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Language learning

Warning: Global English may harm your mental health

About ten years ago an overseas student from South Korea who was about to fail a unit I was teaching left a suicide note under my office door. She described…
Language learning

Learning a language the easy way

The Omidvar brothers on the road: amazing feats of discovery and language learning? In his most recent round of interviews with the magazine Særzæmin-e Mæn (“My Country”), Issa Omidvar, one…
Language costs
Language at work

Language costs

USD 254,000: that is the cost of raising two children bilingually in English and German in Denver, Colorado. That’s a lot of money, and inspired me to do some number-crunching…
English as a global language
Language consumption and mobility
Language in education
Plurilingual pre-service teachers
Language and social justice
Migrant women’s empowerment in the city
Language in education
Building bridges through multilingual schooling: a mother-tongue pilot in East Timor is showing the way
Language and globalization
Does internationalization change research content?
Language and social justice
Intercultural communication over coffee