THE NEED TO USE MOTHER TONGUE IN COMMUNICATION OF ETHNIC STUDENTS

Contributing to promoting the national cultural identity, in which developing and maintaining the existence of ethnic minority languages is one of the essential tasks. Currently, the languages of ethnic minorities are narrowed in scope and influence on social development, that is, ethnic minorities who speak ethnic minority languages are decreasing in number. In the early years of their lives, the language of ethnic minorities is something like the only language and the need to use the ethnic minority language as they mature is not frequent. Facing that fact, it is of particular importance to find out about the needs of ethnic minority students to use their native language. The paper examines the current situation of ethnic minority students' needs to use their native language in communication in the school from 2019 - 2020 through sociological surveys with the support of some teachers and 100 ethnic minority students. This article mentions and points out the current needs of ethnic minority students who use their native language in communication, which is the first language they know how to use.