Studies of African multilingual contexts are almost non-existent in high-impact scientific journals.
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Better job prospects and richer lives are among the many reasons to learn a foreign language, an expert on foreign language instruction writes.
Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn’t look for one worldwide explanation.
English will remain an official EU language – even after Brexit – and this will impact the way it evolves.
Britons are notoriously bad at learning other languages. Here are some of the things that they find difficult.
This explains why some aspects of English can be hard to learn for speakers of other languages.
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Reader in Linguistics, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
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Adjunct Faculty, Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Glasgow
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Postdoctoral research associate, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
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Professor of Linguistics, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
