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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 at work

Monolingualism is bad for the economy

Losing their heritage language decreases the earning potential of 2nd-generation migrants In most countries of immigration, linguistic diversity is by and large ignored by policy makers. If there are language-related…
Language and law

Language learning is integral to practice-based legal education

Language learning is integral to practice-based legal education, and needs to be given more attention in research and course design. That’s the key message of my recently published article about…
Language and migration

Learn English, Make Friends!

How to make English-speaking friends is one of the perennial hot topics for new overseas students and new migrants. Advice on how to make “native” friends circulates like an underground…
Language and social justice
Many tongues instead of one!
Language learning
In search of a language and an identity
Intercultural communication
Building bridges in a divided world
Language and globalization
Banal cosmopolitanism
Language and social justice
Why a multilingual social imagination matters
Language in Australia
Heritage language education in Australia and Sweden