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Language in education

Do monolingual teachers produce a Golem effect in multilingual students?

Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher expectations result in students’ lower academic performance. The positive effect…
Language politics

Debating refugee credibility

Manus Hospital often treats refugees (Image credit: ABC News, Natalie Whiting) A growing body of literature across multiple disciplines attests to the importance of credibility in the bureaucratic processes for…
Language politics

Brexit and the politics of English

Editor's note: As the world anxiously anticipates the outcome of the US presidential election next week - and the consequences it will have for global politics - we've asked the…
Language and social justice
Visiting the Ausländerbehörde
English as a global language
وی نات شیپ تو راشا
Intercultural communication
Love on the Move: How Tinder is changing the way we date
Multilingual families
Free language choice?!
Language and tourism
Finding Switzerland in Japan
Language politics
“I regret having named him Sahil”: Urdu names in India