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

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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

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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Language and globalization

Who’s inward-looking?

Yoshiko Nakano's essay in Yomiuri Newspaper “Young people in Japan no longer want to go abroad.” This news reached me in Australia last year and formed part of the background…

Bangladeshi manager speaking English and subtitled in British educational video “How fair is fashion”

English as a global language

Illegitimate English

Bangladeshi manager speaking English and subtitled in British educational video "How fair is fashion?" The other day I watched a show about global textile production. How fair is fashion? by…

Intercultural communication

The colonial cringe in academia

When I lived in Abu Dhabi, I once visited a university in another Middle Eastern country. As part of the visit I did a guest lecture about my research, I…

English as a global language

Global toys in a local world

Intercultural communication

More than meets the eye

Multilingual families

Victory in battle to stream German content to USA

Linguistic landscapes

Banal multilingualism

Reza's well-used Japanese-Persian and English-Persian dictionaries

Multilingual families

A tale of two foreigners in Japan

Language learning

Language on the Move Podcast wins Talkley Award 2025

Language on the Move 2025

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

Your languages are your superpower!

Introducing the Humboldt Professorship team

Literacy in Multilingual Contexts

Language brokering in schools

Event: New Technologies in Intercultural Communication

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