"From mother-tongue to many tongues" is the title of my article in the current issue of the magazine Teacher Plus. The essay argues that a mother-tongue based multilingual education is both necessary and do-able.
The editors gave me a thousand-word limit. Listing all the references would have eaten up a large part of that word limit. So, I've re-published the article (with minor changes, and all the references) on my website. Do read "From mother-tongue to many tongues".
Comments, as always, welcome!
Fighting Over Romansh.
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Simon Akam in the New Yorker has one of the best essays I’ve read
(archived) about the struggle to standardize a language. Here’s the start:
Ask him how it...
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