AMU professor delivers a lecture at ISDL

ALIGARH  : In a special lecture delivered at the International School of Dravidian Linguistics (ISDL), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, on “Mother Tongue, Multilingualism and NEP-2020”, Prof M.J. Warsi, Chairman, Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University said that mother tongue plays a critical role in cognitive and intellectual development of a child and it needs to be prioritized in policy development to ensure more responsive and nuanced approaches that take into account the unique linguistic and cultural needs of learners.

He said that the main objective of the NEP-2020 is to make India a knowledge superpower by equipping its students with the necessary skills and knowledge and to eliminate the shortage of manpower in science, technology, academics and industry.

He emphasized that all efforts will be made to ensure that any gaps that exist between the language spoken by the child and the medium of teaching are bridged.