Grammatical Interference in the Speech of Azerbaijan Students

Abstract

Keywords: interference, grammatical interference, bilingualism, language interaction, source language, target language.

Annotation: learning foreign languages is a growing need of hour in this age of globalization.  In the multilingual Azerbaijani society English is becoming a second language, as a teacher our aim is to help the students to overcome the problems which the students encounter while mastering the language. When learning a second language the students rely on the structure of their native language for producing utterances in English, and this can be helpful or detrimental. Their use of the mother tongue may have a positive or negative impact on their learning of the foreign language. The influence of students’ native language, on how easy or difficult is the acquisition of the foreign language, all lies in the process through which the students go through while learning. The aim of the article is to disclose the essence of the notion of “interference”, to describe its types and analyse interference in the speech of the Azerbaijani students in the sphere of grammar.