February 2020

Language learning after home language in early childhood is often referred to as second language learning (despite the fact that people may actually learn their third or fourth language). In Canada, an officially bilingual country,…

Learning a language after the mother tongue in infancy is often referred to as learning a second language (despite the fact that people can actually learn their third or fourth language). In Canada, an officially bilingual country,…

After students at a California high school were recently asked to 'translate' Black English sentences into Standard English, a community member at a school board hearing said: 'The last thing they need - our children - is to be forced…

Shana Poplack, Emeritus University Professor | Canada Research Chair in Linguistics | Founding Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory, University of Ottawa/L'Université d'Ottawa African-American vernacular English is an…