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Language in education

Refugee children left behind as eagle lands on the moon

Yesterday, the New York Times carried a heart-breaking story about an exceptional school principal forced from her position under No-Child-Left-Behind legislation in order for the school district to obtain federal…
Language and law

Intercultural communication in migration law practice

(Image credit: Eurekastreet) Editor's note: This article is based on a presentation delivered as part of a plenary panel, ‘Transdisciplinary Approach to Forensic Linguistics’, at the 16th Biennial Conference of the…
Language politics

How to Study Language and Social Relations in Times of Global Mobility

The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin Imagine you want to study language diversity as a phenomenon of contemporary society. Where do you start? You can, for example, ask teachers to count…
Intercultural communication
Eating, othering and bonding
Chats in Linguistic Diversity
Linguistic diversity as a bureaucratic challenge
English at the Olympics
Intercultural communication
English at the Olympics
Australia’s Asia Literacy Debate
Language in Australia
Australia’s Asia Literacy Debate
Language and migration
Refugees in the media: Villains and victims
Language and globalization
Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?