觉得不错,没事转贴一下。 Educating a child in its mother tongue has been proven to be the best way of making the child to understand easily what is taught, improve its capacity and gain confidence which in turn helps the child to forge ahead. Mother tongue education is now generally regarded as the first step that a child should take in a multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious society. It positively contributes to the growth and development of multi-cultural society and unity in diversity. The struggle throughout the world for the recognition of and teaching in mother tongue has been long and perilous, resulting in bloodshed and deaths. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Orgnaisation (UNESCO) has put its stamp of approval to the importance of teaching and learning in mother tongue and to celebrate it with its proclamation of 21 February of every year as the “International Mother Language Day” in November 1999. This date commemorates the stu...