Lian Inan / Lingua Materna / Mother Tongue

Photo @ Language in Education Working Group Launch - 28 April, 2010

• Advocacy Kit for Promoting Multilingual Education: Including the Excluded 
• Tetum brochure on Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education - produced by the National Education Commission of Timor-Leste 
• Educação Multilingue (Summer Institute of Linguistics) 
• Educação Multilingue Com Base na Lingua Materna nas Filipinas/ Edukasaun Bazeia ba Lian-Inan iha Rai Filipinas/Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education in the Philippines 
• Peskiza kona ba Edukasaun Bilingue iha Mocambique"O propósito e valor da educação bilingue" / "Purpose and value of bilingual education" - English & Portuguese (do Boletim do Projecto "Language in Education in Africa" - Abril 2010)

Mother tongue based multilingual education seems the way forward in Pakistan, where diverse ethnic identities lag behind in the rat race in which rats know no language but English 

Can you understand the words I utter?