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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 globalization

Thinking language with chocolate

  Easter chocolates in the supermarket (Image credit: Wikimedia) I’ve been thinking a lot about chocolate lately. Maybe because it is Easter and supermarkets in my part of the world…
Intercultural communication

New ways to answer old questions about Ramadan

Image 1 Like many parents of teenagers, I delightedly welcome any occasion to connect with a generation I don’t always understand and that doesn’t always understand me. As a Muslim…
Language and social justice

The native speaker concept

In my own research, I have frequently run into difficulty in talking about a ‘native speaker’. What criteria must be met to be ‘native’? How can I, as a researcher,…
Language and social justice
Language deficit in super-diversity
Language and globalization
Banal cosmopolitanism
Chats in Linguistic Diversity
What does it mean to govern a multilingual society well?
Language learning
Korean beats French
Language politics
Languages of the heart
Language learning
Schools transforming multilinguals into illiterates?