Summers mentions the "substantial investment" necessary to speaking a foreign tongue: languages are not effectively taught in most school curricula, and a great deal of money is wasted.
Through mobile devices, we have seen a number of subjects taught including maths (Dr Math, M4Girls), mother tongue languages (eTaleem, MoToLi), science (Text2Teach), sexual health & HIV/Aids prevention (education as a vaccine), and life skills (learning about living).
These resources included teaching guidelines for the three official Mother Tongue Languages (MTLs), namely Chinese, Malay, and Tamil between 2005 and 2006, a curriculum guide with practical teaching strategies to complement the NEL Framework in 2008, and a curriculum resource package to support nurturing of learning dispositions in 2010 and 2011.
The English word "language" derives ultimately from Indo-European * "tongue, speech, language" through Latin lingua, "language; tongue", and Old French language.
He searches deep into the riddles of language, too, those that precede any given tongue, language that reeks of the forest or even the jungle.
The mood of Truong's version of "The Book of Salt" is one of melancholy and loss, alleviated by Binh's unsated appetite for love and food, and his delight in that other gift of the tongue, language.
The mood "is one of melancholy and loss, alleviated by Binh's unsated appetite for love and food, and his delight in that other gift of the tongue, language," Christopher Benfey wrote in these pages in 2003.
In order to collect the data, two questionnaires have been adapted, through which more demographic information has been collected (gender, age, mother tongue, language learning experience with online experience with courses, other issues related to language learning).
Elaborations such as these provide models of mother tongue language features such as lexical items (bird) and grammatical structures (that's a bird), at the precise moment when the child is most ready to recognise and remember them.
Vincent et al. opined that specific cultural modifications such as incorporation of dietary preferences and cultural beliefs, delivery in mother tongue language and using bilingual nurses and dieticians can enhanced diabetes self-management and result in improved glycaemic control [ 24].
More local language books are needed: Access to reading and other materials in mother-tongue languages has had a significant impact on learning in the early grades.
