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

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RECOMMENDATIONS 
The following recommendations for further studies were stated: 
1) In order to achieve more reasonable results in pronunciation 
improvement, it is important to consider both segmental and 
suprasegmental aspects of the language. The combination of both in the 
classroom caters for better outcomes and therefore leads to the 
fulfillment of the goals of communicative approach.
2) Raising foreign language teachers’ awareness about the 
importance of the issue of phonological interference of a mother tongue 
over L2 pronunciation and providing them with necessary training would 
be quite useful. It could cater for their own pronunciation improvement 
and, as a result, could provide the possibility to help learners make 
progress in dealing with L1 interference. 
3) Further studies can be related to the phenomenon of 
phonological interference from the point of view of such factors as age, 
the level of language proficiency, exposure to the target language in 
order to identify the dependence of this phenomenon on one of the 
factors.
4) The cases 2 and 4 of phonological interference not included in 
the intervention can be the subject for future investigation. These cases 
along with the other 7 cases were highlighted in the research as some of 
the most typical cases of phonological interference of the Spanish 

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language of Peruvian variant, therefore, Case 2 and Case 4 deserve to be 
further studied and analysed.
5) The present study was conducted with the group of learners with 
the level of linguistic proficiency from A2 to B1 (Common European 
Framework of References), it is possible to state that every participant of 
the investigation faced the mentioned problem. The issue of phonological 
interference of a mother tongue over the L2 pronunciation takes place 
among Peruvian EFL learners regardless of their level of linguistic 
proficiency.
Therefore, further investigations can be dedicated to the extent of 
phonological interference of L1 over the L2 pronunciation among 
Peruvian learners in the context of the participants with more advanced 
levels of linguistic proficiency. Moreover, the research can embrace 
different aspects of pronunciation. All in all, the expanse for further 
studies is broad.

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