[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
Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Phone: (215) 898-7475
Fax: (215) 573-2138
Email: haroldfs at gmail.com
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- Previous message (by thread): [lg policy] Revitalising endangered languages Efforts towards revitalising endangered languages have gained global significance. There are now hundreds of endangered languages. Though languages died in all epochs, the rapid decline of diversity is very unique to the modern era, rivalled only by a similar decline during the agricultural revolution some 10,000 years ago. Consequently, many communities in the world are confronted with the loss of their languages which have been an integral part of their identity. The awareness towards revitalising languages has its roots in the socio-cultural shift that happened since the end of the cold war when hegemonic patterns, which had actively and explicitly suppressed cultural diversity, began to shatter, and as a result ethnic groups and minorities began to assert themselves and demand their territorial, political and cultural rights. This necessitated a rethink in human rights too. An example of this is Unesco’s Declaration on Cultural Diversity (20
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