Mother Tongue Essay

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The mother tongue plays a very important part in a child's identity and self-esteem. The mother tongue provides the basis for the child's ability to learn. The child finds it easier to learn their second language and other school subjects. It is of considerable advantage to society if many people are multilingual. An extensive amount of research confirming the importance of instruction in pupils' mother tongue at pre-school and school level has been collected on the NORDBAS database. What is Mother Tongue Support? The national curriculum for pre-school education states that children with a mother tongue other than Swedish should be given the opportunity to develop their mastery of that mother tongue. A mother tongue teacher specialising in teaching mother tongue at pre-school level, and who comes from the same cultural background as the children, meets them once or twice every week and leads them in activities such as singing, drawing, play, cutting and gluing, playing games, reading nursery stories in the children's mother tongue. The mother tongue teacher might also lead the whole of the pre-school class in traditional songs and games, thus "translating" the culture for the children from a Swedish background while at the same time strengthening the sense of identity of the children they are working with. Studies have shown that if children are given the chance to develop their mother tongue skills from pre-school age, their academic performance at school will be better; their mother tongue proficiency functions as a bridge between the language spoken at school and the language they speak at home. માતૃભાષા બાળકની ઓળખ અને સ્વાભિમાન ખૂબ અગત્યનો ભાગ ભજવે છે. આ માતૃભાષા બાળકના શીખવા માટે ક્ષમતા માટે આધાર પૂરો પાડે છે. બાળ સરળ તેમના બીજા ભાષા અને અન્ય શાળાના વિષયો જાણવા માટે શોધે છે. તે નોંધપાત્ર લાભ સમાજને છે જો ઘણા લોકો બહુભાષી છે. 'વિદ્યાર્થીઓ માતૃભાષા
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