Born and raised in Vietnam, I learned and later taught English as a foreign language. My monolingual background significantly shaped my...

Indonesia has more than 700 languages, with Bahasa Indonesia (or simply Bahasa) being the official one. From the westernmost Sabang in...

Bilingualism is difficult to define. We often go with a feeling more than anything. That person is bilingual. I’d like to be bilingual,...

I was born and raised during a golden era of English language education in China. By the time I was in the third grade, English had...

Have you ever secretly thought that people invent a term so it sounds like something new and exciting, but it’s actually no different to...

Navigating language use in the classroom can be challenging.

In this entry, I’m going to talk about the differences between translation and translanguaging and whether or not these two notions can...

When I was young, Japanese happened to me at school. It was external to me, geographically distant. I was here and Japanese was there. I...