Languages of the World: An open, multimodal educational resource designed for inclusivity, accessibility, and curiosity

Languages of the World: An open, multimodal educational resource designed for inclusivity, accessibility, and curiosity guides the user on a tour of many of the world's languages through lenses often omitted from introductory undergraduate linguistics courses, such as historical relationships, writing systems, typology, and naming. This resource attends to signed and other non-spoken language modalities throughout the text and decenters English and other European languages to the extent feasible.

Featuring conversational text, video, audio, and images, this multimodal educational resource prepares users to

• Engage in informed discussion about a variety of languages and language features
• Accurately articulate personal language positionality and shared features of all human languages, compare linguistic structures across a variety of human languages, and describe naming practices across languages and time
• Reflect on modalities (eg., speech, sign, text) and writing systems, pragmatic knowledge of language use, and implications of linguistic diversity on current social and educational issues
• Respectfully inquire about language use
• Present their understanding of one language in a novel way

Teaching with Languages of the World: An open, multimodal educational resource designed for inclusivity is facilitated with a sample course syllabus, suggested formative and summative assessments, and an authentic final project.