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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 in education

Schooling challenges of multilingual children

Colours of the alphabet February 21 is International Mother Language Day and serves as an opportunity to discuss and promote the use of first-language medium education. The United Nations Educational,…
Language learning

Who profits from an early start in English?

Who profits from an early start in English language learning? 不要讓你的孩子輸在起跑點上 (Don’t let your children lose out at the starting point.) is one of the most popular slogans whenever English…
Language and social justice

Can speaking dialect make you ugly?

The link between language and identity is a subject written about most profusely by linguists, and it never seems to fall into obsolescence. Yet, novelists manipulate the association between language…
Multilingual families
Cost of monolingualism: $254,000
Language in education
Does a language have to be European to be ‘modern’?
Intercultural communication
Communicating passion for fashion
Language in Australia
Heritage language education in Australia and Sweden
Language at work
Foreign nurses face the Kanji hurdle
Language learning
In search of a language and an identity