Abstract: The mother tongue is the expression of identity of an individual as well as of individual’s primary group identity. For the beginner, becoming aware of anything unknown, or to find out the meaning of everything alien, almost automatically involves connecting the concepts with the mother tongue–where control and confidence is better and get increasingly well-established, so much so that even after mastering L2 and other languages in mature years, at moments of problem and difficulty, the mind automatically takes recourse to mother tongue to resolve the problem. The non-use or non-development of the mother tongue, conversely, produce serious constrains for what can be listened, said, read or written. Alongside bilingual or multilingual education, encouraging education in the mother tongue is one of the principles set out by UNESCO. Children with a sound knowledge of their first language comfortably transfer skills from one language to another. The mother tongue opens the door, including its own grammar, to all grammars, in which it awakens the potential for universal grammar that lies within all of us. The present paper intends to make an estimate of the need and necessity of using Mother Tongue as the Medium of Instruction in the primary level.
Keywords: Mother Tongue, concept, language, grammar, instruction, primary.
Title: Mother Tongue as Medium of Instruction: A Necessity
Author: Krishnendu Roy
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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