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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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Chats in Linguistic Diversity

Can we ever unthink linguistic nationalism?

In this latest installment of Chats in Linguistic Diversity, I talk to Professor Aneta Pavlenko about multilingualism through the ages. We start from the question whether the world today is…
Multilingual families

English only on this American playground please

I’ve written before that I’ve never had an experience in which someone responded negatively to me when I speak German to my daughters in public here in the United States.…
Language learning

Bilingualism delays onset of dementia

Multilingual Hyderabad (Source: Wikimedia) It is by now widely known that bilingualism delays the onset of dementia. What is less widely known is the fact that this knowledge is almost…
Language in education
Fences, language and education
Intercultural communication
Literacy and the differential value of knowledge
Intercultural communication
Japanese on the Move
Language politics
Minority languages on social media
Language and globalization
Anatomy of language shaming
English as a global language
Race to teach English