There are three main reasons why improvement in the teaching of the mother tongue is highly desirable. First, improvement in handling language is directly favorable to improvement in all kinds of thinking, such as reasoning and other mental operations that make use of words. Second, nearly all children need instruction and specially devised practice in the use of their mother tongue in order to acquire the ability to express themselves with clarity, ease and correctness. The third reason is that those children who acquire some skill in using their mother tongue, have had a good preparation for acquiring similar skills in using a foreign language.