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Getting creative in the languages classroom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The following principles are central to the work of ‘Linguistic Creativity in Language Learning’, a research strand of Creative Multilingualism: We create language every day. Language diversity facilitates creative diversity.
Fisher, Linda   +3 more
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Cultural diversity, economic development and societal instability. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2007
BACKGROUND: Social scientists have suggested that cultural diversity in a nation leads to societal instability. However, societal instability may be affected not only by within-nation or alpha diversity, but also diversity between a nation and its ...
Daniel Nettle   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

About the blessing of linguistic diversity in the field of education (and beyond)

open access: yesSCENARIO: Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 2023
In this article performative teaching practice becomes a departure point for reflections on linguistic diversity in the field of education. Reference is made to personal experiences with linguistic (in)sensitivity in intercultural encounters, and ...
Manfred Schewe
doaj   +1 more source

Complementary and conflicting discourses of linguistic diversity: implications for language planning

open access: yesPer Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2011
Although the promotion of linguistic diversity is one of the main goals of language policy and planning in Africa, few attempts have been made to analyse how linguistic diversity has been construed in Africa within the different types of language ...
Barbara Trudell, Sinfree Makoni
doaj   +1 more source

Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species. A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior.
Nicolas Antunes   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multilingualism language policy in the EU today: A paradigm shift in language education [PDF]

open access: yesTraining, Language and Culture, 2018
The official rhetoric of the European Union (EU) describes the linguistic diversity by which it is characterised as ‘an asset for Europe and a shared commitment’, while it also represents languages as commodities for employability, mobility and economic ...
Bessie Dendrinos
doaj   +1 more source

Six mois sur Duolingo pour apprendre le français, le chinois, et d’autres langues : An Experiential Diary Account of Linguistic Diversity

open access: yesStudies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2023
This essay is a diary account of learning French, as well as exploring eight other languages in six-months through the app, Duolingo, and how exposure to this diversity of languages has enriched my possession of cultural capital.
Rob Werner
doaj   +1 more source

Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Pupavac examines the rise of linguistic human rights advocacy and its approach in a case study of language politics in the post-Yugolav states. A core concern of contemporary linguistic rights advocacy has been to tackle ethnically based discrimination ...
Pupavac, Vanessa
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LANGUAGE PROGNOSIS AND LANGUAGE DIVERSITY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: SOCIOLINGUISTIC ASPECT

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2019
The article considers the methodological basis of sociolinguistic research into language perspectives with a focus on linguistic diversity in the Russian Federation, the study of which is closely connected with such sociolinguistic concepts as language
Aysa N. Bitkeeva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Polityka językowa w państwach Unii Europejskiej [PDF]

open access: yesPrzegląd Geopolityczny, 2022
The presence of multiple languages spoken within the territory of the European Union member states implies the necessity for the EU institutions to adopt a specific language policy.
Zuzanna Wilczyńska
doaj  

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