Mother Tongue and Foreign Language - Fazil 2nd Year English Reading Comprehension

Mother Tongue and Foreign Language - Fazil 2nd Year English Reading Comprehension

Fazil 2nd Year English Reading Comprehension Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. (নিচের অনুচ্ছেদটি সতর্কতার সাথে পড় এবং প্রশ্নগুলোর উত্তর দাও।) Mother Tongue and Foreign Language It is not easy task, either to teach or to help a teacher to teach a foreign language. But for the teacher, there is a special difficulty that is not commonly considered: it is the difficulty of overcoming the barrier of the pupil's mother tongue. For the mother tongue acts as a block in all the learner's language reactions, and impedes the learning of the language because it is firmly seated as the first language. Indeed, the mother tongue is so much a part of our mental lives and of our unreflecting consciousness, as well as our automatic responses to experience, that usually we are not aware of language when we speak or listen or write. But in using a foreign language we cannot at first avoid being aware of language symbols, and of attending to words, sentence…