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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

Explorations in language shaming

At the recent 16th International Conference on Minority Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, I delivered a keynote lecture about “language shaming”. By “language shaming”, I mean (social) media…
English as a global language

Internationalization as Englishization

  Graduating students at Anadolu University (Source: Anadolu University) The process of internationalization of education has been a pivotal issue across the world, in particular with regards to the higher…
Language politics

Advocating for linguistic diversity

Linguistic diversity is a demographic reality, as Dr Alexandra Grey pointed out in her presentation This week, Professor Lisa Lim and her colleagues from Sydney University’ School of Languages and Cultures…
Language and law
We all have a culture, we all speak a language: the Australian legal system discusses diversity
Language in education
Let’s reclaim our language!
Intercultural communication
Temples helping heritage language maintenance in Australia
Language and social justice
Are debates over linguistic rights erasing diversity?
Language at work
Language and the stratification of restaurant labour
Language and social justice
Taking over the squares