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Language Rights Defenders Award

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940-2023) The Global Coalition for Language Rights is pleased to announce the first annual Language Rights Defenders Award. This award aims to recognize and honor individuals who demonstrate…
Gerald Roche
March 28, 2024

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English as a global language

India in Arabia

Yesterday I spoke with a study agent here in the UAE and he told me that Australian universities trying to attract students from the GCC region just didn’t get the…
Language in education

Refugee children left behind as eagle lands on the moon

Yesterday, the New York Times carried a heart-breaking story about an exceptional school principal forced from her position under No-Child-Left-Behind legislation in order for the school district to obtain federal…
Multilingual histories

How to end native speaker privilege

Native and non-native teachers at Lord Harris' School, Royapett, Madras, 1865 (Source: British Library) For some time now, a debate has been raging in TESOL about the relative merits of…
Intercultural communication
The colonial cringe in academia
Language politics
Advocating for linguistic diversity
Language and migration
Discourses of Integration: Language, Skills, and the Politics of Difference
Multilingual histories
Reading and mind control
Language and migration
Linguistic diversity and “cosmopolitan bias”
Language in Australia
Language and migration workshop