Kurdish as a Mother Tongue: Challenges, Policies, and Prospects

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Faculty:Education
Department: ELT
Type of the workshop: International workshop

The workshop in brief:
• The workshop highlighted the importance of preserving mother language.
• It taught participants how to understand the principles of mother language and the policy that manages the mother language.

Participants: 34 participants, primarily undergraduate students.

Date and time: February 18, 2025, at 13:00
Place: TIUS Campus, Conference Hall

Session topics: 
• Is one language variation more prestigious than another?
• The importance of mother language and its basic guidelines to deal with it.
• Language Policy and the Future of the Kurdish
• The historical background of international mother language day.

Presenters names and affiliations:
1. Assoc. Prof. Dr, Twana Hamid, Sulaimani University, Kurdish Department.
2. Prof. Dr. Shelan Omer, Sulaimani University.
3. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sazzad Zahid, Islamic University, Kushita, Bangladesh.
4. Mr. Atta Ahmed, TIUS, English language teaching

Outcome of the workshop:
• The mother language is the identity of any individual.
• Internalizing mother language day needed revolution.
• All governments should have a policy to manage their mother languages.

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