Today is International Mother Language Day. The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day was the initiative of Bangladesh. It was approved at the 1999 UNESCO General Conference and has been observed throughout the world since 2000.
As part of the day’s celebrations UNESCO is hosting a webinar “Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities”, which will discuss the potential role of technology to advance multilingual education and support the development of quality teaching and learning for all.
The webinar will explore the following two main themes:
- Enhancing the role of teachers in the promotion of quality multilingual teaching and learning.
- Reflecting on technologies and its potential to support multilingual teaching and learning
“Technology can provide new tools for protecting linguistic diversity. Such tools, for example, facilitating their spread and analysis, allow us to record and preserve languages which sometimes exist only in oral form. Put simply, they make local dialects a shared heritage. However, because the Internet poses a risk of linguistic uniformization, we must also be aware that technological progress will serve plurilingualism only as long as we make the effort to ensure that it does“.
— Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day
International Mother Language Day
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