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Read the following passage about mother tongue and answer the questions that follow.
Formal education through the medium of a language that is not a child’s mother tongue, leading to children not learning their own language fully (not learning the language that the parent generation knows). This is a subtractive language learning situation, where the dominant language is learned at the cost of the mother tongue. Instead, knowledge in dominant languages can be added to the children's linguistic repertoire, at no cost to the mother tongues. In this kind of additive language learning situation the result is additive bilingualism or multilingualism, and the maintenance of the mother tongue. Subtractive language learning also means that these children will tend not to speak their mother tongue to their own children.
Homogenizing mass media, entertainment and other cultural products in dominant languages takes place through which these products send the message that the languages in which films, TV and pop music come have a higher status than others. Urbanization, migration and employment mobility of people often lead to the disintegration of language communities, with fewer chances for children to hear and use their parents’ language(s) on a daily basis. A labor market which requires knowledge of dominant languages and does not offer economic or psychological incentives for maintaining the smaller languages. Insufficient protection of linguistic human rights and ideologies see not multilingualism but monolinguals in dominant languages as normal, sufficient and desirable, both for states (one nation - one language) and for individuals. This leads to parents often thinking that their children have to choose between either learning their mother tongue (and losing out on the labor market) or learning the dominant language (and sacrificing their own language).
Read the following passage about mother tongue and answer the questions that follow.
Formal education through the medium of a language that is not a child’s mother tongue, leading to children not learning their own language fully (not learning the language that the parent generation knows). This is a subtractive language learning situation, where the dominant language is learned at the cost of the mother tongue. Instead, knowledge in dominant languages can be added to the children's linguistic repertoire, at no cost to the mother tongues. In this kind of additive language learning situation the result is additive bilingualism or multilingualism, and the maintenance of the mother tongue. Subtractive language learning also means that these children will tend not to speak their mother tongue to their own children.
Homogenizing mass media, entertainment and other cultural products in dominant languages takes place through which these products send the message that the languages in which films, TV and pop music come have a higher status than others. Urbanization, migration and employment mobility of people often lead to the disintegration of language communities, with fewer chances for children to hear and use their parents’ language(s) on a daily basis. A labor market which requires knowledge of dominant languages and does not offer economic or psychological incentives for maintaining the smaller languages. Insufficient protection of linguistic human rights and ideologies see not multilingualism but monolinguals in dominant languages as normal, sufficient and desirable, both for states (one nation - one language) and for individuals. This leads to parents often thinking that their children have to choose between either learning their mother tongue (and losing out on the labor market) or learning the dominant language (and sacrificing their own language).
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