SCIENCE COMMUNICATION THROUGH URDU LANGUAGE

In this paper author try to establish the relationship of science communication with the mother tongue. The child starts learning with their mother tongue because child learns the things and established relationship with the language and the object from the lap of the mother. Ghandhigi realized that the greatest handicap of the prevailing system of education was that learning was being imparted through the medium of English. If we taught the children in other language rather than mother tongue it will affect the understanding level, precision of thought and clarity of ideas. On the other hand Mother tongue would enable the children to understand the rich heritage of people's ideas, emotions and aspirations, to express freely, he express his ideas in easy way and understandable. He or she will be able to express his views in speaking and writing. The student will able to use the list of contents and the indices, and to consult dictionaries and reference books in his own language. The national poet and Nobel laureate Ravindra Nath Taigore express his views in support of mother tongue when the Nizam of Hyderabad established Osmaniya University and makes its medium of instruction Urdu. Thus the Urdu plays an important role in communicating and understanding the science. Here we discuss the role of Urdu in science communication.