alleryNCERT says failure to read one's mother tongue:
ABoosts second-language reading
BHarms second-language reading
CHas no link to reading skill
DHelps only spoken English
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Harms second-language reading
1. Higher-order linguistic skills generalise across languages.
2. Reading is a transferable skill, so improving it in one language improves it in others.
3. In the same way, mother-tongue reading failure adversely affects second-language reading.
4. So failure in the first language does not help the second.
**Why not the others:** Failure in the first language does not strengthen or leave unchanged the second-language reading; it harms it.
_Source: NCERT, Position Paper of the National Focus Group on Teaching of English (2006), section "Executive Summary", PDF p. 4 (ncert.nic.in/pdf/focus-group/english.pdf)_
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