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...migration demographics: The 2011 Census also showed that about a third of the foreign-born population identified as Asian/Asian British (33%, 2.4 million). Until now, however, this linguistic and demographic change has not been significantly reflected in national language teaching. Furthermore, Asian languages figure prominently among the most important languages for the...

...migrated to Europe and that still preserve their heritage languages (such as Chinese, Bengali or Urdu). The European Day of Languages has been held on 26th September annually since 2001. Many schools, cultural institutes, and universities - including the Open University - take part in a celebration of the linguistic diversity of Europe. We can rejoice in the fact that...

...migrated from Twitter to spoken language, where it’s used as a means of retrospectively framing the meaning of an utterance. And beyond punctuation there are examples such as the facepalm gesture, indicating frustrated or exasperated disbelief, which has become so ubiquitous that ‘facepalm’ itself is starting to be used as a form of reflexive interjection in...