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Public-interest campaign

Teach the mother tongue

More trained teachers and shared materials for weekend and community schools in Persian and the other languages of Iran.

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Status
Proposed
Milestones
1 of 3
Countries
All
Decision
D10

01Why it matters

Heritage schools run on volunteers. Most work alone, without a shared curriculum or training.

02What we ask

  1. 1

    Volunteer to teach or assist at a school near you.

  2. 2

    Take the teacher training course.

  3. 3

    Share your school’s teaching materials under an open licence.

03Milestones

  1. Teacher training course outlinedDone
  2. First teacher cohortPlanned
  3. Shared library of teaching materialsPlanned

04Where

Every country programme.

05Learn

  • Persian language · Foundations

    Persian script and reading (ZWNJ, nasta’liq)

    Reading and writing the Persian script, from letter shapes to the half-space and nasta’liq.

    Wave 1 · 20 h Outline drafted

  • Persian language · Foundations

    Persian A1

    First steps in spoken and written Persian for everyday life.

    Wave 1 · 40 h Outline drafted

  • Heritage language education · Practitioner

    Saturday-school teacher training

    Teaching Persian to children of the diaspora in weekend and community schools.

    Wave 1 · 30 h Outline drafted

06Rules this campaign keeps

  • Non-partisan. IDCDC does not campaign for or against any party, candidate, faction or armed actor.
  • No fundraising. Campaigns never collect or route money.
  • No pressure. Nobody is told how to vote, answer or believe.
  • Lawful everywhere. Every action is legal where it takes place.
  • Safe by design. No lists of supporters are published. You choose what you share.
  • Evidence first. Every claim carries its source and label.
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APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Teach the mother tongue. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/civic/campaigns/teach-the-mother-tongue/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Teach the Mother Tongue.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/civic/campaigns/teach-the-mother-tongue/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_civic_campaigns_teach_the_mother_tongue,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Teach the mother tongue},
	url = {https://iranians.global/civic/campaigns/teach-the-mother-tongue/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/civic/campaigns/teach-the-mother-tongue/},
}

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07Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Heritage language learners’ language availability and choice: A case study of primary school Persian learners in Australia

    Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani, Dara Tafazoli · 2025 · Foreign Language Annals

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND

  2. A case study of primary school Persian heritage language learners in Australia

    Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani · 2022 · Macquarie University

    ThesisDataCiteOpenAIRE

  3. The Right to Education in Mother Tongue: Anti-Inequality Education (SDG4) in Iran

    Farzaneh Jariani · 2021 · Unpublished

    ArticleDataCite

  4. Education in mother tongue in the formal education of Iran: Opportunity or threat?

    Āzād Allāh Karami, Khadije Aliābādi, Rezāmorād Sahrāyi et al. · 2018 · فصلنامه نوآوری‌های آموزشی

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  5. Persian as a Heritage Language

    Anousha Sedighi · 2018 · Oxford Handbooks Online

    BookCrossref

  6. Influences of language input and production on the language skills of Persian-English bilingual immersion preschool children

    Bita Payesteh, Lizbeth H. Finestack · 2020 · Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  7. Linguistic competence of Persian heritage versus second language speakers

    Karine Megerdoomian · 2020 · The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian

    ChapterCrossref

  8. Linguistic Markers of Affect in Heritage Persian: A Linguistic Anthropological Study among Persian Heritage Language Students and Their Teachers

    Saeid Atoofi · 2013 · Iranian Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  9. The Linguistic Markers of Persian Heritage Language Speakers: Evidence from the Classroom

    John Moore, Elham Sadegholvad · 2013 · Heritage Language Journal

    ArticleCrossref

  10. The role of informal heritage language learning in program building: Persian community school language learners in Australia

    Robyn Moloney, Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani · 2017

    ArticleOpenAlex

  11. The Implementation of Music in Teaching Persian Heritage Speaking Students in International Schools: The Case of Persian Students in Dubai

    Fatemeh Faroughi, Ilona Dóra Dabney-Fekete, Foroozan Hajian · 2025 · Central European Journal of Educational Research

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY

  12. Students’ and Parents’ Language Ideologies Reshaping Classroom Language Policies in a Persian Heritage-Language Class

    Susan Ataei Masjedloo · 2020 · Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting

    ArticleCrossref

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