Classroom language. The use of the mother tongue

Classroom language. The use of the mother tongue.

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Mahmatqulova Iroda

What is mother tongue?

Mother tongue refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the person at the time the data was collected. If the person no longer understands the first language learned, the mother tongue is the second language learned.

What is it called mother tongue?

• In this metaphor, language is seen as coming from your primary caregiver, the person who looked after you most when you were young, and traditionally this was mothers. So, this is perhaps the point of origin, the starting place,of the metaphorical phrase, mother tongue

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