Topic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.
3. ‘Fostering Multilingualism for Inclusion in Education and Society’ is the theme for this year’s International Mother Languages Day’. In this context discuss the importance of Mother tongue in personality development. (250 words)
Reference: Times of India
Why the question:
The article talks about importance of mother tongue in personality development.
Key Demand of the question:
Explain in detail how Mother tongue is critically important for cognitive, psychological and personality development, education and learning.
Directive:
Discuss – This is an all-encompassing directive – you have to debate on paper by going through the details of the issues concerned by examining each one of them. You have to give reasons for both for and against arguments.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Start with importance of language in general.
Body:
Explain that Mother tongue, which one hears and gets familiar while in the womb, has a vital role in shaping our personality, thoughts and life.
Discuss the significance of mother tongue in personality development. Present the issues due to lack of emphasis on mother tongue such as – Difficult learning: Incomplete first language skills often make learning other languages more difficult. Cognitive conflict: when a child finds a discrepancy between what he thinks the world should be and what he finds it as, emanating from forced situation of learning in a second language etc.
Conclusion:
Conclude by highlighting importance of mother tongue.
