[lg policy] Celebrating International Mother Language Day International Mother Language Day is celebrated on February 21 every year since 2000. It was first recognized in November 1999 when UNESCO brought the subject in the UN General Conference. Later, the resolution was welcomed by the UN General Assembly in 2002. By TPT Bureau | Agencies - February 21, 20190 Share Celebrating International Mother Language Day Nearly seventy years ago in 1952, a language movement was started by the people of Bangladesh. A group of students from the Dhaka University protested against the then-East Pakistan police in an effort to have Bengali recognized as an official language. These activists forced the Pakistan government to not impose Urdu as the national language for the region which later became Bangladesh. Post-independence, Pakistani government declared Urdu as its national language. However, the idea was not approved by the people living in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, as their mother language was
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- Previous message (by thread): [lg policy] Mother tongue-based education is changing lives in deep Southopinion February 21, 2019 01:00 By Risa Shibata, Kirk Person Special to The Nation 2,121 Viewed 23621 Think back to your very first day of school. Now imagine what it would have been like if you could not understand the language that your teachers were speaking. What would that be like? And how would you feel if you finished sixth grade, but still could not read or write? That is the reality for an estimated 240 million children who do not have access to education in their first or home language. Many are in school, but not learning anything at all. The United Nations’ International Mother Language Day, which falls today, exists to draw attention to the importance of language in every part of our lives. While globalisation has led to a rise in the use of English as a medium of instruction, much global research shows that a child’s success at school is closely tied to having a strong foundation in the language they spe
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Harold F. Schiffman
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Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
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- Previous message (by thread): [lg policy] Mother tongue-based education is changing lives in deep Southopinion February 21, 2019 01:00 By Risa Shibata, Kirk Person Special to The Nation 2,121 Viewed 23621 Think back to your very first day of school. Now imagine what it would have been like if you could not understand the language that your teachers were speaking. What would that be like? And how would you feel if you finished sixth grade, but still could not read or write? That is the reality for an estimated 240 million children who do not have access to education in their first or home language. Many are in school, but not learning anything at all. The United Nations’ International Mother Language Day, which falls today, exists to draw attention to the importance of language in every part of our lives. While globalisation has led to a rise in the use of English as a medium of instruction, much global research shows that a child’s success at school is closely tied to having a strong foundation in the language they spe
- Next message (by thread): [lg policy] Still a lot to be done Rashad Ahamad | Published: 23:23, Feb 20, 2019 | Updated: 23:29, Feb 20, 2019 The use of Bangla in all spheres of life is still limited to some empty rhetoric as two Supreme Court directives and Bengali Language Introduction Act 1987 remain largely unimplemented. Not only at individual level but also at government level, disregard for the language has been blatant, belying the spirit of the historic Language Movement of 1952. For distortions, academics have blamed the apathy of the ruling elites, lack of awareness and government policy for language development. Abdus Salam Rony runs a sports item shop at Bangabandhu Avenue named Bangladesh Sports. When asked why he hung the signboard of his shop only in English, Rony said it was comfortable for him as his clients prefer English cash memo and other papers. In many mass media, Bangla is pronounced in foreign accents while different businesses are still displaying signboards written in English in the ci
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