Sheelan Huseen
Abstract
The paper entitled Studying the Mother Tongue and Building the Personality aims at describing and evaluating function and value of the mother tongue in building personality of its interlocutors ...
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The paper entitled Studying the Mother Tongue and Building the Personality aims at describing and evaluating function and value of the mother tongue in building personality of its interlocutors and users. The
most effective medium to embody this essential function would be the educational institutions, known as the capital of mother tongue usage, because the first community after family where children use language freely and unlimitedly is the educational field.
Mother tongue, the first language, is the first pattern of codes by which the childrens mind would implement language acquisition, through both acts of (language comprehension and language generation). The essential role of mother tongue is to be the significant channel that deals with mind, thoughts, thinking, and individual competences. The mother tongue both as method and reference is regarded like the stimulus, operator, and director of human mind, and through this perspective the dimensions of establishing personality of individuals would be based on the way the mother tongue is used in educational institutions.