Language on the Move

Language and migration

Discourses of Integration: Language, Skills, and the Politics of Difference

From inside Jaume Plensa's House of Knowledge, Bordeaux, France (Photo by Shirley Yeung) In much of Western and Northern Europe, we find ourselves in the wake of a widespread retreat…

Mi-Cha Flubacher and Shirley YeungAugust 29, 2016

Language politics

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…

Britta SchneiderAugust 22, 2016

How language can entrench disadvantage

The New Books Network has just published an interview with Ingrid Piller about her new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. The host of the show, Chris Cummins, sums up the…

Lg_on_the_moveAugust 4, 2016

Multilingual histories

Serendipity, Cyberspace, and the Tactility of Documents

Front of postcard sent by Private Jacob Isak Sicherman on 1 June 1916 Remember library stacks? Browsing among books? Serendipitously finding on a nearby shelf what you didn’t know you…

Carol SichermanJuly 28, 2016

News

Download your ten favorite Multilingua articles for free!

Publishing house De Gruyter Mouton is celebrating their stellar performance in the 2015 Impact Factor ratings by giving you the opportunity to explore De Gruyter’s top 10 social sciences impact…

Lg_on_the_moveJuly 22, 2016

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Language at work

Would you mind if your child wanted to become an interpreter?

Images of glamorous interpreters in the recent Chinese movie “Les Interprètes” (Source: dramafever.com) I recently volunteered to give a presentation on the profession of translation and interpreting as a parent…

Jinhyun ChoJuly 17, 2016

Intercultural communication

Translation challenges of Kriol signage in the Top End

Supposedly Kriol signage at Rapid Creek, Darwin When I shared this Kriol sign on Facebook as an example of a bad Kriol translation, a first language Kriol speaker commented: Im…

Greg DicksonJune 30, 2016

Language and globalization

Have we just seen the beginning of the end of English?

One way of looking at the outcome of the British referendum is to understand it as an act of self-sabotage: "...and in the end, Britain, which had colonized the world,…

Ingrid PillerJune 25, 2016

Language in education

How to solve Australia’s language learning crisis

Demand action from our politicians to make a LOTE compulsory! The state of language learning in Australian schools is dire. This weekend the Sydney Morning Herald carried an article entitled “Why students are…

Ingrid PillerJune 15, 2016

News

#7 Top Language Professional Blog 2016

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Lg_on_the_moveJune 10, 2016

Language in education

Why does English spread in global academia?

The Linguistic Ethnography Forum’s e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s recent book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics is currently running. Some discussions so far are concerned…

Jinhyun ChoJune 5, 2016

News

2016 Top Language Professional Blogs competition

We are excited to have been selected as a 2016 Top 100 Language Professional Blog by the Language Lovers at Lexiophiles and bab.la. If you enjoy Language on the Move, please do…

Lg_on_the_moveMay 20, 2016

Language in education

Do monolingual teachers produce a Golem effect in multilingual students?

Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher expectations result in students’ lower academic performance. The positive effect…

Ingrid PillerMay 11, 2016

News

Invitation to e-seminar “Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice”

The Linguistic Ethnography Forum will host a free e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics. Please join us for this…

Lg_on_the_moveMay 4, 2016

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Multilingual histories

Portrait of a linguistic shirker

I recently pointed out that the widespread belief that migrants refuse to learn the language of their new country does not stack up against the realities of adult language learning.…

Ingrid PillerApril 28, 2016

Language and migration

Cleaning work: a stepping-stone or a dead-end job for migrants?

Kifibin’s workplace was a big event centre, which was open to the public only once a week Let me at once introduce you to the main character of this blog…

Maiju StrommerApril 13, 2016