Language on the Move

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

2020 has been a strange year for reading: some of us have had a lot more time for reading, others far less. Regardless whether you’ve been able to indulge or…

Language on the MoveDecember 3, 2020

Covid-19 News

Symposium: Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis

Update, Nov 15, 2020: The "Linguistic Diversity in a Time of Crisis" symposium last week was a huge success in international research collaboration and engagement, with over 2,600 viewers tuning…

Language on the MoveOctober 27, 2020

Covid-19

More on crisis communication in multilingual Australia

Editor’s note: The Covid-19 crisis has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of the…

Language on the MoveOctober 13, 2020

Covid-19

Crisis communication in multilingual Australia

Editor's note: The Covid-19 crisis has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of…

Language on the MoveOctober 12, 2020

Language in Australia

Decolonising sociolinguistic research

Celeste Rodriguez Louro and Glenys Collard, University of Western Australia *** The histories and everyday experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia are etched in the landscape,…

Language on the MoveSeptember 14, 2020

Covid-19

Covid-19 exposes language and migration tensions in Denmark

Martha Sif Karrebæk and Solvej Helleshøj Sørensen, University of Copenhagen *** Editor’s note: Covid-19 has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have…

Language on the MoveSeptember 9, 2020

News

Literacy in heritage language maintenance

The NSW Federation of Community Language Schools offers an online master class about "Literacy in heritage language maintenance" as part of its community language teacher training development series. This series…

Language on the MoveAugust 25, 2020

News

Missing the Hamburg International Summer School?

If it wasn't for the Covid-19 pandemic, the Hamburg International Summer School (HISS) devoted to “Language Diversity, Education, and Social Participation” would be in full swing right now. As it…

Language on the MoveJuly 21, 2020

News

Multilingualism, religion and spirituality in Australian life

Uluru (Image Credit: Ondrej Machart via Unsplash) Call for papers: Exploring multilingualism, religion and spirituality in Australian life Editors: Dr Robyn Moloney, Macquarie University; and Very Rev Fr Dr Shenouda…

Language on the MoveJuly 15, 2020

Covid-19

Recent-arrival migrant students during the Covid-19 school closures

Elisabeth Barakos and Simone Plöger, University of Hamburg *** Editor’s note: Learning from home is hard enough but what if you are simultaneously learning the language of instruction? In this…

Language on the MoveMay 25, 2020

Covid-19 News

Homeschooling during Covid-19: research participants wanted

Image credit: NPR Are you a family who speaks a language other than English at home? Do you have a school-aged child who has been learning from home during the…

Language on the MoveMay 21, 2020

Covid-19

Staring down the Covid-19 lockdown with multilingual humor

Sue Ollerhead, Lecturer (Languages Education), Macquarie University, Australia Shepi Mati: Lecturer (Radio) Rhodes University, South Africa Monica Hendricks: Director: Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, South…

Language on the MoveMay 12, 2020

Covid-19

How are language service providers affected by COVID-19?

Lifei Wang, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University Jiangwei Sun, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University Jie Ren, School of Translation and…

Language on the MoveApril 1, 2020

Covid-19

Language lessons of COVID-19 and linguistic disaster preparedness

Li Yuming Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and Research Center for Standardized Use of Chinese Language, Beijing Language and Culture University *** Editor’s note: This is a translated…

Language on the MoveMarch 27, 2020

Language and globalization

Preparing Filipino accountants to communicate in global workplaces

How do universities in the Philippines prepare accounting students for communication in global workplaces? Watch this research presentation by Pia Tenedero to find out. This presentation was originally intended for…

Language on the MoveMarch 9, 2020

News

Critical inclusion and the doctoral student

Our Lectures in Linguistic Diversity are back for another year and we are starting with a guest lecture by Dr David Hyatt, University of Sheffield, UK. Date: Tuesday, 10 March…

Language on the MoveFebruary 21, 2020