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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

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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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Shared Reading Day 2025

(Image credit: © Gert Albrecht für DIE ZEIT, Stiftung Lesen, Deutsche Bahn Stiftung) Editor's note: Shared reading - the practice where adults read to children - has many benefits: it…

Larissa CosynsNovember 21, 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

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Literacy in Multilingual Contexts

The international research network "Literacy in Multilingual Contexts" builds on the "Next Generation Literacies" network The World Education Research Association (WERA) recently announced the launch of seven new International Research Networks…

Language on the MoveOctober 22, 2025

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Language brokering in schools

Are you a Sydney-based teacher who needs to communicate with parents who do not speak English or do not speak it well? Do you sometimes have to ask students to…

Language on the MoveOctober 15, 2025

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Event: New Technologies in Intercultural Communication

You are invited to join us on Monday, December 08, at Macquarie University for a workshop to explore New Technologies in Intercultural Communication. Description: Digital technologies are in the process…

Language on the MoveOctober 7, 2025

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Japanese on the Move in Tweets

For the past six months we have featured video interviews with 50 transnationals calling Japan and Australia home here on Language-on-the-Move. We wanted to know what it was like to…

Linguistic landscapes

Toiletological English

Toiletological English Can you guess what kind of product the following text is promoting? Your well-being is close to our heart rail&fresh areas are bright and friendly and leave nothing…

Language and migration

Australian Perspectives on “Language and Migration”

Language and migration: the workshop presenters and organizers On December 11th, Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University) and Donna Butorac (Curtin University), organised a workshop on Language and Migration for the 2015…

Language at work

Tipsy on multilingualism?!

Intercultural communication

“Made in Germany” at risk? Volkswagen and the German trademark

Language politics

Shibboleth: Kyrgyz or Uzbek?

Linguistic landscapes

Croc warning

Language learning

Saudi women, polygamy and ESL

Language in education

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Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2026

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