The Importance of Mother Tongue Learning

Mother tongue is very necessary for a person’s comprehensive development. Being fluent in the mother tongue, which is also known as the native language, benefits the person in numerous ways. It associates humans to culture, ensures enhanced cognitive development, and supports learning of other languages. Hence, having a strong basis in the mother’s language equips the skill to learn extra languages. Children achieve this by transferring the different structures of language to other languages. Grammar that advances when a child learns their native language is easily transferable, whereby a child can easily guess the meaning or read the meanings of words in different languages. To improve the quality of education, language policies need to take account of mother-tongue learning. This paper is about the main reasons for using the mother tongue. Models of education which ignore the mother tongue in the early years can be unproductive, ineffective and have a negative effect on children’s learning.