{"id":207147,"date":"2022-03-21T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=207147"},"modified":"2022-03-15T08:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T08:49:30","slug":"plea-to-second-language-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/03\/plea-to-second-language-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea to Second Language Educators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear second language educators,<\/p>\n<p>When to your teaching Peace Linguistics you apply<br \/>\nyour students achieve more than communication<br \/>\nThey experience a deep transformation<br \/>\nand with these principles they learn to comply:<br \/>\nThe peaceful use of language edifies<br \/>\nand creates a world that unifies<br \/>\nLet\u2019s commit to character-elevation<br \/>\nand enhance our dignity cultivation<br \/>\nLet\u2019s share a Love for Life celebration<br \/>\nand develop an Art for Peace appreciation<br \/>\nlet\u2019s use languages for intercultural cooperation<br \/>\nand overcome all types of linguistic discrimination<br \/>\nLet\u2019s share a world where compassion everywhere is true<br \/>\nwhere the languages we use will help anticipate what will be peacefully new<\/p>\n<p><em>________________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a> <\/em><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasil Am\u00e9rica (<a href=\"www.abaweb.org\">www.abaweb.org<\/a>). <\/em><em>He can be reached at <a href=\"fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com\">fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear second language educators,<br \/>\nWhen to your teaching Peace Linguistics you apply<br \/>\nyour students achieve more than communication<br \/>\nThey experience a deep transformation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":84401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1729,868],"class_list":["post-207147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-peace-linguistics","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}