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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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The Linguistic Ethnography Forum’s e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s recent book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics is currently running. Some discussions so far are concerned…

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Language learning through public speaking

Chinese university students in a debate, 2011 (Photo by Nikki Feng) Public speaking can constitute an excellent language learning tool, as I discovered through participating in public speaking activities in…

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Polish cemetery in Tehran

Polish refugee section of the Catholic cemetery in Tehran When Kimie Takahashi and myself interviewed participants for Japanese on the Move, our video exhibition of transnational life-stories, one of our…

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