1. SOP
Mother tongue language disrupts the
smoothness of the communication
Students with lack of confidence tends to use
mother tongue language instead of proper
English
Language background affects student’s
performance in terms of communication
2. What does the effects of mother
tongue towards the
communication between students
?
How can language
background affects the
students performance ?
What is the benefit of
mastering the mother
tongue language ?
To investigate
the effects of
mother tongue
towards the
communication
between the
students
To what extent
does language
background
affects the
student
performance
To know what
is the benefit of
mastering the
mother tongue
language
3. Mother tongue and
communication
Mother tongue
and culture
• The quality of spoken and written English
language among school children need to be
polished because it improving the
communication (Salami, 2002)
• use of mother tongue in teaching and learning
process in the early stage can preserve the value
of culture (Akibanto and Ogusanwo, 2003)
5. Language that are widely used in everyday's life
Malay
Mother tongue
English
Manglish
Figure 1 : Language that are widely
used in everyday’s life
6. Mother tongue's language preserve culture
Agree
Disagree
Figure 2 : Mother’s tongue language preserve culture
7. Malay person should write books in mother tongue rather
than in English
Disagree
Agree
Figure 3: Malay person should write books in
mother tongue rather than in english
8. Short time
with small
sample size
Long time
and bigger
sample size
Only valid to
IIUM students
Conducted
among other
local
universities’s
students
Only involved
local students
Conducted
among the
international
students
