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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 politics

Where is the Arabic?

Finally, today on Day 3 of our conference on Fostering Multiliteracies Through Education: Middle Eastern Perspectives someone asked “Where is the Arabic?” “How come a conference devoted to multilingualism and…
Language and globalization

Japanese in Yangon

Japan Store near the University of Yangon “Welcome to the Golden Guest Inn, Ms Takahashi! We've been expecting you!” A Chinese-Burmese man warmly welcomed me on my arrival at his…
Language and tourism

Finding Switzerland in Japan

As a non-speaker and non-reader of Japanese I went to Japan fully expecting to be confused. However, the only confusing moment I experienced had nothing to do with anything Japanese:…
Intercultural communication
Eating, othering and bonding
English as a global language
More on English in Iran
English as a global language
Italy in Karachi
Linguistic landscapes
Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual
Linguistic landscapes
Halloween Mystery
Language in education
Building bridges through multilingual schooling: a mother-tongue pilot in East Timor is showing the way