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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

Does a language have to be European to be ‘modern’?

Top 10 languages other than English spoken in England and Wales, 2011 (Source: ONS) Modern languages are not merely European languages. Obvious as this may seem, it needs restating as…
Language learning

Character challenge

So much hot air: the character for "meeting" consists of the one for "cloud" under a roof Before my recent visit to Wuhan and Hong Kong I was planning to…
English as a global language

Barbarous multilingual devil worshippers

I’ve just run a search for the terms “multilingual” and “multilingualism” in the National Library of Australia’s archive of Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803-1954. In the process, I have learnt that…
Intercultural communication
Conversations in Hong Kong
Language and tourism
English in Iran
Language and globalization
Thinking language with chocolate
Language in education
Refugee children left behind as eagle lands on the moon
Language in Australia
Multiculturalism without multilingualism
Language learning
Who profits from an early start in English?