Background: The promotion of ‘mother tongue’ is at the core global education agenda. Aim: This article explored problematic nature mother tongue concept, and subsequent effects it has on language use in education. Method: Although African continent referred to wherever necessary indicate this problem’s broadness, South Africa (SA) as one most developed countries was used contextualise current s...

In this article, we analyze the use of term ‘morsmål’ (‘mother tongue’) in official Norwegian documents and media texts to identify if how its conceptualization has changed era increasing globalization. Our point view is explorative. When examining our data, highlight importance reflecting openly about instability powerful concepts. We two partly conflicting conceptualizations that name ‘tradit...

As ownership of mobile devices increases, the trend in use information and communications technology (ICT) education also advances. In line with mandate department to develop interactive strategies, this study aimed design, develop, evaluate an android word game Mother Tongue on level acceptability system based content, instructional quality, technical presentation organization, accuracy up-to-...

Mother tongue-based education has been central to the promotion of early literacy skills in many multilingual contexts Global South. However, learners such environments may face significant linguistic challenges when changing language instruction during schooling. In particular, distance between mother tongue and official be a barrier learners. This paper provides an empirical approach this iss...

This work may be seen as a further proof of the versatility of the relational database model. Here, we add XQuery to the catalog of languages which RDBMSs are able to “speak” fluently. Given suitable relational encodings of sequences and ordered, unranked trees—the two data structures that form the backbone of the XML and XQuery data models—we describe a compiler that translates XQuery expressi...

The study delves into the perception of parents learners whose first language is English towards Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE). questionnaire accumulates as important stakeholders in MTBMLE implementation to provide insight family policy Philippines. Native speakers this refer Filipino children who use more comfortably than any other at home Central Philippines region, wit...

2 Individual Pronunciation Coaching The difficulties experienced while learning the pronunciation of a second language do not only depend on the mother tongue of the learners but also on individual differences between learners. Even students of the same mother tongue and with a very similar learning background show huge differences in their individual pronunciation. Learners also differ in term...

The importance of using mother tongue and translation in foreign language classrooms cannot be ignored and translation can be utilized as a method in English Language Teaching courses. There exist researches advocating or objecting to the use of translation in foreign language learning but they all have a point in common: Translation should be used as an aid to teaching, not an end in itself. I...

The importance of using mother tongue and translation in foreign language classrooms cannot be ignored and translation can be utilized as a method in English Language Teaching courses. There exist researches advocating or objecting to the use of translation in foreign language learning but they all have a point in common: Translation should be used as an aid to teaching, not an end in itself. I...

Widely hailed as an educational success story, Singapore, a multilingual island nation in Southeast Asia, embraces an officially bilingual education policy. English is the medium of all content-area education from the start of schooling, with students’ official “mother tongue” required as a single subject. Although called the student’s “mother tongue,” these languages may not be the student’s h...