"I wish you would teach in Arabic," a student tells me. She takes my breath away: that language barrier again. So familiar. About year ago, following an ongoing struggle with academic English, I returned to Hebrew, reclaiming the freedom of writing and speech, even at cost sharing thoughts wider audience, publishing texts, achieving more recognition. This critical essay describes experience non...

This article draws on an interview study with teachers and teacher educators on the topic of the feasibility of task-based teaching for implementation in schools. It focuses on a single theme from the study: student use of the mother tongue. A number of dimensions are addressed: the extent of classroom interaction in English in the context under review; informants’ perspectives on mother tongue...

CONTEXT To compare family physicians' ability to retain information when reading a review article on paper vs on screen, and in their mother tongue vs in English. METHODS Randomized trial of 114 Scandinavian family physicians who read a review article in October or November 2000 from the Journal of Trauma for 10 minutes either on paper and in English, on screen and in English, on paper in the...

OBJECTIVE: There is limited and inconsistent evidence concerning rural versus urban differences in birth and infant outcomes for Indigenous peoples. We assessed birth and infant outcomes among Inuit, First Nations and French mother tongue groups by rural versus urban residence in Quebec, Canada. STUDY DEIGN: A retrospective birth cohort study of 5,184 First Nations, 2,527 Inuit and 652,940 Fre...

This paper presents an investigation into the relationship between individuals’ attitudes towards their mother tongue and lexical attrition. The is based on data from a study wherein 10 Kurdish-Turkish bilinguals were asked to narrate well-known story in of Kurdish. These individuals selected among 104 participants according score Mother Tongue Attitude Scale (MTAS), scale used determine attitu...

Mother tongue interference is the phenomenon where linguistic systems of a mother tongue are transferred to another language. Recently, Nagata and Whittaker (2013) have shown that language family relationship among mother tongues is preserved in English written by IndoEuropean language speakers because of mother tongue interference. At the same time, their findings further introduce the followi...