Article: INDIAN VALUES: Mother tongue or the other tongue?

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: 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 ;     642 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 ...

Article: 'Mother tongue must to impart quality education'.
The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan);  April 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... seminar termed the early education in mother tongue the only way to impart quality education ... a seminar titled Early Education in Mother Tongue and discussed as to which medium of ... that a child can learn effectively in mother tongue rather than a foreign language and ...

Article: The vernacular treasure: a century of mother-tongue ...
International Bulletin of Missionary Research;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... miraculously heard the wonders of God in their mother tongue. That the Holy Spirit broke through ... communication and spoke to people in their mother tongue shows the importance of people's ... received God's Word in his or her mother tongue for the first time. It awakens something ...

Article: Learning the Mother Tongue.(Book Review)
Hollins Critic;  December 1, 1987 ;     700+ words ...Learning the Mother Tongue. By Cathryn Hankla. Columbia ... The title story, "Learning the Mother Tongue," is a dizzingly quick lesson ... defies it. All through the book Mother Tongue appears in guises and disguises ...