#LanguageEquity

@equalyzai.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

The path forward is clear:
Africa must not only consume AI. Africa must build it.

#EqualyzAI #AfricaAI #InclusiveTechnology #AIForAfrica #LanguageEquity #DigitalInclusion #AfricanInnovation

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EqualyzAI

@equalyzai.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

The Global South is not just a consumer of AI.
We are contributors. Builders. Shapers of what comes next.

#EqualyzAI #GlobalSouthAI #InclusiveAI #AIForAfrica #LanguageEquity #DigitalInclusion #AfricanInnovation

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Californians Together

@caltog.bsky.social

4 months ago

It’s the language of S.F.’s first Chinese immigrants. Can it survive another generation? As Mandarin becomes increasingly favored both in China and the Bay Area, Cantonese defenders are grappling with threats to the language.

Preserve the language, preserve the culture. The story of Cantonese in the Bay Area asks:

Can this heritage language survive the next generation?

“Cantonese is not only a language, but also a history… If Cantonese is lost, the culture is lost.”
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/c...
#LanguageEquity

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The Teacher Think-Aloud Podcast

@thinkaloudpod.bsky.social

6 months ago

US Department of Education Rescinds Guidance on English Learners’ Rights and Learning Standards The recent news from the U.S. Department of Education has sent a ripple of concern through the English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching community. Here are several avenues through which we can adv...

The removal of federal guidelines for teaching #EnglishLearners suggests a lack of federal enforcement and further challenges down the road. So what can teachers do? Read our blog post for ideas.
www.teacherthinkaloud.com/post/us-gove...
#ESL #LanguageEquity #EnglishLanguageTeaching #EduSky #ELsky

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Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

@ppssf.bsky.social

7 months ago

Language access should be for all SFUSD students, Pre-K to 12—Mandarin, African, all languages. Concerned Dragon Gate won't be truly diverse but will use public space. Public schools must serve everyone. #SFUSD #LanguageEquity #NoToExclusiveCharters

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Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

@ppssf.bsky.social

7 months ago

Language immersion is vital—but charter schools aren't the solution. Over 50% of closed charters cite low enrollment. SFUSD should expand its own programs citywide, not outsource them.#InvestInPublicSchools #LanguageEquity #NoToNewCharters

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Serhii Nazarovets

@serhiinazarovets.bsky.social

10 months ago

Carolina Pradier, Lucía Céspedes, Vincent Larivière A smack of all neighbouring languages: How multilingual is scholarly communication? Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific contexts; few, however, have provided a global analysis of multilingualism in science. Using two major bibliometric databases (OpenAlex and Dimensions), we provide a large-scale analysis of linguistic diversity in science, considering both the language of publications (N=87,577,942) and of cited references (N=1,480,570,087). For the 1990-2023 period, we find that only Indonesian, Portuguese and Spanish have expanded at a faster pace than English. Country-level analyses show that this trend is due to the growing strength of the Latin American and Indonesian academic circuits. Our results also confirm the own-language preference phenomenon (particularly for languages other than English), the strong connection between multilingualism and bibliodiversity, and that social sciences and humanities are the least English-dominated fields. Our findings suggest that policies recognizing the value of both national-language and English-language publications have had a concrete impact on the distribution of languages in the global field of scholarly communication. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.21100

A new preprint examines 87M publications and 1.5B citations (1990–2023) via #OpenAlex & #Dimensions. While English still dominates (>85% in 2023), publication shares in Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish are growing 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2504.21100 #bibliometrics #multilingualism #languageequity

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Universiti Brunei Darussalam

@ubdbuzz.bsky.social

10 months ago

UBD marks a milestone with Professor Dr Noor Azam’s professorial lecture on Brunei’s multilingual landscape.
His work champions language equity and continues to shape national discourse.

#UBD #FASS #LanguageEquity #Brunei #ProfessorialLecture #FuturingTogether

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21st Century Learning

@21cl.bsky.social

1 year ago

We’re excited to have Jaya Hiranandani @mshiranandani & Kate Burden at #21CLHK25! Learn more on "Linguistically Responsive Learning Environments" zurl.co/lgZCJ
🗓️ Main Conference | 14-15 Feb 2025
📍@HKCEC
#Literacy #ESL #21stCenturyLearning #LanguageEquity #Translanguaging