Three years after a request made by the Commissioner of Official Languages, the Supreme Court is still refusing to translate its decisions handed down before 1970. Its reasons are not valid.
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New Zealand’s bilingual children often lose their mother tongue by the time they leave school. But there are fears that use of English-based decoding in structured literacy will hasten this decline.
Spanish signs are becoming more popular in the Italian Market in South Philadelphia, but decreasing along the Golden Block in North Philadelphia.
Wales has a rich musical heritage, and the next generation is ready to take centre stage.
If you’re lucky enough to be able to teach your child several languages, don’t hesitate!
The film ‘Past Lives’ provides meaningful insights on how immigrant youth grow into their cultural identity.
Machine translation can seem alarmingly good – but it’s still no substitute for human language knowledge.
Does being bilingual protect against Alzheimer’s? Can it help slow cognitive decline? There is clear evidence that it causes beneficial and long-lasting changes in the brain.
Young Latinos in the US often navigate a contradictory landscape: Their parents see them as not Latino enough, while teachers and peers view them as not American enough.
Bilinguals may struggle with hangman but they excel at remembering and categorising objects.
Sociolinguists suggest that within the next century, 90% of the world’s languages will disappear, due largely to colonial languages dominating economies, education and governance.
Amid all the stresses of lockdowns, our research found there was some good news: children had the chance to better develop their home language.
It came about through sustained contact with native Spanish speakers who directly translated phrases from Spanish into English, a form of linguistic borrowing called ‘calques.’
It depends on whether you are learning as a baby or not.
There are many benefits to being bilingual.
School is a key location for young people to learn and speak Welsh.
The way questions on language were posed call the results into question.
Language-learning research in the Netherlands has determined that using a foreign language rather than just memorizing its grammar can transform how students progress.
Speakers of minority languages (like Welsh) often insert words from a majority language (like English) while speaking.
The controversial reality show is only part of the picture when it comes to class and education in Indian marriage negotiations.
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Full Professor, Research Chair in Language Rights, Faculty of Law | Professeur titulaire, Chaire de recherche Droits et enjeux linguistiques, Faculté de droit, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics (Bilingualism), Bangor University
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Reader in Experimental Pragmatics, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Education, Harvard University
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