Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học ngành toán học được đăng trên tạp chí toán học quấc tế đề tài: Systematic use of mother tongue as learning/teaching resources in target language instruction | Multilingual Education SpringerOpen0 This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text HTML versions will be made available soon. Systematic use of mother tongue as learning teaching resources in target language instruction Multilingual Education 2012 2 1 doi 2191-5059-2-1 An E He heane@ ISSN 2191-5059 Article type Research Submission date 20 September 2011 Acceptance date 6 January 2012 Publication date 6 January 2012 Article URL http content 2 1 1 This peer-reviewed article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded printed and distributed freely for any purposes see copyright notice below . For information about publishing your research in Multilingual Education go to http authors instructions For information about other SpringerOpen publications go to http 2012 He licensee Springer. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Systematic use of mother tongue as learning teaching resources in target language instruction An E He Department of English The Hong Kong Institute of Education 10 Lo Ping Road Tai Po New Territories Hong Kong Email heane@ 1 Abstract This paper reports the results of a study which explored systematic use of L1 for the benefit of L2 development. Students of a comparative linguistic course in a teacher education program were asked to design a series of tasks for Chinese learners of English in local schools. Three different ways of using L1 were discerned from their design and rationale 1 taking advantage of similarities between Chinese and English language systems 2 taking advantage of differences between the two language systems .