When the Mother Tongue Is Not the Medium: Language Transitions and the Loss of a Child’s First Voice

India has hundreds of home languages. Its schools teach in a fraction of them. The gap between what a child speaks at home and what the teacher speaks at school is one of education’s most underestimated harms. Prof. Suhasini Bhattacharya  |  Applied linguist and teacher educator, specialising in multilingual classrooms When a four-year-old from a […]