Dear Potential Parents, Groom your Children in the Mother Tongue.
I have seen parents instructing their kids in English from birth, is that the best way to go? The role of mother tongue in English Language acquisition has been the subject of much debate and controversy. This article tries to put out the role of mother tongue in foreign language teaching. The teacher’s use of mother tongue can influence the learner’s acquisition of the target language. Generally, my own experience of first observing and then teaching English at a primary school proved over usage of mother tongue language in English lessons. In lessons of English that I had a chance to observe, teachers used the mother tongue for all kinds of situations including giving instructions, doing translation or presenting foreign language structures. A student’s primary focus would be to grasp the concepts rather on the translation. It is where he builds his own ideas. This happened mainly because some of the teachers feel that the use of mother tongue has always an active and beneficial
