Adults aren’t the only language teachers: six-year-olds still produce sounds differently than adults, but toddlers are extremely good at understanding the speech of children six years and older.
In English and science alike, every student and teacher brings his or her own language patterns to class. But how can educators make sure that language bias doesn’t harm student achievement?
Cult TV show Gogglebox is more than light entertainment: it shows the diverse reality of Australian English, going beyond stereotypes about what Australians sound like.
New research has found that Neil Armstrong’s strong midwestern accent is making it impossible for us to work out what he actually said when he first set foot on the moon.
Shakespeare’s use of dialect is a key argument used by those who stand by the traditional author. But these so-called “Warwickshire dialect” words are nothing of the sort.
Coordinateur de l'Observatoire pour l'Afrique centrale et australe de l'Institut Français des Relations Internationales, membre du Groupe de Recherche sur l'Eugénisme et le Racisme, Université Paris Cité