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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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English as a global language

Reading to learn in another language

A non-fluent Latin reader painstakingly worked her way through this text “Man is an obligate aerobe”, I recently read in a medicine book for general readers (Nuland, 1993). The phrase…
Language and migration

Life in a language you are still learning

Mis dos voces (Image credit: Rayon Verde) Imagine this: you go out to a fast-food restaurant and order a burger. While you wait for your order to be filled, you…
Language learning

Linguistic extremism

I know some people think what I am doing with my daughters – speaking German to them one-hundred percent of  the time even though German is a second language for…
Language at work
Language and the stratification of restaurant labour
Language politics
Advocating for linguistic diversity
Multilingual families
What if I lose my language? What if I have lost my language?
Language in Australia
English language proficiency and national cohesion
Linguistic landscapes
نام های تجاریِ نویسه گردان
Language politics
What’s in a name?