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Language is a complex structure. Here, Jeremy Dutcher performs during the Polaris Music Prize gala in Toronto on Sept. 17, 2018. Dutcher’s award-winning album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa is in the Wolastoqey language. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin

Ancestral languages are essential to Indigenous identities in Canada

Frank Deer, University of Manitoba

The presence of Indigenous peoples in conversations in Canada about the flourishing of Indigenous languages and critical Indigenous education is essential.
Learning in their mother tongue facilitates children’s ability to learn another language. Cecil Bo Dzwowa/Shutterstock/Editorial use only

Five ways indigenous languages can be championed for learners

H. Ekkehard Wolff, University of Leipzig

The International Year of Indigenous Languages serves as a good impetus to start implementing policies that prioritises Africa’s own languages.
Luiz Capitulino,11, and his mom Sheyla Do Vale of Brazil embrace after becoming official Canadians during a citizenship ceremony at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

It’s time to change the way we teach English

Angelica Galante, Concordia University

The language learning approach called “plurilingualism” empowers people to draw on many languages and cultural modes of communicating.

Related Topics

  1. African languages
  2. English language learning
  3. ESL
  4. Language learning
  5. Mohawk
  6. Multilingualism
  7. Plurilingualism
  8. Post-colonialism
  9. Truth and Reconciliation in Canada

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