Influence of Mother Tongue on Learning English as a Foreign Language

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the Influence of mother tongue on learning English language as a foreign language. Also the study addresses the role of [MT] in saving lesson time and teacher effort. The study adopts the descriptive analytic method for a data collected through a questionnaire, and the sample includes [50] students at Assalama secondary school in Jabal Awlia locality, and the data has been statistically analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences [SPSS] programme. The finding generally indicate that mother tongue achieve students satisfaction and makes them more confortable and more connected to the lesson content. Also mother tongue [MT] can enable students to participate in classroom discourse. In addition to it helps students to memorize words, idioms, grammar, and sentence structures.