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Improving the census question on ‘language’ could help repair community relations and Britain’s international image post-Brexit

Yaron Matras By Filed Under: Growth and Inclusion Posted:

Yaron Matras, Professor of Linguistics, discusses the importance of changing the census question “What is your main language?” and the impact this change could have. The census question on language lacks a clear definition of what it means by ‘main language’ and forces multilingual households to select just one language. The Brexit debate includes conversations […]

Why embracing language diversity is a key to community cohesion

Yaron Matras By Filed Under: All posts, Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, OnCohesion Posted:

As part of our new publication ‘OnCohesion’ read Professor Yaron Matras’ blog which focuses on language diversity and why he believes it is key to social cohesion Language is an emblem of who we are. It is the carrier of our heritage and one of the ways of identifying what we mean by ‘communities’. Community […]

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Why language statistics might be misleading

Yaron Matras By Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Growth and Inclusion Posted:

This month’s issue of The Economist included an article entitled ‘Why central and eastern European children lag behind in British schools’. Here, Professor Yaron Matras responds to the article and discusses the difficulties of using official statistic to record languages. The article looks mainly to languages as being a factor in differential educational achievement, but […]

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