Content Introduction Chapter The Role of Translation and Mother Tongue in flt

Purpose and objectives of the study
The research was performed by means of a questionnaire survey. The survey used
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quantitative research methods and was realized by means of a mixed questionnaire type. The items of the questionnaires were constructed in order to disclose mainly respondent' attitudes and motives. Altogether, the teachers were asked to complete three questionnaires and there was one questionnaire for learners. The nature of the questionnaires will be described later in this paper.Unfortunately, one obvious disadvantage of this method was that the author could not know the exact number of teachers addressed.

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Conclusion
The aim of this thesis was to provide an overview of the issues related to the role of mother tongue in the foreign language teaching in primary and lower secondary schools. The paper primarily focused on four areas, into which the author tried to provide a complex insight: classroom language, presentation of vocabulary and grammar and translation.
The theoretical part of thThe aim of this thesis was to provide an overview of the issues related to the role of mother tongue in the foreign language teaching in primary and lower secondary schools. The paper primarily focused on four areas, into which the author tried to provide a complex insight: classroom language, presentation of vocabulary and grammar and translation.
The use of the mother tongue in vocabulary teaching in line with the communicative approach should be likewise limited. Although the use of L1 is accepted, teachers are encouraged to avoid it where possible and use alternative methods, for example demonstration, guessing from context, visual aids or circumlocution. A separate chapter was dedicated to the positive and negative impacts the learners' mother tongue may have on their L2 acquisition. It dealt with the issues of positive and negative transfer
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(interference).
The younger the learner is, the smaller the impact of the negative transfer. The issue of interference was put within the communicative framework with the emphasis on successfulness of communication.
The topic of grammar concentrated primarily on explicit explanation of grammar and its implications for the language used. Although explicit grammar teaching does not belong to the principles of CLT, it is frequently used. Such approach may be too demanding for some learners, especially the young ones, even when the teacher uses the mother tongue. For this reason, the covert grammar presentation seems more suitable for primary and lower secondary school learners.
The theoretical part laid foundations for the practical part. The aim of the practical part was to find out how the issues raised in the theoretical part work in practice. A questionnaire survey was carried out among the teachers of English and learners of the ninth grade.In terms of the classroom language, differences in approach between the teachers of young learners and older learners were studied. Despite the above mentioned results, the survey has also confirmed that in numerous situations teaches are made to L1 and, similarly, they face the reality that the learners are not willing to