Mean of Monolingual, Multilingual, Lingual Franca, Mothers tongue, Foreign language

Mean of Monolingual, Multilingual, Lingual Franca, Mothers tongue, Foreign language

 Monolingual: Able to speak and understand only one language, using or expressed in only one language E.g. Mother Tongue   Multilingual  Able to speak and understand several languages,  1: of having, or expressed in several languages. 2: using or able to use several languages especially with equal fluency.  Lingual Franca  Any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages  (initial capital letter) the Italian –Provencal Jargon (with elements of Spanish, French, Greek, Arabic and Turkish) formerly widely used in eastern Mediterranean ports.   Mothers tongue  A first language (also native language, father tongue/mother tongue, arterial language, or L1) is the language or are the language a person has been exposed to from birth . With the critical period, or that a person speaks the best and so is often the basis for sociolinguistic identity (citation needed). In some countries, the terms native language or mother tongue refer to the language of one’s ethnic group rather than one’s first language.  Foreign language A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country.  Language 1 A first language (also native language, father tongue/mother tongue, arterial language, or Language 1) is the language or are the language a person has been exposed to from birth . Language 2 By contrast, a second language is any language that one speaks other than one’s first language.  E.g. Arabic English, French in Yoruba Land. Mothers tongue  A first language (also native language, father tongue/mother tongue, arterial language, or L1) is the language or are the language a person has been exposed to from birth . Children brought up speaking more than one language can have more than one native language, and be bilingual.   Medium of instruction The medium of instruction is the language used by the teacher to teach. Teaching the language, or educational content, through the target increases the amount of exposure the learner gets to it, and the opportunities they have to communicate in it, and therefore to develop their control of it.  Example    Indigenous language   An indigenous language is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous people, often reduced to the status of a minority language. (Citation needed) this language would be form a linguistically distinct community that has been settled in the area for many generations. Indigenous languages are not necessarily national languages, and the reverse is also true. Many indigenous people worldwide have stopped passing on their ancestral language to the next generation, and have instead adopted the majority language as part of their acculturation into the majority culture.