We are delighted to welcome Rubina Khanam (PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Regina) back as our guest blogger this week. Rubina is a sessional lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. She teaches pre-service teachers in the areas of multilingualism in schools, second language pedagogy, cross-cultural teaching strategies, and social justice issues. Rubina’s doctoral dissertation is about English language planning and policy in Bangladesh as a postcolonial context. Her earlier BILD blog post can be read here .

Do all languages have thank you?

I wonder.

Do they always say it in the same way?

My curious mind wants to know.

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