This study explored the theme of unity in President Joe Biden's Inauguration Speech on the 20th of January from a linguistic perspective. The main research question was: How was the theme of unity conveyed in this particular speech through linguistic choices? The significance of this work lies in the fact that this specific speech has not been…

This paper reports on a study that examined a Shared Education program recently implemented in Israel based on the Northern Ireland model. Sixth-grade children from two schools -- one Jewish and one Arab, who study in separate education systems and have very limited contacts with one another -- met to learn English (as an additional language)…

This paper explores the concept of additive bidialectalism and argues that promoting it in dialectally diverse English language classrooms such as in Singapore can help address the 'problem' of non-standard language use in these contexts. Although its historical trajectory goes back to the 1970s, additive bidialectalism, especially in postcolonial…