PREFACE TO PRESENTATION

We are thankful enough to our respected Pabitra sir for

assigning our class with such a wonderful task of
presentation . This has no doubt improved our verbal
skills , infact, it was a great addition to our self-
confidence.
To start with, our class was divided into groups of 6 and
each group was assigned a topic for presentation .
We were given a two days time frame to prepare for the
presentation & the topic assigned to us was –“Lets
Protect and Promote Our Mother Tongue”.
Our team decided to first do a bit research on topic by
going through several articles online & noted down
some really cool points. Secondly, we made it a point to
divide the topic among each member and assign each
member with a specific part to speak upon . We
rehearsed the topic several times before the final day .
REFERENCES

-Wikipedia
-Quora
 Presentation on “LETS PROTECT AND PROMTE OUR MOTHER TONGUE”

Member1(Ashis): - Over the past few decades, there has been a remarkable increase in the
number of people living abroad. As a result, the new generation is being fostered away from
its motherland. While most people try to preserve and pass on their culture to their next
generation, not enough efforts are being taken to teach and save our mother tongues. If it
continues this way, all these beautiful languages will disappear from these households and
will be at a risk of becoming extinct. Celebrating our festivals, dressing up kids in ethnic
clothes, making traditional foods at home are just some examples of how people try their
best to follow their cultural norms even when living away from the country of origin. I
believe that teaching kids their mother tongue is the key to help them understand their
culture.
Member2(Hansraj): - Even in our country, our own country peoples, nowadays tend to leans
toward westernizing more than our traditions and cultures of which we all were once so
proud of. From clothes, eateries, songs and music and dances as well, we all are attracted to
the wonders of western world. And To the extend, that we prefer our kids, our coming
generation to learn the western language, use them as in daily basis and get fluent in it. Our
mother tongue already feels like it’s at the edge of extinction knowing our generation itself
barely knows how to read and write them so what can we even offer to our next generation?
Our language is such an essential part of a culture and it is very agonizing to imagine that
with language, the cultural values will be lost too.

Member3(Amit): - People sharing the same mother tongue can have much deeper and
heart-to-heart conversation in their own language than in any other. Even at a place with
various peoples of various languages, if we find one person with same mother tongue then
we no more feel odd one out or alone anymore. The reason, I believe, is that sharing a
common language, creates some bonding and gives a feeling of belongingness. Our mother
tongue or our family language is a naturally inherited priceless keepsake. If our children are
secluded from it, it will slacken the family bond and cause them to drift away from their root
culture.

Member4: - Our mother tongue, lets us enjoy movies, theatre and songs in our language.
Literature, music, art, and theatrical dramas are all reflections of the traditions, practices,
and customs that are inherited and pursued by us for so many generations. It is amazing to
see how kids unknowingly adopt these cultural values from such entertainment sources
without us having to take any deliberate or extra efforts to teach. But this is possible only if
they can understand their mother tongue. So, I feel that for a successful transfer of our
invaluable cultural teachings to the next generation, learning their mother tongue should
not only be insisted, but it should be the foundation.
Member5: - Many times, I have seen it happen, that the fear of not understanding the local
language goes to the extent of completely ignoring and forgetting the mother tongue. When
this happens, these are some of the consequences:
- Participation of kids in any family discussions is dramatically reduced, especially
when they involve parents or grandparents. This is because they cannot understand
much of the conversation that is going on in their family language and they might
walk out feeling bored. In the long term, they might start considering themselves
somewhat different from the rest of the family and might not think of themselves as
a part of it.
- Conversations with relatives might become very difficult for children. Neither can
they express themselves clearly in their language nor can the person on the other
side understand them very well. So the conversation time and frequency gradually
becomes smaller and smaller. So, next time kids might try to avoid talking completely
to escape any embarrassment.
- The fun of just hanging out with cousins and relatives is missed because of the
inability to understand and speak the family language very well. Again, they end up
feeling left out of the family on such occasions.

Member6: - Experts from the English as a Second Language (ESL) program have researched
that kids who know and continue to learn their mother tongues can learn any language
much faster and better than kids who do not know their mother tongue. The reason is — as a
baby grows, she is continuously listening to noises around her. With an effort to
communicate with people, she learns to recognize sound patterns hidden in these noises
and guess their meanings. This cognitive skill is best acquired when learning her mother
tongue in this way. And the same skill is later used to learn any other language easily. Also,
the trick of guessing the meaning of words from context clues, another important skill in
comprehension, is also best learnt in the process of learning a mother tongue.