My empirical research on linguistic practice in India has been foundational to a series of articles coauthored with Mary Bucholtz that interrogate the relationship between language and identity. Our ...

AGENCY VILLAGE, S.D. (KELO) – November is Native American Heritage Month, but schools and organizations on reservations across KELOLAND celebrate Native American heritage all year long. One way they ...

Learning a language can be like embarking to a new world with much to discover. History, culture, expression, music and more can be delved into, dissected, and consumed once the pupil becomes an adept ...

Amelia Tseng does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 33, No. 2, Language, Identity, and Educational Policies / Langue, identité, et politiques éducatives (2010), pp. 407-431 (25 pages ...

English Prof. Chris Abani, director of NU’s Program of African Studies, discussed his memoir “The Face: Cartography of the Void” on Friday as part of the Global Lunchbox speaker series. A ...

My parents met at my grandmother’s house in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Shortly after, they got married and started a family in America. Naturally, being a child of immigrants, I grew up speaking ...

Have you ever wondered whether the language you speak influences the way you see the world? Well, according to a number of studies in psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology and linguistic ...

Every Thursday, I give God. I agonized over writing that sentence, the first in the college essay about studying Irish that I was convinced would determine my future. I was applying early decision to ...

Kano Assembly passes bill enforcing Hausa as main language in schools to boost learning, reduce dropouts, and preserve cultural identity across the state.

“This is not how people talk. They talk about things with meaning.” So says a character early in “English,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sanaz Toossi currently receiving its Twin Cities premiere ...