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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nobody knows how many languages Americans speak. The most exhaustive tally by the Census Bureau a decade ago found more than 350, but the actual number is likely to be several times that. A recent ...

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 ...

Last year at a celebration of International Mother Language Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, thousands attend a monument commemorating those killed during the Language Movement demonstrations of 1952. Mehedi ...

Language diversity has played a key role in shaping the history of our species, yet we know surprisingly little about the factors shaping this diversity The following essay is reprinted with ...

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 ...