<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;box-sizing:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sparking large-scale change in heritage language education: A Global Call to Action<br></font></span></span></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></span></div>In time for UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day 2024, which celebrates students’ universal right to study their heritage languages, a new global think tank of academics and practitioners have created an </span></span><a target="_blank" href="https://menntavisindastofnun.hi.is/is/global-call-hle" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-z-E-z gmail-_1i-uR" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(56,182,255)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">easy-to-use list of recommendations</span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> for everyone – from students to mainstream schools to policy-makers – to help improve heritage language and culture education for multilingual children worldwide.  </span></span> </font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">If you want to help heritage language educators and the children they support, please be sure to pledge commitment to the Global Call to Action publicly on social media and share widely within your networks.</font></span><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Press release:  </span></font><a href="https://www.hlenet.org/post/global-call-hle">https://www.hlenet.org/post/global-call-hle</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-v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