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Language in education Next Gen Literacies

Kurdish Heritage Language Education

Ez li welêt mamoste bûm. Lê piştî 12 Îlonê em ketin hepsê. Hepsê de em hinek kurdî elimîn. (Mamoste Mesud, Kurdish language teacher in Germany, pseudonym) This testimony comes from…

Martin Serif DerinceApril 15, 2026

Language in education Next Gen Literacies

Why “critical” use of AI in education might mean refusal

"AI can't teach our kids to be curious and think critically" (Image credit: ABC News, Jason Om) UNESCO’s ‘Digital Learning Week’, which focused on AI and the future of education,…

Ana Sofia BruzonSeptember 30, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language in education

Sexual predation and English language teaching

In this episode Hanna Torsh talks to Vaughan Rapatahana about sexual predation in the English language teaching industry. Dr Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa) is an author, poet and editor who…

Hanna TorshSeptember 2, 2025

Language in education Next Gen Literacies

Immigrant Teachers Are Reshaping English Education

*** Dr Nashid Nigar and Professor Alex Kostogriz *** Imagine stepping into a classroom where students expect you to embody English in its “native” form, fluency, and culture. For many non-native…

Language on the MoveMarch 18, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language in education

Why teachers turn to AI

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Sue Ollerhead about an article that Sue has recently written for the Australian Association for Research in Education…

Brynn QuickJanuary 9, 2025

Language in education Linguistic landscapes

Mindful about multilingualism

*** By Maria Regina P. Arriero and Pia Tenedero *** Each year, we celebrate Buwan ng Wika or (National) Language Month in the Philippines. Formerly focused only on the Filipino…

Pia TenederoNovember 25, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language in education

Supporting multilingual families to engage with schools

How can school communications become more accessible to multilingual families? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, I speak to Professor Margaret Kettle about the Multilingual Glossary…

Agnes BodisNovember 20, 2024

Language in education Next Gen Literacies

对于西藏英语教学实践的超语实践探索

编者注： "土著人民有权建立和管理他们的教育系统和机构，以适合其文化教学方法的方式，用自己的语言提供教育"。 (联合国《土著人民权利宣言》第14条）。尽管有诸如此类的国际保护措施，原住民在教育领域仍然处于劣势地位。本文着眼于以超语实践理论，探求解答这一问题的途径。 English version of this article available here. *** 作者：余星星, Nashid Nigar, 钱祺 *** Tibetan Buddhist stupa and houses…

Language on the MoveJune 7, 2023

Language in education Next Gen Literacies

Translanguaging the English language curriculum in Tibet

Tibetan Buddhist stupa and houses outside the town of Ngawa, on the Tibetan Plateau (Image credit: Wikipedia) Editor's note: "Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational…

Language on the MoveJune 2, 2023

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Heritage language education in Australia and Sweden

What stops Australia from doing something like Sweden has done to promote multilingualism? Is it too hard to implement mother tongue instruction in the education system of Australia? On the…

Language on the MoveFebruary 21, 2022

Language in education

Will education reform wipe out Mongolian language and culture?

A herder guards the Mongolian script (Image credit: Ayin) As the danger of life-threatening Covid-19 has subsided, Mongols in Inner Mongolia, a region of northern China, have faced a new…

Gegentuul BaioudAugust 30, 2020

Language in education

Bilingual children in preschool

Dr Kerry Taylor-Leech researches early childhood education in an English-Samoan bilingual preschool Early childhood is an important period in the physical, social, emotional, cognitive and linguistic development of a child.…

Ingrid PillerJune 13, 2019

Language in education

No Child Left Behind: a study in unintended consequences

President George W. Bush signs the "No Child Left Behind" act in 2002 (Image credit: Wikipedia) In 2001, the United States government responded to the apparent lack of quality education…

Emily McKinneyMay 23, 2019

Language in education

Fences, language and education

Building the Danish boar fence (Image credit: NDR) Fences are popular these days: not only in the US with its border-wall-to-Mexico saga but also in Denmark, which recently started to…

Martha Sif KarrebækMay 10, 2019

Language in education

Imagined communities in English language textbooks

Cover page of the first textbook in the Lift Off series Although the Saudi government does its best to provide effective English language teaching and learning, there are widespread concerns…

Awatif AlshammriDecember 5, 2018

Language in education

What do migrant parents expect from schools?

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

Kurdish Heritage Language Education

Why “critical” use of AI in education might mean refusal

Sexual predation and English language teaching

Immigrant Teachers Are Reshaping English Education

Why teachers turn to AI

Mindful about multilingualism

Supporting multilingual families to engage with schools

对于西藏英语教学实践的超语实践探索

Translanguaging the English language curriculum in Tibet

Heritage language education in Australia and Sweden

Bilingual children in preschool

No Child Left Behind: a study in unintended consequences

Fences, language and education

Imagined communities in English language textbooks

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