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be a positive one. The negative aspect of the teaching work will include the undoing of the wrong influences of the heme and the community in speech and writing. The mother-tongue, in its spoken form at home and in the community, is not only full of colloquialisms but also regional variations. Before my visit to England I had imagined that in the whole of the British Isles there was one uniform way of speaking the English language. But when I visited the different parts of the country, I discovered there were regional variations. I was left wondering which was the standard form. In the United States where English has been accepted as the language of the nation with certain modifications, the variations in speech result from two factors. One is, that the Americans have developed a basic speech pattern with inflections, modulations and pauses, determined more or less uniformly. Another is, that even within this uniformity there is influence of the original mother-tongue of the community. A predominantly Italian community domiciled in an area shows itself up by the way ít speaks the national language which has also become the commurity’s mother tongue. There can be no denying the fact that there are regional variations in respect of Tamil speech also. Certain mistakes of speech are perpetuated in each area, and Professor Reddiar has listed these. The function of the teacher is to wean the learner from such incorrect habits as may be inculcated in the home and community environment of the learner. The positive role relates to the inculcation of the right language habits, But even the best teaching by the ablest teacher can only be a beginning. It must be completed by the reading of the three types of reading material suggested by Professor Reddiar. No modern educationist will underrate the value of library reading as integral to the