Language Diversity Has Never Mattered More

A new study by the World Wildlife Fund suggests that when languages die, ecosystems do as well. Supporting linguistic diversity challenges the colonial imperialism of Western romance languages in the Americas, English chief among them. As co-editors of Research in the Teaching of English, Mary Juzwik and I have been thinking quite a bit about the ways in which we might pluralize access to the journal's English-only content.

With the tremendous efforts of assistant editor, Maria Novotny, and several translators, the editorial team is pleased to announce that volume year 49 marks the beginning of RTE publishing the abstracts of each article in Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish. Many thanks to the translators, without whom this would not be possible.

• Mandarin    Sonja Wang
• Spanish     Gerardo Aponte
• French    Kareanna Creps; Christine Donohue
• Arabic     Najwan Saada
• German    Wendy Wilson
• Hindi    Shreelina Ghosh
• Korean    Yun Choi; Jihea Kang
• Russian    Albina Khabibulina

And click on the image below to check out our latest issue featuring cosmopolitanism in language and literacy studies.