MOTHER TONGUE IS EVIDENT AT CHILD’S EXCELENCE.

 

Mother tongue has a very powerful impact in the formation of the individual. our first language, the beautiful sounds of which one hears and gets familiar with before being born while in the womb, has such important role in shaping our thoughts and emotions. A child’s psychological and personality development will depend upon what has been convened through the mother tongue. With this in mind, as a psychologist say, it matters tremendously that language expression and vocabulary are chosen when we talk to children. A child first comprehension of the world around him, the learning of concepts and skills, and his perception of existence, starts with the language that is first taught to him, his mother tongue. In his first feelings, a child expresses his first feelings, his words through his mother tongue.

Mother language has such an important role in framing our thinking, emotion, and spiritual world, because the most important stage of our life, childhood, is spent in these imprints. When a person speaks their mother tongue, a direct connection establishes between heart, brain and thought.” If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man with his language, it goes to his heart”, says Nelson Mandela.

Children who come to school with a strong foundation in their mother tongue develop stronger literacy abilities in the language used at school when parent and caregivers are able to spend time with their children and tell stories or discuss issues with them in a way that develops their mother tongue vocabulary and concept, children come to school well prepared. Hence, the ability converse in a language is developed through the mother tongues. If parent, guardian or those coming up to bore the next generation could understand this fact, we would continue to uphold the consciousness of our culture and heritage.

 

 

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