Abstract:
Being part of the multilingual Indian society, most Indian speakers achieve the
native verbal and linguistic repertoire of different Indian languages. At the same
time, they struggle to speak English as a second or foreign language with
international intelligibility. This study presents the First Language Influence and
Suprasegmental Reflections of Indian speakers on English language. It also deals
with the reasons and remedies to extirpate this habit. It may also help the readers
to better understand the issues faced by their students or learners of English to
adopt an empirical approach for teaching correct pronunciation. This study is
based on personal interaction during teaching English as a second or foreign
language to the Indian vernacular medium pupils.
