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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 migration

Triumph over trauma: new migrant memoir

Congratulations to Rosemary Kariuki OAM on the publication of her memoir A Joyful Life! The Australian of the Year 2021 Local Hero Awardee and recipient of the Order of Australia…
Language and tourism

English in Myanmar

English textbook used at the non-Government school “I take a bilingual approach, so you might not understand some parts of my class. But I hope you’ll enjoy it.” Dressed in…
Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual Tokyo

I had been led to believe that Japan was a very monolingual place interspersed with Engrish ads, commercial signage and T-shirts. Well, that has turned out to be just another…
Language at work
Grassroots multilingualism
Multilingual histories
Reading and mind control
Language and migration
Stereotyped ethnic names as a barrier to workplace entry
Language at work
Foreign nurses face the Kanji hurdle
Intercultural communication
The long conversation: Australia and China
Language politics
Debating refugee credibility