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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 Australia

Australia’s Asia Literacy Debate

Australia in Asia (Source: unitingworld.org.au) Since starting a PhD in February in a different field to my previous work, I’ve been running a weekly alert with the words “language” and…
English as a global language

How do universities decide whose English needs to be tested for admission?

(Image credit: Mana Akbarzadegan via Unsplash) When Muhammad* applied for admission to a postgraduate degree at an Australian university, he was asked to show evidence of his English language proficiency.…
Language and social justice

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice in Persian

The translator of the Persian version of Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice, Dr Saeed Rezaei The Persian translation of Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice (2016, Oxford University Press) has just…
Language learning
Mother Language Day in East Timor
Language and social justice
Foreign language learning for minority empowerment?
Language and globalization
Do you ever wear language?
Language learning
Schools transforming multilinguals into illiterates?
Language and law
Language and Indigenous Disadvantage
Language and social justice
Are debates over linguistic rights erasing diversity?