CHENNAI: Learning science and technology in mother tongue till Class X will help students become better engineers, said Anna University

M K Surappa on Tuesday.

"In countries like Germany, France and Japan, which are advanced in science, children learn science in their respective mother tongues. By this, they are able to understand concepts better and move on," he added.

He was speaking to reporters here on Tuesday while making an announcement pertaining to the 18th edition of the '

Internet Conference'.

The conference will be organised by the varsity in association with the International Forum of Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) from September 20 to 22 this year.

The main theme of this conference will be Tamil robotics and language processing.

"One of the benefits of this theme is that it will encourage the development of assistive technologies in Tamil to support the differently abled to interact, learn, teach and perform their day-to-day social activities in a seamless manner," said a press release.

In addition to this, the conference will also accept papers in the areas of natural language processing, computer-aided learning and teaching of Tamil, Tamil internet, search engines and big data analysis, digital libraries, Tamil web development and content management.