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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 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…
Intercultural communication

Do bilinguals really have two souls?

Media image for "the dual identity" of bilinguals (Source: Luxemburger Wort) We keep reading media reports of studies which conclude that people who speak more than one language are capable of perceiving…
Language learning

Korean beats French

If you could choose to learn a foreign language, which one would it be? And why? Such choices are usually constrained by what is on offer. However, someone must choose…
Language at work
English at work in Japan
Language and social justice
The Sociolinguistics of Late Modern Publics
Intercultural communication
旅游中的东方主义
Language and social justice
Is speaking English a civic duty?
Language and globalization
More on banal cosmopolitanism
Language at work
Tipsy on multilingualism?!