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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

What’s next for the Queen’s English?

Official coronation portrait (Image credit: Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2015) The Queen and the English language are both unique within their categories. The Queen enjoyed special…
Multilingual families

The high price of multilingualism

The high price of multilingualism When society doesn’t value something you, as an individual, do, you, the individual, end up paying for society’s lack of valuation. That’s the case with…
Multilingual histories

Portrait of a linguistic shirker

I recently pointed out that the widespread belief that migrants refuse to learn the language of their new country does not stack up against the realities of adult language learning.…
Language politics
“I regret having named him Sahil”: Urdu names in India
Language and social justice
Can speaking dialect make you ugly?
Language learning
Behind a name
Language and globalization
放过中式英语吧!
Language at work
Critical Skills for Life and Work
English as a global language
Free language choice?