Further reading
To read:
- About WoLLoW
- The teaching of languages – John Claughton
- Britain risks becoming a ‘monolingual society’ after Brexit, headteachers warn amid steep decline in modern language degrees – The Telegraph
- Arabic Language and Culture Programme – British Council
- Reports on language education – CLIE
- White Paper: Primary Languages Policy in England – The Way Forward – Research in Primary Languages
- Language teaching in schools (England) – House of Commons Library
- How to kill the English language – The Spectator
- Monolingual Britain and the crisis of the heritage language school – New Statesman
- Research in Primary Languages White Paper, available through RiPL website
- The stories of English – David Crystal (ISBN 978-0198850694)
- Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation – David Crystal (ISBN 978-1781256091)
- Dent’s Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain – Susie Dent (ISBN 978-1473623897)
- Susie Dent’s Weird Words – Susie Dent (ISBN 978-1407137025)
- Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year – Susie Dent (ISBN 978-1529311518)
- How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie, a national companion – Susie Dent (ISBN 978-1905211791)
- Planet Word – J. P. Davidson (ISBN 978-0718157746)
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language – Steven Pinker (ISBN 978-0140175295)
- The Unfolding Of Language: The Evolution of Mankind’s greatest Invention – Guy Deutscher (ISBN 978-0099460251)
- Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other – Guy Deutscher (ISBN 978-0099505570)
- Nike, Nurses and Neon – The Ancient Greek and Latin words we use every day – Nigel P. Brown (ISBN 978-1844546503)
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language – David Crystal (ISBN 978-0521530330)
- Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling – David Crystal (ISBN 978-1846685682)
- The Adventure Of English: The Biography of a Language – Melvyn Bragg (ISBN 978-0340829936)
- Aikhenvald, A. I Saw the Dog: How Language Works (2021)
- Bellos, A. The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book (2021)
- Deutscher, G. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (2011)
- Deutscher, G. The Unfolding Of Language: The Evolution of Mankind`s greatest Invention (2006)
- Dorren, G. Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (2014)
- Dorren, G. Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (2018)
- Duncan, D, Harrison, S., Kohl, K. and Reynolds, M. Babel: Adventures in Translation (2019)
- Edwards, J. Multilingualism: Understanding Linguistic Diversity (2023)
- Hardach, S. Languages Are Good For Us (2021)
- Maher, J. Multilingualism: A Very Short Introduction (2017)
- Mak, Y-L. Other Wordly: words both strange and lovely from around the world (2016)
- Marian, V. The Power of Language: Multilingualism, Self and Society (2023)
- Nikolic, Z. The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An Exploration of Language, People and Geography (2021)
- Sanders, E. Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words (2015)
- Sanders, E. Speaking in Tongues: Curious Expressions from Around the World (2016)
- Babel
- The Linguist
- The Language Magazine