A LITERATURE REVIEW ON THE INFLUENCE OF MOTHER TONGUE ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING IN INDONESIA

• Achmad Farchan

  Universitas Islam Negeri Siber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon

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• Septi Gumiandari

  Universitas Islam Negeri Siber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon

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Mother tongue is the first language acquired by children from their young age and each language has its own feature and structure that differ from one to another including English language, the most spoken language in Indonesia as foreign language. This study aims to show how mother tongue influencing students’ speaking skill in their English language learning and to find out what are the challenges faced by them. This study was conducted using literature review with qualitative design by gathering library data, reading, and evaluating the information. The article searches conducted by using google scholar and keywords used to search the articles are “Influence of Mother Tongue, Speaking Skill, English Language Learning Indonesia”. Eight relevant articles published between 2020 and 2025 were selected from Google Scholar to support this literature review. The result shows that mother tongue does affect students’ English language learning, especially in students’ speaking skill and there are found several challenges faced by students, they are 1) Pronunciation factors; 2) Psychological factors; 3) Grammatical factors; 4) Environmental factors.

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