The interference of the mother tongue in the writing skills of the grade 10 students at Tinh Gia 2 upper secondary school = Ảnh hưởng của tiếng mẹ đối với kỹ năng viết của học sinh lớp 10 tại Trường THPT Tĩnh Gia 2. M.A Thesis Linguistics: 60 14 10

Abstract

The second language learners’ native language has made its permanent home in their mind, resulting in the negative transfer to the learners’ own language to the target language. This study aims at investigating writing grammtical errors that students at Tinh Gia 2 Upper Secondary School often commit, carefully identifying one of the causes (Mother tongue interference) of the errors that the students often make and working out suitable adjustments on writing teaching strategies at Tinh Gia2 Upper Secondary School. The tests of 182 grade 10 students at Tinh Gia 2 Upper Secondary School were studied as sources for collecting interference errors. Through the qualitative analyzed data, the findings clarified the five most frequent grammatical errors committed by the students and indicated that the MT interferes with the students’ errors more than other causes. Based on the findings, recommendations for dealing with the first language interference and for enhancing the teaching of EFL writing were put forward. The conclusion supported the systematicity of Vietnamese transfer in English writing paragraphs or essays of students in non-native speaking environment and summarized the possible measures to reduce this interference phenomenon.