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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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Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual mismatch

Auburn parking ticket (left: quadrilingual on back; right: city logo on front) In Australia with its persistent monolingual mindset coming across any kind of official institutional multilingual communication always feels…
Language and social justice

Language, lies and statistics

Speak English, people! says British politician Ed Miliband (Source: msn.com) Every ten years the UK government conducts a census, which every British resident is obliged by law to take part…
Language in education

How to solve Australia’s language learning crisis

Demand action from our politicians to make a LOTE compulsory! The state of language learning in Australian schools is dire. This weekend the Sydney Morning Herald carried an article entitled “Why students are…
Multilingual families
How to maintain Mongolian in Australia?
Language in education
Schooling challenges of multilingual children
Language and migration
A Tamil Hindu Temple in Australia
Language learning
Learning a language the easy way
Language and migration
Learn English, Make Friends!
Language learning
Gaining a Green Thumb for Grassroots Language Activism