Hyderabad, Feb 26: Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan
on Friday equated learning in mother tongue in initial years of childhood to
giving mother’s milk to the new born baby. Since both will have immense positive
and vibrating effect on the well being of the children in their entire life.
She stated that respecting, loving and promoting
mother language is nothing but respecting and loving our own mother.
The Governor was participating as the chief guest at
the International Mother Language Day, organized by the Bharathidasan
University, Tiruchirapally, and Desiya Chintanai Kaghagam.
Highlighting the importance of learning in the mother
tongue in the childhood, she said that research has concluded that a child’s
brain has tremendous scope for absorption in its formative years and learning
through the mother tongue will immensely help children to grasp imagine, retain
better.
“In case of mother tongue, first we develop the
competence by listening and express our feelings through own words. Afterwards we
learn to read and write. This ideal sequence is not possible to maintain while
learning the other language, wherein we first learn to read and write and their
other things”, she said.
She declared that there is no alternative to mother
tongue.
“It is paining me to know that some youngsters are not
able to speak correctly either in their mother tongue or in English. The precise
reason for this is non importing of learning in mother tongue in the initial
years. If a children are taught in their mother tongue during the initial
years, they could be able to learn the other languages quite easily”.
She said that the languages are the most powerful
instrument of preserving and developing tangible and intangible heritage, and
the effort to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will contribute to
linguistic diversity and multilingual education.
She appreciated the organizers for celebrating
International Mother Language Day like this as the celebrations like this will
help in reducing the extinction of languages and promote the utility and spread
of linguistic diversity and in turn has an immense potential to contribute for
the Atma Nirbhar Bharat.
The International Mother Language Day was organized by
the Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapally, and Desiya Chintanai Kaghagam.
Prof. M. Selvam, Ph.D, Vice-Chancellor, Bharathidasan
University, Dr. G. Gopinath, Registrar i/c, Bharathidasan Univerity, Thiru. Ma.
Ko. Chi. Rajendran, State Organizing Secretary, Desiya Chinthanai Kazhagam were
among others who spoke on the occasion.
-Press note
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