In this episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar, an academic based in the Graduate Research School at the University of New England,…
Hanna TorshFebruary 25, 2025
In Episode 16 of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Emeritus Professor Joseph Lo Bianco about his new co-edited book, Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming…
Hanna TorshMay 7, 2024
Long-time Language-on-the-Move team members and friends Hanna Torsh and Alex Grey got to sit down for a formal interview Here are Language on the Move we know that linguistic diversity…
Hanna TorshJanuary 31, 2024
Professor Gogolin speaks at the International Symposium on Bilingualism Why is linguistic diversity important in creating educational equity? How is the migrant experience different across different nations? How does the…
Hanna TorshJuly 21, 2023
Image credit: Alexander Dummer via Unsplash In the current crisis, when schools and childcare centres may be closed for long periods, many families have to make choices about work and…
Hanna TorshJune 3, 2020
Professor Peter Siemund, Hamburg University, during his guest lecture at Macquarie University It is easy to assume that bilinguals are better at adding another language to their repertoire. But is…
Hanna TorshOctober 5, 2018
Dr Fadila Boutouchent during her guest lecture at Macquarie University When she was in kindergarten, my oldest daughter came home one day talking about "our soldiers" who "went to war for…
Hanna TorshAugust 29, 2018
"How bad is your cultural cringe?" (Source: Jenna Guillaume, BuzzFeed) Keith: I’m still really shit at pronouncing Lisa’s surname. With the umlaut o. Hanna: What is Lisa’s surname? (laughter) Keith:…
Hanna TorshJune 10, 2015
English-Only Australia? (Source: blogs.crikey.com.au) In recent Australian political conversation, there is an increasingly bipartisan recognition of the value of cultural and linguistic diversity. So it’s fair to ask, what is…
Hanna TorshJuly 28, 2013
Australia in Asia (Source: unitingworld.org.au) Since starting a PhD in February in a different field to my previous work, I’ve been running a weekly alert with the words “language” and…
Hanna TorshOctober 2, 2012
Bilingual Sydney-based couples wanted for research participation Researchers at Macquarie University are looking for bilingual couples and families to volunteer for a study on language, identity and culture. We are…
Hanna TorshAugust 17, 2012
I’m chatting in English to a medical student from Germany who is visiting Sydney, Australia, and we’ve already talked about how I lived in Germany for a while and speak…
Hanna TorshMay 15, 2012
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