Problems Of Tamil Learners Of English In Forming Negative And Interrogative Structures
| Autor: | R. Shobana, M. Dinakaran |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.1296418 |
| Popis: | The mistakes which recur in the scripts of the Tamil speakers of English occur in the formation of negative and interrogative structures. Though different methods like Direct, Indirect….etc have been adopted and miscellaneous practices have been exercised, but they are of no avail. The root of the mistakes lies in the absence of the auxiliary verbs in Tamil. For example, the functions of the auxiliary verbs are fulfilled by words like ‘vendum’, ‘kudathu’, ‘.lam’, ‘mudiyum’…etc. But, in English, ‘must’, ‘must not’, ‘may’, ‘can’...etc are indicating the functions like obligation, probability and ability. Similarly, the functions of the be-verbs as auxiliary verbs are indicted by the inflections of the main verbs in Tamil. The paper is focusing on such inflections of Tamil and tries to show how the first language of Tamil learners differs from English in handling the interrogative and negative sentences. It attempts to make the Tamil learners understand the verbal structures of Tamil and the differences between Tamil and English. This understanding is vital for the Tamil learners of English to overcome the mistakes that recur in the formation of the negative and interrogative structures. {"references":["1.\tBright, J. A., and Mc Gregor, G. P. (1970), Teaching English as a Second LangJage. London: Longman Group Limited. 2.\tClose, R. A. (1962), English as a Foreign Language. London, George Aillen A Unwin. 3.\tHamby, A. S. (1992), Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English. (4th ed.,). London, OUP. 4.\tLittlewood, William T. Foreign and Second Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 5.\tMullick, Ratna and Shefali Ghosh (1993), Ennlinls Lan non Teachin From Then to Practice. Calcutta: Spectnim. 6.\tPalmer, Frank. (1984), Grammar. 2nd ed. London: Penguin. 7.\tSpolsky, Bemard (1972), \"Attitudinal Aspects of Second Language Learning\". Teaching English as a Second Language. Ed. Allen and Campbell. New Delhi: Tata Mcgraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd., 401-412. 8.\tVerghese, Paul C. (1989), Teaching English as a Second Language. Delhi: Sterling."]} |
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