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English belongs to everyone
English as a global language

English belongs to everyone?

English belongs to everyone? The claim that “English belongs to everyone who uses it” has continued to gain more and more cultural cache, at least in global (English) academic circles.…
Language and tourism

More on orientalism and tourism

Language-on-the-Move's recent blog post Orientalism and Tourism engages with the way ethnic minority people in China are represented in the West (and also by the Han majority in China). Not only…
Language in education

Educational success through bilingual education

Children in a bilingual program in Hamburg (Source: AlsterKind) It is a key finding of contemporary educational research that the children of migrants experience educational disadvantage vis-à-vis their native-born peers.…
Language and social justice
Muslims, Catholics, foreign language speakers and other traitors
Language and migration
Racism without racists
Language and globalization
Do you ever wear language?
Ingrid Piller in conversation with Steve Price on 2GB Radio
Language in Australia
Should Australians learn another language?
Language and migration
Discrimination by any other name: Language tests and racist migration policy in Australia
Language and migration
A Tamil Hindu Temple in Australia