THE ROLE OF MOTHER TONGUE IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

Many years has passed since people were getting interested in acquiring foreign

languages. As 21st century is the period of globalization, attention to learning

languages is developing year by year and various opportunities are being created in

order to learn foreign language easily. This time and age, almost all people are trying to acquire at least one foreign language for different targets such as education ,business or just for their interests. In last two decades, there were done lots of researches on how to teach languages, its methods and approaches and different effective ways but there was little investigation on the role of mother tongue in second language acquisition.