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The necessity of teaching online during the COVID-19 pandemic could result in better Japanese language teaching

  • Dr Yasuhisa Watanabe,

The online environment can’t replicate all aspects of classroom language instruction, but online education does have benefits.

Learning how to say ‘you’ in Indonesian: why it’s time to embrace its complexity

  • Associate Professor Dwi Noverini Djenar,

There is a seemingly simple aspect of Indonesian that eludes learners: how to say ‘you’ to an addressee.

Language education policy in Nepal and the denial of the right to speak in Indigenous languages

  • Prem Phyak,

English as a medium of instruction in Nepal is violating students’ ‘right to speak’ in their home languages.

‘Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia’ by Subhan Zein

  • Dr Howard Manns,

Few have investigated the underpinnings of Indonesia’s language policy as thoroughly as Zein.

English language education in China is being challenged as against Chinese culture

  • Associate Professor Delia Lin,

English language education is getting increasingly political within China as US–China rivalry intensifies.

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