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English as a global language

English for everyone is unfair

Promoting English language learning: billboard for private early English instruction in Wuhan Knowledge of English has come to be seen as the key talent of the 21st century, a way…
Language and globalization

言語差別はいい加減に!

Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Japanese version of my recent blog post about Chinglish Translated by Kimie Takahashi (高橋 君江) このシナリオを想像してみてください。もしNew Yorkタイムズがブロンド女性を馬鹿にするジョークや黄色人種の面白エピソードを募集したとしたらどうでしょうか?さらにその応募キャンペーンが盛り上がり、ブログや Facebookやツイッターでそれが出回り、さらには、ジェンダー、エスニックの学者達がそれを取り上げ、「なぜブロンド女性や黄色人種はこんな馬鹿な ことをするのか」などと分析しだしたりしたらどうなるでしょうか? (more…)
Language learning

The monolingual myth

The monolingual myth This critique has been an important one but it runs into a problem when we consider the idea of monolingualism itself. At the same time that this…
Language at work
Foreign nurses face the Kanji hurdle
Language learning
Teachers Against Discrimination in Taiwan
Language in education
Learning to be marginal
Language in education
Schooling challenges of multilingual children
Language and tourism
Language strategy in the hospitality sector
Intercultural communication
Divine linguistic diversity