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Language learning

Japanese lessons learnt from Velcro tape

"Velcro on one pocket coming away at the edge. Please repair and bring back tomorrow for checking." This was the note I had dreaded from my son’s teacher. The Velcro…

Angela Turzynski-AzimiApril 13, 2012

Erosion caused by rabbits in a gully in South Australia

Language in Australia

Southern Alienation

Erosion caused by rabbits in a gully in South Australia I’ve spent this morning decorating Easter eggs and making origami Easter bunnies with my child. Tomorrow I’m going to host an Easter egg hunt and in…

Ingrid PillerApril 7, 2012

Doing a PhD – travelling a difficult road

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Applied Linguistics @MQ: New directions in the sociolinguistics of globalization

The next seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held on Thursday, April 19: New directions in the sociolinguistics of globalization Roundtable with graduating PhD…

Lg_on_the_moveApril 6, 2012

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Linguistics Ethnography Forum E-Seminar

THIRD UK LINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHY FORUM E-SEMINAR Ingrid Piller. Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Chapter 10: Intercultural Communication in a Multilingual World When: 30th April – 18th…

Lg_on_the_moveApril 6, 2012

English as a global language

انگلیسی یا فارسی؟

Persian translation of English or Persian? مترجم: بهنام کیماسی معنای ماشین نوشته یِ انگلیسیِ رویِ این اتومبیل چیست؟ این یکی از سوال هایی بود که من در دومین کارگاه آموزشی…

Ingrid PillerApril 4, 2012

Next Gen Literacies

Swimming against the global linguistic tide

I’m one of the comparatively unlucky few swimming against the global linguistic tide. I’m a mother tongue speaker of English, “the” global language. That means if I want to become…

Christof Demont-HeinrichApril 3, 2012

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.…

Christof Demont-HeinrichMarch 26, 2012

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Intercultural Communication Conference

ZUEL, WuhanIntercultural Literacy, Communication, and Competence in the Context of Multiculturalism Nov 16-18, 2012, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China The Foreign Languages School of Zhongnan University of…

Zhang Jie 张洁March 22, 2012

Language in Australia

Beyond Harmony Day

Cabramatta, Australia Last week an email was sent around my office about our upcoming Harmony Day celebration on 21 March. The email suggested that to mark the occasion, interested staff could…

Sheila PhamMarch 21, 2012

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Happy Norouz!

Very best wishes for a happy, healthy and successful New Year to everyone celebrating Norouz!

Lg_on_the_moveMarch 20, 2012

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Live stream | Lisa Fairbrother

Applied Linguistics @MQ Seminar Series will live stream Lisa Fairbrother's seminar, "Experiences of ‘being different’ in Tokyo: an examination of the effects of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ on intercultural interactions in Japan" , 12…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江March 13, 2012

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Applied Linguistics@MQ: Linguistic diversity & social justice

The next seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held next week: Linguistic diversity and social justice Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University Abstract: My…

Ingrid PillerMarch 12, 2012

Research reflections

Strange academic women

Editor's note, 22/01/2014: One of the joys of running Language on the Move is to experience its international collaborative reach in action. Two years ago, one of our readers, Olya Belenkaya, asked…

Ingrid PillerMarch 7, 2012

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Applied Linguistics@MQ: Being different in Tokyo

Update: Change of venue to W6B 301 Conferencing Rm The next seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held next week: Experiences of ‘being…

Lg_on_the_moveMarch 6, 2012

Language learning

Is there such a thing as postmodern bilingual education?

I’m not a big fan of what I call “breathless academic postmodernism,” or what I view as the often naïve valorization of, among other things, hybridization, creolization, liminality, polysemy, multiplicity,…

Christof Demont-HeinrichMarch 3, 2012