Tag: language
French Tests May Be Required for Migrants
Lawmakers are increasing efforts to make it harder to stay in France long term if you don’t speak French. A new immigration bill presented on February 1 outlines measures to introduce a compulsory language...
Listen before Repeating
When someone hears a concept or a person’s name for the first time, the most common way of learning this new word is to repeat it out loud. However, previous studies have found contradictory...
Cardona Sets Goal of Multilingualism for All Students
At last month’s National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) annual conference in Portland, Oregon, US secretary for education...
Navajo University Offers First PhD in Diné
A tribal university on the largest Native American reservation in the US has become the first of more than 30 accredited tribal colleges across the country, to launch its doctoral program.
The newly announced program...
Moldovan Parliament rules Romanian as national language
The parliament of Moldova has approved a law on referring to the country’s national language as Romanian rather than Moldovan in the constitution and all legislative texts.
This move comes despite strong opposition from a...
A.I. ‘Stars’ at Cádiz Congress of Spanish Language
Last month, the 9th International Congress of the Spanish Language was held in Cádiz, Spain.
This year’s theme focused around language, multiculturalism and interculturality, running from March 27-30 and was declared a “success” by its...
France: Language defenders take legal action over ‘Franglais’
Language defense groups in France are taking legal action over a so-called “excessive” use of English and mixed English and French terms, by public institutions and businesses.
The newest cases considered breaches of the law...
Designing Learning Ecologies
How did you spend much of 2020? Hours online? And then came 2021, being both easier and more...
Italian Watchdog Rejects Gender-Neutral Symbols
The institutional language "guardian" of Italy has decided that the country’s court system should continue to use traditional...
Activists warn Russian languages are disappearing faster than data suggests
Activists in Russia have warned that hundreds of rare languages spoken by Russia’s ethnic and indigenous minorities are disappearing at an alarming rate.
It is thought by linguistic experts that these languages are becoming obsolete...