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Medical receptionists facilitate language access: Brynn Quick wins 2026 ALAA 3MT competition

Congratulations to Brynn Quick, who just won the 2026 3-minute-thesis competition of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA)! Watch her explain her research about medical receptionists and how they…

Language on the MoveOctober 9, 2026

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Aboriginal languages in Australia’s parliament

Last year, I wrote here on Language on the Move about Members of Parliament (MPs) across Australia making linguistic diversity visible. My research amplifies the increasing numbers of elected representatives…

Alexandra GreySeptember 30, 2026

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How were foreign languages learned in early modern Europe?

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick chats with Professor Dr. Natalia Filatkina, Dr. Kerstin Roth and Research Associate Miriam Hinterholzer. All three work at…

Brynn QuickSeptember 23, 2026

Intercultural communication Language learning

Tuning in to the melody of another language

“Eh, what?!” When a different melody causes confusion It happened to me again. I said something, and my interlocutor’s reaction was: “I don’t know.” There is something in the melody…

Andrea PeškováSeptember 9, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Intercultural communication

Linguistic unease in healthcare

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick chats with Dr. Nicole Marinaro, a sociolinguist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg. Her work explores…

Brynn QuickSeptember 2, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

Speech and the City

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Yaron Matras about his new book Speech and the City. In this timely book, Yaron shows…

Ingrid PillerAugust 26, 2026

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Epistemic belonging and purposeful interactions

Editor’s note: The 2026 Hamburg International Summer School "Literacies for Social Participation" has come and gone. For those of us fortunate enough to attend, it was an epic learning opportunity with…

Language on the MoveAugust 12, 2026

Intercultural communication

Start learning Esperanto now!

Editor’s note: The 111th World Congress of Esperanto is currently taking place in the Austrian city of Graz. According to Austrian National TV, more than 1,100 attendees from 62 countries…

Nicole ElseAugust 6, 2026

Next Gen Literacies

Teaching Reading With Social Justice

Editor's note: Narrow views of reading as purely a mechanical skill have recently gained renewed traction. Literacy programs that strip away the social and cultural contexts of reading and writing run…

Judy KalmanJuly 15, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Next Gen Literacies

Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the US

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick sits down with Dr. Nelson Flores to discuss his 2024 book entitled Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy…

Brynn QuickJuly 9, 2026

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Building the Danish boar fence (Image credit: NDR) Fences are popular these days: not only in the US with its border-wall-to-Mexico saga but also in Denmark, which recently started to…

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Mi-Cha Flubacher, Alfonso Del Percio and Alexandre Duchêne (Institute of Multilingualism, University/PH Fribourg), are inviting papers for the thematic session "The legitimate speaker in a transforming political economy" (Session ID…

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