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Language and social justice

Language, education and poverty

Last year the British Council initiated a dialogue about language policy and particularly language-in-education policy in Pakistan, and their report was recently published. The introduction includes the following two statements:…
Language learning

Why is it so hard for English teachers to learn Japanese?

A chapter by this site’s founders set me off on a path to doing a Ph.D. and made me re-evaluate my linguistic practises and my position as an English teacher…
Japanese women on the move
Language learning

Japanese women on the move

Thank you, Ingrid, for drawing my attention to this interesting online forum, Language on the Move,  and videos, Japanese on the Move. Based on empirical research on transnational Asian women in London,…
Language in education
Imagined communities in English language textbooks
Intercultural communication
The exotic Chinese language
Language politics
The politics of subtitling
Linguistic landscapes
Multilingual Tokyo
MARIKO WATANABE AND INGRID PILLER CELEBRATE THEIR REUNION AT YACCOMARICARD IN CHIT LOM
Intercultural communication
Communicating passion for fashion
Multilingual families
Children of migrant Deaf adults