A Look at Contrastive Analysis with Reference to English and Malay

Abstract

Because a foreign language is a foreign language we cannot teach it as a native language would be taught. The native speaker hears his language being spoken around him right from birth. Therefore, he has no problem about the right pattern in which to fit his words to make an intelligible sentence. When he is learning a second language, in this case English, he does not hear it spoken around him very often and he gets confused as to how to arrange words in correct patterns so that they make sense.