The Use of Mother Tongue in Teaching English at Primary Level
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Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Kathmandu, Nepal
Abstract
This research work entitled The Use of Mother Tongue in Teaching English
at Primary Level is an attempt to find out the role of using mother tongue for
teaching English. This research also attempts to study the advantages and
disadvantages of using mother tongue in teaching English. The researcher
collected the data by distributing the questionnaires to altogether 20 parents
and 20 teachers from six different primary schools of Taplejung district. The
samples of this data were selected through purposive non- random sampling.
Two sets of questionnaires were used to gather the data. The obtained data
have been analyzed in order to meet the objectives of the study. The major
finding shows that the role of mother tongue in teaching English at primary
level is vital. The teachers used the mother tongue for cultural translation and
breaking the monotony of the students in the classroom. Moreover, it has been
perceived that mother tongue is used to find out the main idea of the text in
shorter time but it hinders to develop communicative competence in the target
language on the part of learners and students become habituated to learn only
through mother tongue even in the great level (i.e. grade 6- 10).
This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is introduction of the
study. The introduction consists of background of the study, statement of the
problem, objectives of the study, significance of the study, delimitations of the
study and operational definition of the key terms. The chapter two deals the
review of theoretical literature that consists of review of theoretical and
empirical literature including conceptual framework. Likewise, the third
chapter of this study consists of the methods and procedures of the study. The
design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data
collection tools, data collection procedures also included in chapter three.
Similarly, the fourth chapter includes the product of the analysis and
interpretation of the data. Furthermore, chapter five includes conclusions and
recommendations made based on the findings. Finally, the references and the
appendixes, which are necessary for the validation of the research, have also
presented.