One in 10 public school students in the United States is classified as an English learner. Yet, many educators report feeling underprepared to support language-diverse classrooms effectively. Teaching ...

Peter Hauser has spent the past two decades studying how deaf people develop, learn, grow, and live. Today, he is at the helm of a new project—a research-based incubator—where junior faculty at RIT’s ...

Explore the significance of linguistic diversity in preserving identity and memory amidst the extinction of rare languages. Note: My confidence in the hypothesis that there are negative returns at ...

W hen Ashley Lawson first came to North Carolina State University, she was careful not to say “bowl” for “boil” or “holler” for, “you know, a dip in the ground.” In 2014, the freshman from ...

Union minister Jitendra Singh emphasized the adoption of Hindi across government establishments, noting its practicality in ...

In an earlier essay, I argued for the need for greater linguistic diversity in the university. In this second piece, I offer some methods for fostering that diversity -- methods that developed from my ...

There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years. A study ...

Is it true that many languages in the world use words similar to “mama” and “papa” for “mother” and “father”? If a language uses only one word for both “arm” and “hand”, does it also use only one word ...

Much has been made, in the last 10 years, of the cultural and social adherence to the idea of diversity. The idea of diversity has been one promulgated throughout our education system — secondary and ...

Nearly 40% of California’s students are multilingual learners, yet the state’s teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly monolingual.” ...

In this course we approach linguistic diversity and multilingualism not only from a theoretical point of view, but also from a perspective oriented to help understand and manage various contexts that ...

Peter Hauser has spent the past two decades studying how deaf people develop, learn, grow, and live. Today, he is at the helm of a new project—a research-based incubator—where junior faculty at RIT’s ...