Dr Bak will discuss how their “Healthy Linguistic Diet” (HLD) framework, emphasising positive effects of multilingualism across the lifespan, has been revised during their tour in Bali and Borneo, in the light of linguistic diversity loss at the global level.
Indonesia is one of eight countries with 50 percent of the world’s endangered languages, according to UNESCO. Examining the tension between mono- and multilingualism in different places across the world highlights differences, but also common themes, which led Dr Bak to identify that the HLD model has much to offer when extended to encompass linguistic ecology and sustainability as well as social justice in language education.
The framework provides an alternative to currently dominating academic monolingualism, emphasising the value of epistemic diversity and aligning with the agenda of decolonisation.
This event will be particularly useful for researchers.
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