Essay About Multilingualism

But still many people are against multilingualism. So now I will illustrate many problems with multilingualism. While going through various research papers and journals on Multilingual Education, I found some fundamental problems which need to be understood better. Among those the most important one is the notion of “multilingual” itself. The way we understand it in academics is not the way Multilingual Education position papers and the policies have imagined it. Next major problem is the nature of the policy itself. The successful designing and the implementation of the stated policy in position papers depend largely on the very notion of common aspirations in the larger public sphere. Any tactic towards Multilingual Education is sure to fail

The problem is worst in a developing country like ours due to different intervening layers of various issues pertinent to economic growth and increasing population size. Many people are also trying to preserve their mother tongues. Many linguistic groups are arguing about the need to ensure that the member of new generation of their communities keep their linguistic tradition. Some governments, such as in the Philippines, have recently recognized language-in-education policies that embrace children’s first languages. A set of examples formed by UNESCO (2008b) confirms to rising interest in promoting mother tongue-based education, and to the wide variety of prototypes, tools, and resources now being developed and directed to sponsor learning programs in the mother tongue. This argument is not totally in against of multilingual education but it is trying to emphasis more attention to one’s mother language and is trying to convey that learning in mother language is more suitable for the learning. But our idea of multilingual education is to know different languages and to understand other linguistic culture, so that everything becomes more socialized in this globalized