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Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis that’s pitted its English speaking citizens against the central government could result in the country being denied preferential trade agreements with the US.
Is British English being swallowed up by American English – or are both versions simply following the same path to a more informal language?
To understand the full scale of the world’s linguistic diversity, we should be thinking about languages and how speakers relate to them.
Whether it’s due to native language loss or unsupported high school curricula, the lack of bilingualism in the US is notable. Why can’t more Americans speak another language? How should that change?
Ethical engagement in multilingual communication is about mutual respect. More importantly, it’s about shaping a shared future through face-to-face communication.
The founder of the West Virginia Dialect Project hopes to debunk some of the myths about the way Appalachian people speak and instill pride in a rich, oft-maligned culture.
Textbooks in sufficient quantities are effective in improving the quality of education but in Africa language poses a problem to how pupils interact with the material they are taught.
Students from South Africa’s public school system battle to cope with the rigorous demands of any university degree without genuine, committed support.
For the first time since 1911, students in NSW can now complete Year 12 without having read a novel or poetry.
Schools and universities in post-colonial contexts still operate within the logic of coloniality. This is starkly illustrated by their language policies.
In Africa, standard English dominates in formal institutions. But in everyday usage it is supplanted by the continent’s abundance of languages – and the varieties of English these gave rise to.
In South Africa there’s a value judgment attached to students who take part in universities’ English for Academic Purposes programmes. This shouldn’t be the case.
The lessons Paulo Freire learnt nearly 90 years ago and the theories he developed from painful personal experience still resonate across Africa’s schooling systems today.
We should be well jel of geezers who speak slang, says a language expert
With English dominating university life around the world, what are we losing?
The extraordinary words that capture the colourful diversity of the English language.
Resented, mistrusted and misunderstood – do native English speakers risk being marginalised in international business?
Irregular verbs, crazy spelling and the difficulty of being polite. English is tough.
The future is one of multiple Englishes.
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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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Research assistant, University of Oxford
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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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Senior Lecturer, Applied Language and Literacy Studies, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Sociolinguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of Cambridge