Mother tongue medium of instruction at junior secondary Education in Jaffna – advantages and limitations

Abstract

Only through the mother tongue a student is able to acquire properly the learning skills like listening, understanding, absorbing, and communicating. Consideration of educational principles and psychology also stress the use of MT medium instruction in education. Now a days the importance of MT instruction has been understood, even though some confusions are there among the people in deciding the MOI at school level. In this respect this study proposes to identify the opinion of the students and teachers at junior secondary education in Jaffna town schools regarding the advantages and limitation of MT medium instruction and it utilizes 155 students and 53 teachers as samples adopting normative survey methodology.