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Language and tourism

English in the Global Village

Yangshuo's West Street (Source: chinatravelca) Tourism has been found to be beneficial for minority language maintenance in a number of contexts from around the world. For instance, Anand Torrents Alcaraz…
English as a global language

Global toys in a local world

Recently, I had occasion to visit a toy store in Isfahan to buy a present for my seven-year-old cousin, who had invited me to his birthday party. Grand, impressive and…
Language and migration

Linguistic diversity and “cosmopolitan bias”

One of the consequences of the recent upsurge in nationalist politics around the world has been a rise in attacks on the idea of linguistic diversity. As national language ideologies…
Language in education
Translanguaging the English language curriculum in Tibet
Language learning
The monolingual myth
Language learning
What is “Competent English”?
Language learning
Why Are Uzbek Youth Learning Arabic?
Language and migration
Bitter gifts: migrants’ exclusive inclusion
Language and social justice
Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice in Persian