THE IMPORTANCE OF FIRST LANGUAGE IN ESL CLASSROOMS

This research was carried out in order to emphasize the importance of first language in the second-language acquisition. The study was conducted in secondary school of Andijan city among pupils of 8-11 grades.The purpose of this research was to identify how L1 grammar and lexicology are essential to know while learning a foreign language and the way that it makes it easier to comprehend and facilitates the second language acquisition process. Study group was divided into two subgroups : the first one-those who are masters of their mother tongue grammar, and the second one those who are totally unaware of it. The results show that the pupils of first subgroup were able to acquire English language in a year ,however the second ones could only speak with huge amount of mistakes