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Iranians Protest Mother Tongue Marginalization
In advance of Mother Language Day, about a thousand Iranians who grew up speaking a minority language took to Twitter to express their sense of loss and frustration at the marginalization of their mother...
Iran Reduces Kurdish Teacher’s Sentence
Zara Mohammadi, a Kurdish language teacher and linguistic advocate in Iran who was sentenced to ten years in prison for her work, has recently had her sentence reduced to five years. According to Rudaw,...
Iran Bans English From Primary Schools, Citing “Cultural Invasion”
Iran has announced that English would no longer be taught in primary schools after Islamic leaders warned that early exposure to English would help facilitate a “cultural invasion.” Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,...
Iran and the U.S. Look Forward to Academic Exchange
While the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 countries (China, France, Russia, U.K., U.S. and Germany) dominated the news cycle in July, other important diplomatic developments are occurring between Iran and the U.S....
Iran Launches Spanish-Language Channel
HispanTV, a Spanish-language television channel, went on the air on December 21st. The channel offers news, entertainment and educational programming to Spanish-speaking America, Spain and Spanish-speakers all over the world.
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World Readiness for a World in Conflict
Not long ago, my husband and I were in our kitchen discussing the news of escalating conflict in Gaza when he asked an unexpectedly complicated question: “What happens to language learning when there is...
Immigration: Bringing Backgrounds to the Foreground
Immigration is one of the most complex phenomena of our current century. There are many reasons why people,...
Bringing Backgrounds to the Foreground
Immigration is one of the most complex phenomena of our current century. There are many reasons why people, either voluntarily or involuntarily, leave their homelands for the purpose of residing in a foreign land....
Creating Community through Multinationalism
Although Maryam Ghatee does not speak French and has no connection to French culture, she has sent her third-grade daughter, Mona, to a local French immersion school—the French American School of Rhode Island (FASRI)—since...
Parker References Nov 2021
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