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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

Schooling challenges of multilingual children

Colours of the alphabet February 21 is International Mother Language Day and serves as an opportunity to discuss and promote the use of first-language medium education. The United Nations Educational,…
Language and law

Frightful language tests

Trial by fire depicted in a medieval manuscript (Source: Wikipedia) In the Middle Ages those suspected of witchcraft were often subjected to a ‘trial by fire’ to prove their innocence…
Language learning

Is there such a thing as postmodern bilingual education?

I’m not a big fan of what I call “breathless academic postmodernism,” or what I view as the often naïve valorization of, among other things, hybridization, creolization, liminality, polysemy, multiplicity,…
English as a global language
Seeing Asians speaking English
English as a global language
انگلیسی، آن نا-زبان
Language and migration
Home is where I’m alienated*
Language and law
Forgotten and invisible? The legal protection of refugees with disabilities
English as a global language
British Royal Wedding in Iran
Multilingual families
Names on the move: Ghanaian names in the Diaspora