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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

Is language learning on the job the best way to learn a new language?

Meat workers, Fletcher Abattoir (Source: SheepCRC) One of the most famous research subjects to ever have participated in second language learning research is a man known in the literature as…
Language learning

Selling English tuition

Business card promoting private English tuition In Iran, as in many other countries around the globe, the craze for learning English has been on the rise. This tendency is attributed…
Language in education

Educational outcomes of migrant children

Migrant children studying in a Brazilian school in Japan (Source: Japan Times) A recent study of the educational pathways of the children of Brazilian migrants in Japan offers a most…
Multilingual histories
Pronunciation: A Matter of Life and Death
Language and social justice
The Sociolinguistics of Late Modern Publics
Intercultural communication
Do bilinguals express different emotions in different languages?
Language in Australia
Heritage language education in Australia and Sweden
Language and social justice
Crossing borders or carrying borders?
Language at work
How (not) to address airline passengers