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What really happens when a language dies: Sophia Smith Galer's new book “How to Kill a Language” explores what is really lost when languages go extinct and ...
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What really happens when a language dies
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Mother Language Day: English-only policy threatens indigenous languages, groups warn
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Mother-tongue education is failing: The numbers tell a politically uncomfortable truth. A survey of all Grade 4 children in Makhanda’s no-fee public schools this ...
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Can AI save Turkey’s endangered Laz language?: With few young speakers and little official support, activists are turning to artificial intelligence to help ...
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‘Welcome step, practical implementation difficult’: Pune school principals on CBSE’s teaching in mother tongue move
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SA children say they really like to read, despite dismal reading test results: A deep dive into the data behind the poor scores of South Africa’s primary school ...
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Europe’s language revolution, now more visible than ever: How successful are European countries at unifying their populations linguistically? Europe’s rapid ...
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'Phasing out' English medium schools in one Welsh county divides readers: Cyngor Gwynedd wants to make Welsh the principal language of education in every school ...
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Puerto Ricans worry about new Trump order designating English as official language
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For Indigenous Families in Russia, Keeping Language Alive Is an Impossible Task: Friday marks the 25th annual International Mother Language Day ...
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Bill ceasing mother tongue as medium of instruction in K-3 lapses into law: Republic Act No. 12027 reverts the medium of instruction to Filipino and ...
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Bill ceasing mother tongue as medium of instruction in K-3 lapses into law
Leila Aboulela: the struggle to pass Arabic on to my children: My generation was able to carry two languages, both strong and well developed ...
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Leila Aboulela: the struggle to pass Arabic on to my children
Some love the new education law, some hate it — expert explains why: Education professor Wayne Hugo answers questions about the Basic Education Laws Amendment ...
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Only multilingual education can keep English’s global dominance in check: That the world ought to be multilingual instead of being at peace with the global ...
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The Big Read: Is Singapore becoming a monolingual nation and is that a boon or bane for national identity?
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