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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 at work

Money talks

Those of us in the broad area of TESOL often labor under the assumption of the invincibility of English hegemony. Whether they deplore it or exult in it, many people…
Language learning

Is there such a thing as postmodern bilingual education?

I’m not a big fan of what I call “breathless academic postmodernism,” or what I view as the often naïve valorization of, among other things, hybridization, creolization, liminality, polysemy, multiplicity,…
Multilingual histories

The devil’s handwriting

How is your Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge coming along? Another month has passed and you should have ticked off the second book from our list. I read George Steinmetz’ The Devil’s…
English as a global language
Bodies on the Move: Salsa, Language and Transnationalism
Language learning
Japanese women on the move
English as a global language
What’s next for the Queen’s English?
Language and globalization
From oil spill to Brexit
Language and globalization
Urban sociolinguistics in Dubai
Multilingual histories
What makes foreigners weird? A quick guide to orientalism