This blog was kindly authored by Fiona Devine (Manchester) and Jo Fox (Newcastle), on behalf of the N8 subgroup on Modern Languages. We are very familiar with the story that languages are in decline and share the well-founded concern about the emergence of regional cold spots across the country due to declining numbers of students […]

Treating English as neutral and universally accessible is holding institutions back. Yolanda Cerda and Bee Bond argue for a rethink of the way non-English languages are understood as a deficit

[Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series about a university department in Taiwan dedicated to Southeast Asian languages and regional studies, and the people behind it.]