Open AccessExploring the Influence of Teachers' and Students' Mother Tongue on the Use of National Language in L2 Teaching/Learning
Author(s) -
Muhammad Ahsan,
Muhammad Saeed Nasir,
Tahira Asgher
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
global educational studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-3608
pISSN - 2708-2113
DOI - 10.31703/gesr.2021(vi-i).16
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , psychology , graduation (instrument) , mathematics education , first language , descriptive statistics , data collection , aptitude , statistical analysis , test (biology) , pedagogy , developmental psychology , sociology , mathematics , medicine , psychometrics , social science , paleontology , statistics , geometry , pathology , biology
The purpose of the current study was to explore the influence of teachers' and students' mother tongue on the use of national language in L2 teaching and learning. For a comprehensive understanding of the issue, the study focused on 156 teachers and the 577 students who were teaching and learning English at graduation level in different public sector colleges and universities of Southern Punjab. Two questionnaires were used for data collection. The data were analyzed through SPSS (statistical package for social sciences). Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), T-Test and Cronbach's alpha. The results of the study indicated that the teachers who have Saraiki as their mother tongue have a high inclination toward the use of it in their classroom setting due to the socio-cultural factor such as their multilingual aptitude and their emotional attachment with their mother tongue.