Int'l Mother Tongue Day finds most Middle Eastern children multilingual
Speaking one language in school and speak another at home can be a "big problem" but new approaches could help, expert says.
Students attend class in the Nafit 1, a modern school built with the aid of a grant from Kuwait, in Basra, southeast of Baghdad November 2, 2014. A country that used to have one of the finest education systems in the Middle East is struggling to provide school students with the basic opportunity to (photo credit: REUTERS/ESSAM AL-SUDANI)ByMARCY OSTER/THE MEDIA LINE
