{"id":16730,"date":"2024-02-16T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/?p=16730"},"modified":"2024-02-15T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:10:12","slug":"international-mother-language-day-protecting-cultural-heritage-through-multilingual-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/2024\/02\/16\/international-mother-language-day-protecting-cultural-heritage-through-multilingual-education\/","title":{"rendered":"International Mother Language Day: Protecting cultural heritage through multilingual education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Each of the 7,000 languages currently spoken across the globe is a unique, invaluable mode of cultural, spiritual and intellectual expression. When one of these languages is lost, a vast well of accumulated knowledge and an integral part of a culture\u2019s identity is lost with it \u2013 and this is occurring at an unprecedented rate. Without intervention, it is predicted that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/we-are-on-the-brink-of-losing-indigenous-languages-in-australia-could-schools-save-them-184736\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">50% to 90%<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of all languages will become extinct within the next 100 years.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/days\/mother-language\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">UNESCO\u2019s International Mother Language Day<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, observed on 21 February each year, highlights languages as \u2018the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage\u2019 and promotes linguistic diversity, multilingualism and language protection.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The theme of this year\u2019s International Mother Language Day is &#8216;multilingual education is a pillar of intergenerational learning&#8217;. Multilingual education policy and practice has a critical role in improving learning outcomes and helping to preserve languages and the intergenerational knowledge and heritage they carry with them.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Griffith Research Online (GRO) provides open access to an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/research-repository.griffith.edu.au\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">array of research<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to guide multilingual education policy and practice, a snapshot of which is below:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10072\/423761\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Blurring English language binaries: a decolonial analysis of multilingualism with(in) EcAL\/D education<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10072\/154667\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Multilingualism and assimilationism in Australia&#8217;s literacy-related educational policies<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10072\/415091\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">EAP learners as discourse analysts: Empowering emergent multilingual students<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10072\/406645\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The drivers of home language maintenance and development in indigenous communities<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For more research on multilingual education and linguistic diversity, visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/research-repository.griffith.edu.au\/discover?scope=%2F&amp;query=multilingual+education&amp;submit=\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Griffith Research Online<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Griffith is proud to produce world-class research contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals\u202f<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16731 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/02\/E_WEB_04-300x300.png\" alt=\"Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education \" width=\"154\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/02\/E_WEB_04-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/02\/E_WEB_04-1024x1024.png 1024w, 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When one of these languages is lost, a vast well of accumulated knowledge and an integral part of a culture\u2019s identity is lost with it \u2013 and this is occurring at an unprecedented rate.<a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/2024\/02\/16\/international-mother-language-day-protecting-cultural-heritage-through-multilingual-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;International Mother Language Day: Protecting cultural heritage through multilingual education&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":16732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-16730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-researchers","category-students","tag-researcher-news"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Scott Cowie","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-13-115756.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}