation 2.1 Setting of the study. SE HH HH 20 1g are, 2.3 Data collection instruments 2.4 Data collection provedures, 2.
Findings and discussion. Description on the three most frequent types ofmistakes. Data analysis and dis USBIOH 2.1, Mistakes in omission of sounds. Mistakes in sound replacement.
Mistakes in consonant. Major findings of the study 2 Implications 3. Limitations of the study. Suggestions for further study REFERENCES.
AAPPENDICI PART A: INTRODUCTION 4. Rationale of the study Language plays a very important role in communication. People all over the world can communicate with each other by speech or writing that are the twe primary modes of linguistic comromication. In a speech communication situation, a speaker always tries to make him/ her understood and interested.
What makes people understood and interested in one’s English is firstly his! hor prommeiation. Pronunciation is definitely the biggest thing that poopls notice when you are speaking English. A person can express his idea with simple words and simple grammar, but there is no such thing as simple pronunciation Losming a lamguage consists of learning its vocabulary, grammar and prommeiation. Leamers with good pronunciation are likely to be understood even if they make mistakes in other area, whereas leamers with bad prommeciation will not be understood, even if their grammar is perftct, In fact, pronunciation is becoming incrcasingly recognized as a crucial arca for Janguage learners (Celee-Mureia et al, 1996) All learners know the iimporlance of promunciation, Tlowever, they find il difficull to acquire an accent which is intelligible.
One of those difficulties is caused by the interference of their mother tongue in thir language leaming because each language has iis own rules and phonetic system which may cause a tol of obstacles to leamers in prac sing and porforming them corrcelly In their book, Avery and Ehilich (1992) show the reason why speakers of English are able to recognize Spanish accents, Russian accents, Chinese accents. ‘I'hat is because the nature of a forcign accent is delerminedte a large extentby a learner's native language Like any learners of English, Vietnamese leamers are coping with so many difficulties in pronouncing English because of the mother tongue interference. Vietnamese and English differ a great deal, but Victnamesc students often transfer sound pattcins of Vietnamese into English, that makes their pronunciation imperfect and unintelligible. As a teacher of English, 1 can see mistakes that students at NUT have made im producing sounds.
Tharsfore, T would like to conduct this Tasearch ta point out how ‘Vietnamese affects students’ English pronunciation and make some corresponding improvements. ‘Those are the reasons why 1 decide to do a research entitied: “I'he TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Declaration - - - i. ôn ốốốốố ốc iii List of tables and figures - - - Ww 'Table oŸ Conterlfs. cà cách or oY Part A: Introduction.
Ralionale of the study. Objectives of the studÿ. Research questions of the study. Scape of the study - - - - - 2 5.
Methods of the study. Organization af the study - - - 3 Part B: Development. 4 Chapter 1: Literalture review. The interference of the mother longue in foreign languages: 4 1.
Definition of the mother tongue and foreign languages. The interference of the mother tongue in foreign languages. English pronmeialion - 3 bà ng.4, Review of Previous studies. cece ices cess ieeeeenns ceases —.- Chapter2: The study 15 2.
- - - - - 15 interference of the mother tongue in the first year students” Lnglish pronunciation at 'Phai Nguyen Univer ty of Teclmology. Objectives of the study “The objectives of this study are stated as follows: + To discover pronunciation mistakes made by students al Thai Nguyen University of Technology. - ‘Yo investigate whether the causes of the mistakes come fiom students’ mother longue, 3. Research questions of the study: ‘Yo achieve the aims mentioned above, this study tries to answer the following questions: 1, What are pronunciation mistakes made by students at Thai Neuyen University of Technology? 2.
Are they caused by mother tongue influences? 4. Scope of the study ‘The study was carried out with two classes (491, 49H) comprising 100 students in their second term, the acadernic year 2013-2014. In this thesis, the interference of the mother tongue in pronuneiation is dealt with, bot the study cannot cover all the problems related to pronunciation, this study only focuses on the mother tongue inlerference in praducing English sounds. Methods of the study ‘A combination of different data collection methods were used including recording students’ pronunciation in an oral test, observing their performance in class and note-taking 6.
Organization of the study The thesis consists of three parts: introduction, development with three chapters and conclusion. Part A: Introduction presents the rationale, aims, research questions, and organization of the study. Part B: Development includes three main chapters, Chapter | Literature review provides a brief literature review relevant to the study. In this chapter, section 1 discusses the interference of the mother tongue in foreign interference of the mother tongue in the first year students” Lnglish pronunciation at 'Phai Nguyen Univer ty of Teclmology.
Objectives of the study “The objectives of this study are stated as follows: + To discover pronunciation mistakes made by students al Thai Nguyen University of Technology. - ‘Yo investigate whether the causes of the mistakes come fiom students’ mother longue, 3. Research questions of the study: ‘Yo achieve the aims mentioned above, this study tries to answer the following questions: 1, What are pronunciation mistakes made by students at Thai Neuyen University of Technology? 2. Are they caused by mother tongue influences? 4.
Scope of the study ‘The study was carried out with two classes (491, 49H) comprising 100 students in their second term, the acadernic year 2013-2014. In this thesis, the interference of the mother tongue in pronuneiation is dealt with, bot the study cannot cover all the problems related to pronunciation, this study only focuses on the mother tongue inlerference in praducing English sounds. Methods of the study ‘A combination of different data collection methods were used including recording students’ pronunciation in an oral test, observing their performance in class and note-taking 6. Organization of the study The thesis consists of three parts: introduction, development with three chapters and conclusion.
Part A: Introduction presents the rationale, aims, research questions, and organization of the study. Part B: Development includes three main chapters, Chapter | Literature review provides a brief literature review relevant to the study. In this chapter, section 1 discusses the interference of the mother tongue in foreign ii ABSTRACT ‘The research in this minor thesis was carried out to investigate whether the amother Longue influences students’ English promuneialion al Thai Nguyen University of Technology. It sought the answers to the following questions: 1, What are pronunciation mistakes made by students at Thai Nguyen University of Technology? 2.
Are they caused by mother tongue influences? The study was conducted with two classes (A971, 4911) consisting of 100 students im (heir second term. The dala of the study were oblained using 2 research instruments: class observation and recording. After that the data was analyzed and the findings of the research revealed that Vietnamese has influences on the first year siudents" English pronuneialion al Thai Nguyen University of Teclmology. At the end of the research, the researcher proposed some suggestions to improve students’ pronunciation 2.1 Setting of the study.
SE HH HH 20 1g are, 2.3 Data collection instruments 2.4 Data collection provedures, 2. Findings and discussion .