A restaurant sign featuring both Tibetan and Chinese, in a village where the Tibetan residents speak Ngandehua, one of Tibet’s minority languages (Image: Gerald Roche)
As elsewhere in...
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Are debates over linguistic rights erasing diversity?
Publicado en Language on the Move el 18/11/2018
Creating a multilingual library
Publicado en Language on the Move el 06/11/2018
In my work with multilingual families, reading in the home language raises its head on so many levels. It is viewed as a shared family activity in a way that playing games, apps, or watching television are not. For example, parents look forward to...
Can English skills help end migrant exploitation?
Publicado en Language on the Move el 14/10/2018
Leer másIn Bahrain, I was beaten. For example, they asked for tea. I gave tea leaves. I did not make the tea. She put her hand on my neck and moved me to tell, ‘Boil the tea leaves. Make tea’. They told me things in Arabic, I did not know Arabic. There was no other Bangladeshi to help me out. That’s how I worked. Sometimes, the children said me something, but I didn’t understand. Then the children knocked me. But you can never have a gloomy face. (Afia, pseudonym, a Bangladeshi migrant domestic worker)
Are bilinguals better language learners?
Publicado en Language on the Move el 04/10/2018
Professor Peter Siemund, Hamburg University, during his guest lecture at Macquarie University
It is easy to assume that bilinguals are better at adding another language to their repertoire. But...
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