When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of ...

Language and social identity have been making headlines recently. Last month, Air Canada's CEO Michael Rousseau faced scrutiny over not knowing French—his language deficit is helping support Bill 96 ...

As communities continue looking for meaningful ways to preserve language, history, and identity for younger generations, ...

A young Latina mother I was interviewing once laughed uncomfortably as she described her sons' embarrassment when put on the spot by older Latinos. They would speak to her sons in Spanish, before ...

In an article for Encyclopaedia Britannica, Carlos D. Morrison defines code-switching as the “process of shifting from one linguistic code (a language or dialect) to another, depending on the social ...

A new study suggests that the language a bilingual person speaks can affect their physical sensations, depending on the cultural association tied to each vernacular. We take for granted the fact that ...

Today’s post is the final one in a series where educators share potential challenges that might exist in teaching English Learners, and how to respond to them. Michelle Benegas, Ph.D., is an associate ...

Imagine driving through California’s sunlit streets, approaching a crosswalk that tells you to “SLOW.” But something’s off — it’s misspelled: “SOLW.” The word echoes in your mind as soul. “That moment ...

Despite extensive psycholinguistic research on gendered language, investigations of how psychological gender identity shapes linguistic behavior in clinical populations remain scarce. Drawing on ...