MOTHER TONGUE INFLUENCE IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF THE ENGLISH SEGMENTAL PHONEMES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OTUKPO LGA

📄 Project Abstract

The use of language for verbal communication is what basically differentiates man from the lower animals. In most speech communities, language acquisition begins with the mother tongue. The mother tongue is often conceived as the first language of the child's parents. Thus, the child usually acquires the mother tongue before being introduced to the learning of a second language. The learning of any language usually takes cognizance of the phonetic system of the language. This is often identified as the segmental phonemes, made up of the vowel and consonant sound segments. The composition and distribution of the segmental phonemes may however differ from language to language. Studies have revealed that the acquisition of the mother tongue by the child is very crucial because often times it is used as a resource for the learning of a second language. Since the phonological systems of any two languages are never the same, however, the second language learner may take to substituting some ...