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Multilingual families

English dominates at German camp in USA

Eierlaufen (egg-and-spoon race) at German Camp, USA My two daughters – whom my wife and I are raising as English-German bilinguals in the USA – have been going to German…
Multilingual families

Whose job is it to raise the kids (bilingually)?

Image credit: Alexander Dummer via Unsplash In the current crisis, when schools and childcare centres may be closed for long periods, many families have to make choices about work and…
Language and globalization

Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?

Wei Duan introduces herself to a group of Bangladeshi students at Yunnan University As a postgraduate student at Yunnan University in Southwest China, I have been conducting a longitudinal ethnography…
Language politics
Languages of the heart
English belongs to everyone
English as a global language
English belongs to everyone?
"Speak English or Die!" Vilification on a Melbourne bus caught on camera
Language and social justice
“Speak English or Die!”
Intercultural communication
More than meets the eye
Intercultural communication
One Orientalism or many Orientalisms?
English as a global language
Barbarous multilingual devil worshippers