Article: RADIO WEEK; Brian Marconi picks the best of the week's radio.(Features)

Article: Mother Tongue
Scotland on Sunday;  February 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... to be a songwriter and have a baby and not have something to say about it." Polwart, who in 2005 swept the boards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards when she won three awards for her debut album, Faultlines, at the age of 35, may be relaxed now, but a few ...

Article: Mother-tongue language education ...
Windspeaker;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... have school courses taught in their mother-tongue language. Prof. Bear Nicholas of ... rights. By not providing an option for Mother-Tongue medium education, governments and ... points out students who are taught their mother-tongue language from an early age do better ...

Article: The mother tongue dilemma.
Africa News Service;  June 24, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Andrew and his wife Njeri speak the same mother tongue. At home they communicate in the language ... children cannot communicate in their mother tongue. "We did not realise how serious ... not keen to teach their children a mother tongue and for some reason, the language ...

Article: Children Learn Better in Mother Tongue.
Africa News Service;  June 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... unmistakable support for the use of mother tongue as the medium of instruction. "It ... medium for teaching a child is his mother tongue." Today, the 1953 conference report ... compendium of materials on the use of the mother tongue as a medium of instruction all over ...

Article: Religious identity and ethnic language: correlations between ...
Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... churches often have a higher rate of mother tongue retention than those who convert to ... or United Church. Other studies in mother tongue retention find a decline in competence ... immigrants' religious identification and mother tongue retention. The specific hypothesis ...

Article: Only a handful of Indians have Arabic as mother ...
The Hindustan Times;  April 19, 2008 ;     650 words ... ... of Kerala - would have it as their mother tongue, say academics, casting doubts on ... people in India have Arabic as their mother tongue - more than double the figure in the ... 000 people who have Arabic as their mother tongue, said the census report. However ...

Article: AFRICA: MOTHER TONGUE SPEAKS MOST CLEARLY TO YOUNG ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  April 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... lower primary to be taught in their mother tongue. In the later years of primary education ... notes. However, the promotion of mother-tongue learning requires broad support ... the educated. The campaign to have mother-tongue learning intensified in schools also ...