In this library, children like to "cook the books" in the toy oven (Source: Smith, 2017) In preparation for a course on “Literacies” I’m teaching this semester, I spent the…
Ingrid PillerJuly 31, 2017
Top 10 languages other than English spoken in England and Wales, 2011 (Source: ONS) Modern languages are not merely European languages. Obvious as this may seem, it needs restating as…
Jieun KiaerMay 29, 2017
Presenters and members of the organizing team at the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium Last week the Language-on-the-Move team at Macquarie University was fortunate to host a delegation of education researchers…
Ingrid PillerMarch 27, 2017
Grade 2 Oral Tetun class Editor's note: As the Language on the Move team is busy preparing for the "Bridging Language Barriers" Symposium to be hosted at Macquarie University on March 16,…
Kerry Taylor-LeechMarch 2, 2017
ESL teachers play an important role in home language maintenance (Image Credit: Macquarie University) Learning the host country’s language is important for migrants but we should not forget that maintaining…
Agnes BodisSeptember 21, 2016
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
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
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
Albanian-Greek border crossing at Kakavijë (Source: greece.com) Our understanding of the role of language in social life suffers from a particularly intractable problem: the terms we use to speak about…
Ingrid PillerApril 6, 2016
Grace Chu-Lin Chang has completed her PhD thesis entitled “Language learning, academic achievement, and overseas experience: A sociolinguistic study of Taiwanese students in Australian higher education”. The thesis is now available…
Grace Chu-Lin ChangFebruary 23, 2016
Alex spent a stimulating summer centered on child multilingualism away from the leafy Macquarie campus Macquarie University campus seemed to sleep in the summer sun once the semester ended last…
Alexandra GreyFebruary 16, 2016
Benz, Victoria. 2015. Dynamics of bilingual early childhood education: Parental attitudes and institutional realisation. PhD. Macquarie University. Victoria Benz recently completed her PhD thesis about “Dynamics of bilingual early childhood education: Parental…
Lg_on_the_moveAugust 5, 2015
Children in a bilingual program in Hamburg (Source: AlsterKind) It is a key finding of contemporary educational research that the children of migrants experience educational disadvantage vis-à-vis their native-born peers.…
Ingrid PillerJune 17, 2015
Preschool in Karlsruhe, Germany (Source: DW) Ever since my research for my 2002 book Bilingual Couples Talk I’ve regularly been told by people – or been asked to confirm their…
Ingrid PillerMay 20, 2015
"Naughty boys" in the media: image from the Channel 4 gangs and drugs drama "Top Boy" Teacher expectations can constitute a self-fulfilling prophecy: teachers behave differently towards children depending on…
Ingrid PillerMay 13, 2015
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