“Morphosyntactic analysis: interference of mother tongue in efl language classrooms”

Mastering a second language requires a lot of effort and includes showing a certain level of structural accuracy and communicative potential when writing. However, EFL learners often face challenges in achieving this because of the difference in structures between their mother tongue (L1) and the second language (L2) to be learned. Therefore, such a phenomenon can interfere either positively or negatively with the learning process. This study aims to analyze the L1 interference (Spanish) in the morphosyntax of the L2 (English) in order to discover to what extent communicative processes are affected. The methodology applied was qualitative-descriptive. The participants were 36 students from the first level of English Major at the Technical University of Cotopaxi in the April-August 2022 academic period. The data collection instruments were a Pre-Intermediate (A2) descriptive text and a Spanish-English translation activity. From the data analysis, the researchers found seven types of errors that cause ungrammatical sentences. These errors were (1) word order, (2) omission, (3) addition, (4) substitution, (5) subject-verb agreement, and (6) plurality, which are the main categories of this study. Additionally, errors were found in (7) mechanics which are out of the scope of this study. It was concluded that L1 interference significantly affects L2 communicative processes since the errors found in this study inferred the conventions of the grammatical dimension.

• 主要作者: Chanaluisa Taipe, Silvia Lizbeth (author)
• 其他作者: Pinta Claudio, Lesly Johana (author)
• 格式: bachelorThesis
• 语言: eng
• 出版: 2023
• 主题: LENGUA MATERNA; ANÁLISIS DE ERRORES; LENGUA EXTRANJERA; INGLÉS
• 在线阅读: http://repositorio.utc.edu.ec/handle/27000/9865