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The Gender Gap Tracker uses computational linguistics techniques to analyze how women are mentioned and quoted in Canadian media.
The language learning approach called “plurilingualism” empowers people to draw on many languages and cultural modes of communicating.
New Brunswick’s language politics have vaulted ahead of its teetering economic crisis to potentially become the central political issue in 2019.
Ontario’s premier is drawing faulty parallels between Franco-Ontarians and Anglo-Quebecers when it comes to the services available to them in each province.
Ordinary people are being deeply affected by the continued violence tearing apart Cameroon.
A unique model of journalism based on academic research and fact-based analysis is now being published in both of Canada’s official languages
To read English-Canadian media, you would think that Québec’s anglophones are under greater threat than the rest of the country’s minority language communities. Why the selective outrage?
In a recent Twitter post, French president Macron reminded the world that the word “entrepreneur” is in fact French.
Frantz Fanon recognised mental illness as a real experience and offered an understanding of it being influenced by society and culture.
After the 1994 genocide, Rwanda pivoted towards the Anglophone world. But not entirely.
Female teachers can act as role models who enhance girls’ motivation and learning outcomes.
First and second-generation immigrants perform well in many Canadian provinces that take an “accommodation” approach.
Why is a memorial to 29 Francophone men who were executed by the British government as well as to 58 men who were exiled to Australia in 1838 hidden away in a Montreal cemetery?
Back in the Middle Ages, as well as speaking English and Latin, many people living in Britain also spoke French.
But the British soon got the hang of profanity.
Anglophones have long complained that their language and culture are marginalised. They say if this doesn’t change, they must be granted independence.
French is no longer taught as a European language representative of “French” culture in South Africa. New modes of teaching, learning and research speak to an inclusive Africanist agenda.
West African leaders have nursed the idea of a common currency for the sub-region since the turn of the century. But conditions for member countries to make this happen appear unattainable.
Canadian celebrations are often controversial, but challenges to Canada 150 may actually indicate our desire to perfect and improve this country.
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Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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