Making Phonemic Inventories of Nepali Mother Tongues and its Implications to English Language Teaching: A Case of Dungmali

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  • Nirajan Rai Janasahayog College, Tarahara, Sunsari, Nepal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/jodem.v10i1.30405

Keywords:

ELT, Language learning, phonemic inventory, mother tongues, vowels and consonants

Abstract

This article presents the idea why phonemic systems of students' mother tongues should be studied while teaching English? As Nepal is a rich country in terms of linguistic diversity, students having different linguistic backgrounds attend the English language classrooms every day. However, their perception of learning English language is different to each. They think English is very hard, talent one only masters it. Teachers also are not aware on vast distinctions of sound systems of students' mother tongues with English that affects language learning hugely. This gap is one of the major issues of English language teaching in Nepal. This paper attempts to analyze this issue by making phonemic inventory of one of the Nepali mother tongues of Nepal; Dungmali. It emphasizes the importance of phonemic inventories with reasons in reference to English Language Teaching.

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Author Biography

Nirajan Rai, Janasahayog College, Tarahara, Sunsari, Nepal

Nirajan Rai teaches English in Education at Janasahayog College, Tarahara, Sunsari. He has earned MA in Linguistics and M. Ed in English Education from Tribhuvan University. He has published a dozen of books related to linguistics and literature in Bantawa, Nepali and English languages. His Email is nbatas@gmail.com

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Published

2019-09-30

How to Cite

Rai, N. (2019). Making Phonemic Inventories of Nepali Mother Tongues and its Implications to English Language Teaching: A Case of Dungmali. JODEM: Journal of Language and Literature, 10(1), 123–142. https://doi.org/10.3126/jodem.v10i1.30405

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