Female film directors are gaining increasing recognition for films that showcase Spain’s rich linguistic diversity
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The proposed English Language Bill assumes a problem. In reality, English dominates public life while many heritage languages struggle to survive.
The recently introduced English Language Bill will change little, but highlights a deeper
issue. NZ still lacks a coherent framework for language policy.
There are thousands of languages and dialects spoken in India, but most children learn three: the local tongue, Hindi and English.
Can you guess which languages score the highest for terms relating to ‘love’, ‘death’, ‘canoe’ or ‘sheep’? We made a tool to help you explore our extensive dataset.
Trump’s campaign produced campaign materials in Spanish to reach more voters. Now that he’s president, his White House is going English-only.
Studies of African multilingual contexts are almost non-existent in high-impact scientific journals.
Following the Sept. 20 federal election, an important question must be asked: How is the Canadian electoral process accommodating the country’s increasing linguistic diversity?
Bothered by ‘expresso’? An expert on speech and language explains why you shouldn’t correct mispronunciations.
Concerns about non-English-speaking migrant populations leading to “parallel communities” are not well founded. Third-generation migrants are typically monolingual in English.
Viewers are taking to Twitter to display their prejudice about Islanders’ accents.
Difficulty with English language can mask other difficulties culturally and linguistically diverse students may have, such as Austism or dyslexia.
To understand the full scale of the world’s linguistic diversity, we should be thinking about languages and how speakers relate to them.
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Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The Open University
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Associate Professor, Migration and Education, Australian National University
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Lecturer in General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Linguistics and Spanish, Purdue University
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Senior Lecturer, Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Research Fellow (Linguistics), Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University