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 ...

Vice President C P Radhakrishnan stated that India's linguistic diversity strengthens its national unity. He emphasized the ...

Lacerenza, Christina N.; Johnson, Stefanie K.; Schwatka, Natalie V.; Beldon, Marissa A.; Dennerlein, Jack T. Human Resource Management. Jan2025, p1. Team Diversity as ...

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of human life, including language use and interaction dynamics in vulnerable minority communities. Yet little ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ph.D. Student in Ecology, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) People across the world describe their thoughts and emotions, share experiences and spread ideas through the use of thousands of distinct ...

Scholars have created a new global repository of linguistic data. The project is designed to facilitate new insights into the evolution of words and sounds of the languages spoken across the world ...