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Language and globalization

‘Detours’ taken by Mongols on WeChat

A monument near Baganuur (Outer Mongolia) with an inscription of poem "My Native Land" by Natsagdorj (Source: Wikipedia) In the middle school Mongolian textbooks there is a well-known text called…
English as a global language

Italy in Karachi

Pompei Restaurant, Karachi (Source: fcpakistan.com) A few days ago I had an Alice-in-Wonderland experience. Having lived all my life in Karachi, I had until then never heard of the Pompei…
Language and migration

Discrimination by any other name: Language tests and racist migration policy in Australia

Australia: The White Man's Land (Source: NLA) Australia has a proud national narrative of migration and multiculturalism. It also has an equally prevalent history of exclusionary and discriminatory migration policy.…
Multilingual families
Lost in bilingual parenting
Language politics
Language Politics and Policy in Contemporary Maharashtra
Language and law
Crucial communication: language management in Australian asylum interviews
English as a global language
Happy birthday, UAE!
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Multilingual histories
Portrait of a linguistic shirker
Hottest English teaching method. Carrie Chen
Language learning
Hottest English teaching method