Language attitudes are the beliefs, values and expectations that individuals or communities hold towards particular languages or language varieties. These attitudes shape identity, social ...

Teenagers in Wales believe it is important that Welsh remains a living language, but fewer than half believe they will go on to speak it as adults. This is what we found when we surveyed over 800 ...

Researchers share evidence that people's attitudes are deeply woven into language and culture across the globe and centuries. In a new study, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, ...

deaf with a lowercase d describes the audiological condition of hearing impairment. Deaf with a capital D refers to those individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing who “view themselves as a unique ...

The concept of assimilation has been debated extensively in the social science of migration since the early 20th Century, but it is now broadly accepted as a way to describe the ways that immigrants ...

THE Philippines, being a multilingual and multicultural nation, needed to have language-in-education policies that could appropriately and adequately serve the linguistic profile of its citizens. For ...

Children benefit enormously from being taught in their own languages. JLWarehouse/Shutterstock/Editorial use only If you step into a classroom in South Africa’s ...