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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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Multilingual histories

Herder: an explainer for linguists

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) Some contemporary sociolinguists love to hate an 18th century educator, philosopher, theologian, translator and general polymath by the name of Herder. Hardly a week goes by…
Language learning

هشدار: انگلیسی جهانی ممکن است به سلامت روانی شما آسیب برساند

Persian version of my recent blog post about the (over-)consumption of English language learning. Translated by زهره قرایی (Zohreh Gharaei)  حدود ده سال پیش یک دانشجوی خارجی که از کره ی…
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 and migration
Shopping while bilingual can make you sick
Language learning
What is “Competent English”?
Language and globalization
Who’s inward-looking?
Language politics
When your English is too good
Language learning
Mother Language Day in East Timor
Language at work
Money talks