Babkina, V. (2018). Phonological interference of mother tongue over the English

Justification of the study 
 
The issue of pronunciation in TEFL has always attracted much 
interest. Undoubtedly, any contribution to teaching and learning English 
pronunciation can be beneficial. As for the present study, the principal 

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advantage of it is that it is dedicated to the problem of phonological 
interference of the mother tongue within the context of consonant sounds 
pronunciation among Peruvian EFL learners.
It has appeared to be an issue since the topic of pronunciation is not 
being paid enough attention to. Most of the time Peruvian learners are not 
informed, not consciously aware of the consequences of unintelligible 
pronunciation of the English language sounds (precisely referred to this 
investigation). Therefore, the importance of the study lies not only in 
helping participants to improve their pronunciation which is negatively 
influenced by their mother tongue, but also in catering for their 
awareness of the significance of proper pronunciation and transmission 
of a meaningful message.
This work has been a great opportunity for the researcher of the 
paper as a native speaker of the Russian language to investigate about the 
most typical cases of phonological interference that Peruvian learners 
usually deal with and help the learners improve their pronunciation 
proficiency.
Finally, the results of the research motivated the author of the paper 
to proceed with the study since there is a lot of room for improvement as 
a foreign language teacher. Hopefully, the present investigation will 
encourage other teachers of English to pay more attention to the 
pronunciation issues that Peruvian learners usually encounter.
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Limitations of the study 
 
Even though the present study was fully complete, there were some 
limitations during the process of the investigation.
1) There are a lot of researches dedicated to the problem of mother 
tongue interference on the pronunciation of the English language aspects, 
however, there are only few studies related to the issue of negative 
interference among Peruvian learners. It is known that there are variants 
of Spanish language in Spain and Latin America, and each variant has 
some peculiarities in pronunciation. It is important for an English teacher 
to be aware of these L1 peculiarities in order to be able to provide EFL 
learners with appropriate L2 pronunciation instruction, techniques and 

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activities. As a consequence, this paper is an attempt to complement the 
existing researches in the sphere of native language influence among 
Peruvian learners and widen the reservoir of some practical and 
instructional advice on the matter.
2) Time adjustment was the main inconvenience during the process 
of the given investigation. Following the university syllabus was a must, 
for that reason the researcher had to incorporate the time for the 
intervention into each academic hour according to the institution 
programme. Therefore, in order to fulfill the intervention part of the 
investigation, it was necessary to manage the timeframe of each English 
lesson to comply with the university programme. Besides that, constant 
absence from classes of some participants from both control and sample 
groups also caused inconvenience in performing the investigation. These