Munir Hachemi’s playful, hedonistic novel on descendants of colonisers from Earth offers a daring exercise in translation ...

Language and social identity have been making headlines recently. Last month, Air Canada's CEO Michael Rousseau faced scrutiny over not knowing French—his language deficit is helping support Bill 96 ...

A young Latina mother I was interviewing once laughed uncomfortably as she described her sons' embarrassment when put on the spot by older Latinos. They would speak to her sons in Spanish, before ...

A new study suggests that the language a bilingual person speaks can affect their physical sensations, depending on the cultural association tied to each vernacular. We take for granted the fact that ...

In an article for Encyclopaedia Britannica, Carlos D. Morrison defines code-switching as the “process of shifting from one linguistic code (a language or dialect) to another, depending on the social ...

Heritage language maintenance encompasses the processes by which individuals and communities sustain their ancestral tongues in the face of dominant‐language pressures. Research in this field explores ...

Today’s post is the final one in a series where educators share potential challenges that might exist in teaching English Learners, and how to respond to them. Michelle Benegas, Ph.D., is an associate ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse. In Kazakhstan, talk about switching from the ...