Language and migration

Digital mutual aid among migrants, in the shadow of ChatGPT

Ukrainian migrant asking ChatGPT to explain different types of rental contracts in Austria (still from Yudytska & Androutsopoulos 2025) For nearly four years now, I’ve been heavily involved in online…

Jenia YudytskaFebruary 9, 2026

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Language on the Move Podcast wins Talkley Award 2025

The team behind the Language-on-the-Move Podcast (Image credit: Language on the Move) Final piece of good news for the year before we head into a publishing break over January: we've…

Ingrid PillerDecember 30, 2025

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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

Next Gen Literacies

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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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

Language learning

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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Lies we tell ourselves about multilingualism

Just before the holidays, Professor Aneta Pavlenko and I chatted about Aneta’s new book Multilingualism and History. We talked about amnesia and ignorance pacts in contemporary sociolinguistics, ghost signs that point to dark…

Language learning

Schools transforming multilinguals into illiterates?

Mehrsprachige Buecher - multilingual books - ketabhaye chand zabane The release of the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011 Census of Population data is an invitation to reflect on the composition…

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How to Study Language and Social Relations in Times of Global Mobility

The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin Imagine you want to study language diversity as a phenomenon of contemporary society. Where do you start? You can, for example, ask teachers to count…

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Multilingual Commanding Urgency from Garbage to COVID-19

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The language cringe of the native speaker

Language and law

Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English

Intercultural communication

The exotic Chinese language

Language in education

Sink-or-swim for international students

English as a global language

Summer school and conference: Literacies for Social Participation

Found in Translation

How I worked as a foreign accent coach

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

Shared Reading Day 2025

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