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Language barriers create a hidden but serious form of mobility exclusion, and the burden of adapting should fall on transit systems, not riders.
A rediscovered academic paper from 1921 suggests New Zealand’s classic ‘fush and chups’ vowel sounds may have emerged fastest in Auckland’s colonial melting pot.
Bubble, hoop, wiggle, bed: Some words bear an uncanny resemblance to the shape of the object or action they describe. And we tend to process them faster.
Diary-writers across history have expressed the sense of relief that writing from the heart can bring. Could English essays have the same benefits?
Throughout the history of the language, what has been considered ‘bad’ speech often becomes ‘proper.’ You just have to give it time.
Going to the Moon isn’t just about science. Novelist Jules Verne predicted some of the societal ramifications modern lunar missions are creating today.
A linguist explains what makes human English human, and why you shouldn’t overdo it with large language models.
Emerging from a swirl of sonic influences, reggaeton began as Panamanian protest music long before Puerto Rican artists turned the genre into a global phenomenon.
The UK government says tougher English rules will aid integration. Esol experts warn they risk turning language learning into a tool of exclusion.
Idioms are an often invisible barrier to understanding and inclusion for second-language speakers because their meanings rely on shared culture as well as language.
If Danish speakers experience hygge, then they should have a word to talk about it; if English speakers don’t, then we won’t.
Puerto Ricans like Bad Bunny complicate the administration’s campaign to portray America as an English-speaking, homogenous nation.
A new study shows large language models find it much harder to understand the nuances of Indian, British and Australian English.
Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language until now. But Americans will not stop using languages other than English because of an executive order.
More than three quarters of the world’s population do not speak the language in which the science about climate change is disseminated globally.
In a new study, we interviewed 59 Year 10 students with language or attention disorders about their English classrooms.
In some languages, spelling matches pronunciation, while in others (like English) this is far from true.
There is nothing to lose and plenty to gain in teaching Swift’s Midnights and Shakespeare’s Sonnets together. There’s no dumbing-down, and no need for reductive assertions about who is “better”.
Many English teachers are thinking seriously about how gaming applies in their classrooms. But opinions are divided about how to approach it.
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Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
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Professor of Linguistics and English, Florida International University
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Professor of ESOL, University of South Wales
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Researcher in TESOL & Literacy, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
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Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Māori Language Revitalisation, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Language Education and Linguistics, University of Leeds
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Professor of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Westminster
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Professor of Sociolinguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of Cambridge