NEP and use of mother tongue in teacher education – UGC NET Question

NEP 2020 stresses that teachers must be able to teach in the language children understand best, especially in the early years. Teacher education should therefore develop skills for rich, interactive teaching in mother tongue/local languages and also build competence in additional languages like English.

Option A:
Option A is incorrect because an English-only focus would undermine NEP’s strong recommendation for mother tongue-based education in early grades.

Option B:
Option B is correct as it reflects NEP’s integrated language vision: effective use of local languages plus capacity to teach additional languages.

Option C:
Option C is incorrect since ignoring language issues would leave teachers unprepared for multilingual classrooms and contradict NEP’s language policy.

Option D:
Option D is incorrect because training teachers merely to translate textbooks word-for-word does not meet the pedagogical goals of meaningful bilingual or multilingual teaching.