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Language learning

Hottest English teaching method

Carrie Chen's successful chalk-and-talk method In my previous post, I discussed the celebrity status of star teachers in Taiwan. Although their good looks and personality do play a key role…
English as a global language

How do universities decide whose English needs to be tested for admission?

(Image credit: Mana Akbarzadegan via Unsplash) When Muhammad* applied for admission to a postgraduate degree at an Australian university, he was asked to show evidence of his English language proficiency.…
Language and social justice

Can speaking dialect make you ugly?

The link between language and identity is a subject written about most profusely by linguists, and it never seems to fall into obsolescence. Yet, novelists manipulate the association between language…
Language in Australia
Australia’s Asia Literacy Debate
Language and globalization
Becoming Diasporically Moroccan
Multilingual families
English only on this American playground please
Language and globalization
Interpreting English language ideologies in Korea: dreams vs. realities
Multilingual families
Names on the move: Ghanaian names in the Diaspora
Multilingual families
German-English vs. Spanish-English