... exploring the potential causes of the errors a misperception of ‘have’ structure in Chinese. In this case, learners’ understanding of ‘have’ in Chinese was considered a key to their correct use of ... 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, ... guilt-free life in using MT in TL classrooms (Swain, Kirkpatrick and Cummins, 2011). Viewing L1 as potentially valuable teaching/learning resources instead of a mere source of interference opens...