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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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

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language learning

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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English as a global language

English Gangnam Style

Panel devoted to Jeju Global Education City (Source: Jeju Weekly) Now that Psy’s “Gangnam Style” has become a global hit, I wonder if you know what Gangnam is? The dictionary…

Intercultural communication

Intercultural rhetoric

MQ VC Prof. Schwartz at the Library Opening Ceremony I was lucky to be able to join the opening ceremony of Macquarie University's new library on 28 March. The event…

Language and migration

Getting past the ‘indigenous’ vs. ‘immigrant’ language debate

"The English" migrated to their "ancestral homeland" in the first few centuries of the Common Era (Source: Wikipedia) “Indigenous languages” and “immigrant languages” are much discussed in language policy research,…

Language and law

We all have a culture, we all speak a language: the Australian legal system discusses diversity

Language and globalization

Why being in one place matters for transnational language use

Language in education

What do migrant parents expect from schools?

Language in Australia

Heritage language education in Australia and Sweden

Language and globalization

Globalization between crime and piety

Language learning

Language on the Move Podcast wins Talkley Award 2025

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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

Shared Reading Day 2025

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Introducing the Humboldt Professorship team

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Language brokering in schools

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