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Patriots and traitors
Much of my work in recent years around language learning and migrant settlement has questioned the straightforward link between language learning and settlement success. Policy makers as well as migrants themselves assume that a key factor that keeps migrants out … Continue reading
Posted in Language, migration & social justice
Tagged Australia, interpreting, Iraq, language at war, Language at work, Migration, translation
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Condoms in translation
It’s been impossible to escape this week’s media coverage of the pope’s comments about condoms and male prostitutes. There has been a lot of debate about what he really said in the German original and about the quality of the … Continue reading
Posted in Language & globalization
Tagged English, gender, German, Italian, Latin, Multilingualism, translation
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Providing bilingual education since 1689
I’ve been teaching about bilingualism for more than a decade and when I speak about bilingual education and dual-immersion programs I draw on examples from Canada and the USA. These are the examples that fill the literature and the textbooks. … Continue reading
Posted in Multilingual academics
Tagged academic literacies, bilingual education, Bilingualism, Canada, English, English as a Global Language, French, German, Germany, globalization, immersion education, Intercultural Communication, Japan, Japanese, language ideologies, Monolingualism, Multiculturalism, Multilingualism, Spanish, translation, USA
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What did Angela Merkel really say?
If you read English-language news, you could be forgiven for thinking that Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel recently came out strongly against multiculturalism and immigration. You could be forgiven, but you’d be wrong! The incident makes me wish once again English-language … Continue reading
Multilingualism 2.0
The social networking market research site Inside Facebook has some intriguing language stats. In July, the fastest-growing languages on Facebook were Portuguese, Arabic, Spanish and French. The Portuguese growth rate was a staggering 11.8%. Arabic grew by 9.2%, Spanish by … Continue reading