1. THE FIRST UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE ON ELT, LINGUISTCS, AND LITERATURE 2013 By Engelbertha Maria Serviam Rahamitu

2. Background Findings and Analysis Conclusion 3. Background English as one of worldwide languages People learn English with bringing the interference of their mother tongue Many varieties of English Cause misunderstandings 4. 1.What is mother tongue and how it influence English as a second language? 2. What are the influences in learning English? 5. Findings and Analysis Mother tongue or first language is a term that denotes not only the language one learns from one's mother, but also the speaker's dominant and home language (Nordquist) Influence is a power to sway or affect based on prestige, wealth, ability, or position 6. Learning English or 2LA 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Pre-Production Stage Early Production Stage Speech Emergence Intermediate Fluency Advanced Fluency (Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell, 1983) 7. The Influence of Mother Tongue in Learning English English Sentence Order Pronunciation Spanish and English German French Indonesian : Javanese Bataknesse Papuan 8. English Sentence Order 1. Spanish Felipe llev a la escuela sus libros favorites. If it is translated directly in English it means Felipe took to school his favorite books. In Spanish, a preposition phrase is regularly put in front of a direct object. 9. English Sentence Order 2. German Ich habe meine Reisepasse vergessen translates literally as I have my passport forgotten. In German, infinitives and past participles usually come at the end of the sentence. 10. English Sentence Order 3. French une voiture rouge should not be expressed in English as car red The French learner of English must struggle against the temptation to put attributive adjectives after the noun as they would in their mother tongue. 11. The Influence in English Pronunciation 1. Javanese For example in pronouncing the word useful, where it should be pronounce /ju:sfl/ they will produce it as /ju:sfl/ 12. The Influence in English Pronunciation 1. Bataknese The word find is pronounced /paInd/ where it should be /faInd/ Some people from Sumatra are difficult in pronouncing the /f/ sound 13. The Influence in English Pronunciation 1. Papuan They tend to pronounce the word a book as /ebk/ while it should be /bk/ 14. CONCLUSION People need to expand the knowledge of language like learn more languages and understand the system of the language. 15. It does not matter which accent that you have in producing English as long as your English can be understood, be proud of it. 16. THANK YOU