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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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Intercultural communication

‘I’m not listening to you!’ Interacting in a linguistically diverse society

Manus Island Detention Centre, where Faysal Ishak Ahmed collapsed (Source: ABC News) On December 23, 2016, as most Australians were winding down for the holiday week ahead, Faysal Ishak Ahmed,…
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…
English as a global language

Gay men, English and desire in Bangkok

Gay men, English and desire in Bangkok I have recently begun working on my MA thesis on sexuality and second language learning at the Graduate School of English, Assumption University…
English as a global language
Is English improving lives in a remote Indonesian village?
Linguistic landscapes
Transliterated brand names
Linguistic landscapes
Finding Pakistan in Global Britain
English as a global language
Eurovision
English as a global language
Barbarous multilingual devil worshippers
Language and social justice
Language, Education and Settlement: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography on, with, and for Africans in Australia