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Russia Bans Use of Foreign Words
Last month, Russia’s Duma (lower legislative assembly) adopted a bill that forbids the use of foreign words in Russian, unless there is no commonly used Russian equivalent.
Moscow is looking to protect the Russian language...
Early Childhood Programs Failing English Learners
A policy brief from the Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy finds that despite...
Creating Pathways for Lifelong Learners
In recent years, a number of states have promoted the creation of pathways to make it easier for...
Avant and Linguacious Donate Ukrainian Books to Refugee Children
Avant Assessment, the developer of online language proficiency tests in more than 40 languages, and Linguacious, an independent children’s book publisher based in Iowa whose books have been translated into over 20 languages, have...
UN Forum Focuses on Language Rights
Last month, on the first day of the 21st United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in New York, Indigenous people from every continent (excluding Antarctica) spoke on the importance of preserving and...
Belarus Restricts Lithuanian Education
According to Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus will no longer allow students in its two Lithuanian-language schools to study in their native language. Instead, they’ll study in either Belarusian or Russian, with Lithuanian...
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...
May 2022 Inside the Issue
Make the School Day Longer?
Stephen Krashen discusses if extra time in school help children make up for instruction lost because of the pandemic
The Science of the Bilingual Reading Brain
Alexandra Guilamo explores what science says...
I Am My Language
“I am my language. Until I can take pride in my language,...
Misclassification of Ukrainian Sparks Outcry
Despite years of coverage on the language conflict in Ukraine in Language Magazine and many other media outlets, and a heartfelt, poetic explanation of the subjugation of Ukrainian, there are still commentators who question the status of Ukrainian as...
