ELITE PARENTS AND THE MOTHER TONGUE ISSUE ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION (A CASE STUDY OF TUNGA AND MAITUMBI AREA OF MINNA).
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2018-08-19
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Niger State College Of Education Minna
Abstract
Mother tongue generally is the language a child acquired from his/her parents, "once language at birth, the language ·of the native community into which the
child is born". A child is an expert on the pronunciation of at least one language. The language in whose pronunciation the child is expert is normally his/her mother tongue. ln this perspective, the child proficiency in the native language becomes a determining ground on which English can be satisfactorily learnt.
When a language learning is well grounded in his/her native language, he or she is empowered to draw the similarity and dispensations there are in both the language of his/her birth and any other in question. With that empowerment, the child can affect corrections or changes especially with conscious effort and at
will when faced with any difficulty that are from language differences. The use of language positively by the parents to the child will bring about social integration and such language must be the mother tongue. It can conveniently be maintained that mother tongue serves a sound basis for acquiring correct pronunciation skills in English because the ability of an individual to speak English in the present dispensation will undoubtedly offer him/her social
integration. This study exposes the fact that most elite parents for the reason of prestige would prefer their children to use English at the level of discussion. This came study will also be indelicate in no small measures that the purposeful use of mother tongue will enhance effective teaching and learning in classroom.