[EDLING:2378] Kabul: Seminar on mother tongue as medium of learning

[Francis M. Hult]

International News Network

Seminar on mother tongue as medium of learning 

KABUL: Speakers at a seminar, organised in connection with the UNESCO’s 
International Mother Language Day here on Friday, stressed the need for 
implementation of mother tongue as medium of learning. 

Addressing the seminar, organised by the Hindara Media and Culture Foundation, 
writer and expert Dr Mohammad Ibrahim Shinwari said provision of education to 
children in their mother tongue was their right. 

It was unfortunate that little had been done in using mother tongue as medium 
of instructions, said Shinwari, who believed adoption of alien language after 
seven years usually faced children with problems. 

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