Mother Tongue and Second Language

Mother tongue refers to the language that a human learns from birth. Throughout this site, you will notice the words "mother tongue", "first language", and "native language" are often intermixed. These terms are all related to this same idea, and refer to the language a child is first exposed to, particularly from birth to 9 months. Children growing up in bilingual homes can have more than one mother tongue, provided that two languages were introduced at birth and equally developed through childhood.
The level of development of children's mother tongue is a strong predictor of their second language development. Children who come to school with a solid foundation in their mother tongue develop stronger literacy abilities in the school language. When parents and other caregivers create time to spend time with their children and tell stories or discuss issues with them in a way that develops their mother tongue vocabulary and concepts, children come to school well-prepared to learn the school language and succeed educationally. Children's knowledge and skills transfer across languages from the mother tongue they have learned in the home to the school language. From the point of view of children's development of concepts and thinking skills, the two languages are interdependent. Transfer across languages can be two-way: when the mother tongue is accepted at school and promoted at home, the concepts, language, and literacy skills that children are learning in the majority language can transfer to the home language. In short, both languages nurture each other when the educational and home environment permits children access to both languages.

6 komentar:

sprei mengatakan...

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Sewa Ruang Kantor Jakarta Murah mengatakan...

So Mother tongue are able to acquire naturally,
nice ARTICLE friend, keep sharing

jasa penerjemah thailand mengatakan...

its true, mother tongue is naturally for each person.greeting

Unknown mengatakan...

Many knowledge and information I got from your site, especially about language, true friend, because the more dominant age child development close to a mother, so the character was very influential to its development. child's mother tongue and very closely in the family.thanks and greetings of friendship.

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