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Language on the Move Podcast wins Talkley Award 2025

The team behind the Language-on-the-Move Podcast (Image credit: Language on the Move) Final piece of good news for the year before we head into a publishing break over January: we've…

Ingrid PillerDecember 30, 2025

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Language on the Move 2025

Unbelievably, another year has passed and it’s time to write another annual report. 2025 has been incredibly busy for us. Apart from everything we do in the real world, we’ve…

Ingrid PillerDecember 23, 2025

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Centering people in technology-mediated communication

Group photo, New Technologies in Intercultural Communication Symposium (Image credit: Language on the Move) On a crack-of-dawn flight early Monday morning last week, I flew to Sydney for the day…

Jemima Rillera KempsterDecember 18, 2025

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2026

"Read - Learn - Grow - Be Kind" - this street library says it all (Image credit: Language on the Move) The Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge 2026 is out! Now in…

Ingrid PillerDecember 11, 2025

Research reflections

ALAA 2025 at Charles Darwin University

Group photo of all awards recipients at ALAA Conference 2025 (Image credit: ALAA) Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Conference, held…

Sophie MunteDecember 2, 2025

Linguistic landscapes

From “Howdy” to “Hayakom”: A shifting university linguascape

Sara Hillman, Aishwaryaa Kannan, and Tim Tizon *** Figure 1: Transitional “Hayakom at HBKU” sign marking HBKU’s presence in the TAMUQ building (picture taken by authors) Walking into the…

Language on the MoveNovember 26, 2025

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Your languages are your superpower!

In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Cindy Valdez, an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) specialist, and Founder & CEO…

Agnes BodisNovember 17, 2025

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Introducing the Humboldt Professorship team

The president of University of Hamburg, Prof Dr Hauke Heekeren, welcomes the new members of Ingrid Piller's Humboldt Professorship Team Attentive readers will remember that in May this year we…

Ingrid PillerNovember 11, 2025

Language learning

Native listening and learning new sounds

I hear what you don’t hear Have you ever listened to a language you don’t know and thought you recognized a word—only to realize later that you were completely mistaken?…

Andrea PeškováNovember 5, 2025

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How can we change language habits?

Language choice in bilingual couples as habit (excerpt from Piller, 2002, p. 137) In my research with bilingual couples, habit emerged as one of the main reasons for a couple’s…

English as a global language

Multilingual provision is cheaper than English-Only

Hiroshi Mikitani, Englishnization in Marketplace 3.0 (Source: gettyimages.co.uk) The business and self-help section of my local Kinokuniya bookstore is currently featuring shelves and shelves of Marketplace 3.0: Rewriting the rules…

Language and law

Refugee credibility assessment and the vanishing interpreter

Dr Laura Smith-Khan during her keynote at InDialog (Image credit: Dries Cavents, UGhent) Editor's Note: Asylum seekers in countries of the Global North need to communicate a credible fear of…

Language at work

The sociolinguistics of nail care

Intercultural communication

Where are you from?

Language and globalization

Money makes the world go round

Language in education

Building bridges through multilingual schooling: a mother-tongue pilot in East Timor is showing the way

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Multilingual histories

Portrait of a linguistic shirker

Language and migration

Found in Translation

How I worked as a foreign accent coach

Digital mutual aid among migrants, in the shadow of ChatGPT

Language on the Move Podcast wins Talkley Award 2025

Language on the Move 2025

Centering people in technology-mediated communication

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2026

ALAA 2025 at Charles Darwin University

From “Howdy” to “Hayakom”: A shifting university linguascape

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Introducing the Humboldt Professorship team

Native listening and learning new sounds

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