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  Mother Tongue……. A Valuable Support for English Language Teaching The use of the mother-tongue in an English classroom should not be a taboo, but the students` knowledge of the mother-tongue should put to good use. For example, mother-tongue can be profitably used to give instructions to the beginners, to explain meanings of the certain words like abstract nouns, to test comprehension at the early stage, to teach grammar and to tell the distinction between mother-tongue and English sounds.The knowledge of the mother-tongue is a valuable aid to the teaching of English. P.Gurrey says, “The teaching of the mother-tongue and the teaching of a foreign language can support and assist each other…and whether the language is the mother tongue or a foreign language, some of the principle underlying those methods will be the same,” W.M. Ryburn holds the view that the mother-tongue can be of the greatest assistance, directly and indirectly. He says, “If sufficient attention is paid to the

  What is an Education? - An Introduction, Implications Until the twentieth century, teacher received relatively little preparation and had little say in terms of their employment. Teacher training consisted of one or two years and sometimes less at a teacher training college, and teachers had to follow strict rules and regulations concerning their behavior outside the school. Unorganized and isolated from one another, teachers could be summarily dismissed by a board of education. Now eras of education have been changed. Today, teachers seek to be professionals with expert–in-skills, style, and knowledge concerning instruction content and method in their particular fields. In addition they are well organized as groups that have gained greater rights to be judged on their work performance, attitude and behavior inside the classroom rather than on their attitude and behavior outside the classroom. Often, too, they participate in decisions making about work conditions. In many cas