Mother tongue and its implication on second language learning: English phones production

The study aimed to investigate the implication of mother tongue on second language learning, particularly in phones production. Data of this research were in the form of utterance that produced by 9 English learners whose Balinese, Indonesian, or Japanese mother tongue. The data were collected through two kinds of method, which were interview method and observation method. In analyzing the data, the researcher used intralingual matching method. Based on the result, second language will be easier to learn if the language has the same features and systems as other language that has been mastered. Second language learners will encounter difficulty in producing certain phones of the second language if the phones do not exist in their mother tongue.