Cross-language interference in teaching English to kazakh, russian learners

Abstract

The condition for the appearance of language interference in the teaching of students is the results of the language communication in the learning situation. Students often make mistakes caused by interlingual interference - the influence of the native language system on the target foreign languages. Cross-language interference occurs when the speaker equals or compares the units of one language to the units of his native language because of their similarity in the language form, distribution or both. The depth and volume of interference can be different. They depend on a lot of subjective and objective factors. It is believed that the smaller the typological distance between native and target languages is, the greater the degree of their similarity and the smaller the difference, the greater the likelihood interference are. If this distance is large and the languages are not genetically related, then there will be fewer cases of automatic transferences. So, as a consequence, mistakes made by trainees will be less in the use of target language.