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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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Language and tourism

English in Myanmar

English textbook used at the non-Government school “I take a bilingual approach, so you might not understand some parts of my class. But I hope you’ll enjoy it.” Dressed in…
Multilingual families

Jasmin Tabatabai: German, Persian and English in Tehran and Berlin

I enjoy reading the (auto)biographies of multilinguals. The current issue of Begegnung (“Encounter”), the magazine of German International Schools, has a feature about one of my favorite actors, Jasmin Tabatabai.…
Language in Australia

The burden of multilingualism in Australia

English-Only Australia? (Source: blogs.crikey.com.au) In recent Australian political conversation, there is an increasingly bipartisan recognition of the value of cultural and linguistic diversity. So it’s fair to ask, what is…
Language learning
Japanese lessons learnt from Velcro tape
Language and law
Telling stories? Credibility in asylum interviews
Intercultural communication
“Made in Germany” at risk? Volkswagen and the German trademark
Language and globalization
Lent, Language, and Faith Work
Language learning
Partnering for the Future
Intercultural communication
The banal nationalism of intercultural communication advice