Article: Only a handful of Indians have Arabic as mother tongue

Article: ‘mother tongue’
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      7 words ...‘mother tongue’ = native language .

Article: Learning the Mother Tongue.(Book Review)
Hollins Critic;  December 1, 1987 ;     431 words ...Learning the Mother Tongue. By Cathryn Hankla. Columbia: University...The title story, Learning the Mother Tongue, is a dizzingly quick lesson in...defies it. All through the book Mother Tongue appears in guises and disguises...

Article: WHAT'S MOTHER TONGUE?
The Hindustan Times;  April 1, 2006 ;     240 words ...Bangalore, Apr 01 -- What is mother tongue? The State government has failed to...through which it was declared that mother tongue or Kannada should be the medium of...are various interpretations about "mother tongue", said Senior Counsel U L Bhat appearing...

Article: 'Mother tongue must to impart quality education'.
The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan);  April 7, 2008 ;     409 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: mother tongue
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      29 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 mother tongue 1. one's native language 2. a language in its relation to another derived from it Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Article: INDIAN VALUES: Mother tongue or the other tongue?
India Abroad;  December 13, 2002 ;     484 words ......we ourselves are. English is not our mother tongue, not that of our teachers either. Even...bother to teach our children their mother tongue?" The answer is simple. Because it...dispute about the need to teach one's mother tongue. But how can one go about it? There...

Article: JNANPITH WINNER HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF MOTHER TONGUE
The Hindustan Times;  September 19, 2006 ;     240 words ......Hindustan Times SHILLONG, Sept 19 -- "One's mother tongue is an inevitable part of one's life...revive and propagate the importance of mother tongue in the city. The mission, 'Matri Bhasa...emphasising the importance of knowing one's mother tongue observes: "teaching in both the ...

Article: Students peform badly in their mother tongue.
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  November 28, 2005 ;     413 words ...Students peform badly in their mother tongue New Delhi, Nov 28 (PTI) Students in...are performing very badly in their mother tongue. A recent survey conducted by Secondary...more importance to English than their mother tongue. It is a bad trend. The state boards...

Article: MOTHER TONGUE
Seven Days;  September 20, 2006 ;     430 words ...MICHAEL CHORNEY, MOTHER TONGUE (GrainbinMusic, CD) Bristol's...most versatile artists. With Mother Tongue, Chorney makes his first foray...near whisper. Only one tune on Mother Tongue doesn't work, and that's "Russian...

Article: Mother tongue education is best, says Dugmore before enrolment drive.(News)
Cape Times (South Africa);  November 2, 2006 ;     174 words ......classes where they are taught in their mother tongue. Dugmore was speaking in the provincial...understand and accept the concept that mother tongue education is best, but that a second...English. We want to explain to them that mother tongue education is best in terms of ...

Article: Religious identity and ethnic language: correlations between shifting Chinese Canadian religious affiliation and mother tongue retention, 1931-1961.
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: STUDYING IN MOTHER TONGUE IS NOT AN IMPEDIMENT: TOPPERS
The Hindustan Times;  May 23, 2007 ;     482 words ......GUWAHATI, May 23 -- Studying in one's mother tongue can never be an impediment to learning...said having his education in his own mother tongue gave him an edge over the other students...of having his schooling in his own mother tongue. "Education in one's mother ...

Article: Third-language plan for Cape pupils; Lessons must be in mother tongue for first six years to boost results, says MEC.(News)
Cape Argus (South Africa);  August 22, 2007 ;     542 words ......pupils would have to be taught in their mother tongue until Grade 6, while at the same time...pupils were not being taught in their mother tongue language. Dugmore said: There is clear...minimum of six years of tuition in their mother tongue in order to achieve enough language...

Article: Govt failed to provide mother tongue education: Experts.
Pajhwok;  February 21, 2009 ;     455 words ......to provide education to the children in mother tongue in each remote part of the country in...from their right to learning education in mother tongue. Although, the issue of mother tongue education had been widely discussed, but...