Next Gen Literacies – Page 6 – Language on the Move

Language in Australia Language in education Next Gen Literacies

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 and migration Next Gen Literacies

Life in a language you are still learning

Mis dos voces (Image credit: Rayon Verde) Imagine this: you go out to a fast-food restaurant and order a burger. While you wait for your order to be filled, you…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 9, 2022

Language and law Next Gen Literacies

Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge for Legal Policy

(Image credit: Tingey Injury Law Firm, via Unsplash) The Griffith Law Review has just published a thematic issue on ‘Linguistic diversity as a challenge to legal policy’, which Laura Smith-Khan…

Alexandra GreyJanuary 31, 2022

Covid-19 Next Gen Literacies

Care, inclusion, and resistance in Covid linguistic landscapes

Figure 1: Bilingual Squamish and English placard in West Vancouver’s Park Royal shopping village As the Covid-19 pandemic heads toward its third year, with the Omicron variant in full swing,…

Sarah HopkynsJanuary 24, 2022

Next Gen Literacies

Monolingual school websites as barriers to parent engagement

(Image credit: Markus Spiske via Unsplash) Parental engagement is a critical aspect of student achievement When we think about student achievement, we typically think about student qualities: how smart a…

Ingrid PillerDecember 15, 2021

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Publishing is an insiders game

At the beginning of this year, Dr Pia Tenedero shared 10 tips to survive your PhD. As the year comes to a close, we hear from her again with reflections…

Ingrid PillerDecember 10, 2021

Next Gen Literacies

Peripheral language learners and the romance of Thai

The South China-Laos-Thailand region with the new railway line (Source: South China Morning Post) Language learning through watching films and playing videogames is a new trend. This kind of informal…

Li JiaDecember 4, 2021

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2022

The Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading in the discipline and beyond, and to make linguistics reading fun. Anyone with an interest in the…

Language on the MoveNovember 30, 2021

Next Gen Literacies

Esports are the new linguistic and cultural frontier

The heroic EDG esports winning team of League of Legends Chinese esports team Edward Gaming, or EDG for short, has just won the first ever Leagues of Legend (LoL) world…

Li JiaNovember 15, 2021

Next Gen Literacies

Securing the borders of English and Whiteness

Australia as a White nation has deep roots: the aim of this 1914 board game was literally "to get the Coloured Men out and the White men in" (Image credit:…

Ingrid PillerNovember 8, 2021

Language and law Next Gen Literacies

Bringing linguistic research to legal education

Image credit: Chris Montgomery via Unsplash Language plays a central role in legal settings. The way linguistic diversity is conceptualized and accommodated can affect access to justice in a myriad…

Laura Smith-KhanNovember 2, 2021

Covid-19 Next Gen Literacies

Language and communication in crisis

Malinche mediating between the Spanish and the Americans (Source: Lienzo de Tlaxcala, mid 16th c) We live in an age of crisis, as humanity confronts an ever-escalating climate and environmental…

Ingrid PillerOctober 30, 2021

Next Gen Literacies

We, heirs of the multilingual Sumerians

The Sumerian Empire under King Shulgi (2094 to 2046 BCE) (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Do you know in which language the Sumerians started the written chronicle of humanity? It is a…

Ingrid PillerJuly 18, 2021

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Next Gen Literacies

What can Australian Message Sticks teach us about literacy?

Few people have ever heard about a fascinating form of visual communication used by Indigenous Australians: message sticks. When I teach about the invention of writing, I usually mention them…

Ingrid PillerAugust 18, 2020

Next Gen Literacies

Who invented writing?

The Phoenician abjad - the ancestor of almost all scripts in use today (Image credit: Wikipedia) Today, literacy has become near universal with the global literacy rate around 85 percent.…

Ingrid PillerAugust 4, 2020

Next Gen Literacies

Why are academic lectures so weird?

My "audience" as I was recording the first online lecture for the new term Yesterday, I spent six hours pre-recording a puny little lecture of 15 minutes for the postgraduate…

Ingrid PillerJuly 27, 2020

Heritage language education in Australia and Sweden

Life in a language you are still learning

Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge for Legal Policy

Publishing is an insiders game

Peripheral language learners and the romance of Thai

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2022

Esports are the new linguistic and cultural frontier

Securing the borders of English and Whiteness

Bringing linguistic research to legal education

Language and communication in crisis

We, heirs of the multilingual Sumerians

What can Australian Message Sticks teach us about literacy?

Who invented writing?

Why are academic lectures so weird?

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