A MOTHER TO KNOW THE OTHER – THE ROLE OF MOTHER TONGUE IN THE SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM:

The mother tongue plays a vital role in the second language classroom. But the teachers in the government schools in India completely replace the use of target language by the mother tongue due to lack of proficiency in the second language and lack of training. However mother tongue could be employed in a more useful ways by giving equal importance to the target language as well. This article provides evidence of the role of L1 in L2 classroom in a mutually productive way.