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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

Children of the harvest: schooling, class and race

Children of migrant cotton field workers from Oklahoma (Source: Library of Congress) I’ve just come across a fascinating article about the schooling of migrant children during the Great Depression era…
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.…
Intercultural communication

Eating, othering and bonding

Yucky worms or yummy treats? When I arrived in the UK from Poland in 2004, I did not know that prawns even existed. During our first dubious encounter, I categorized…
Intercultural communication
Why the linguist needs the historian
Language in Australia
Language and migration workshop
Language learning
Saudi women, polygamy and ESL
Intercultural communication
Where are you from?
Language and migration
A Tamil Hindu Temple in Australia
English as a global language
English propaganda creates blind spots