We wish all our readers a peaceful and healthy New Year!
It is our pleasure to share “Outcry for Freedom” – our talented team member Dr Shiva Motaghi-Tabari’s new song, which is dedicated to people everywhere seeking freedom and justice.
Below you’ll find a list of our 2022 blog posts so that you can re-read your favorites or discover new ones.
December
- Ingrid Piller, Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2023
- Loy Lising, How to balance academic workloads
- Ingrid Piller, “Baraye” – preposition of the year

Dr Madiha Neelam graduated from her PhD this year
November
- Laura Smith-Khan wins Max Crawford Medal
- Yining Wang, 如何促进移民的社会融入-基督教会带给我们的启示
- Ingrid Piller, Bilingual double vision
- Pia Tenedero, Accountants as language workers
- Adolé Akue-Dovi & Liesa Rühlmann, Do children notice racism in their favorite radio dramas?
- Language Diversity Symposium 2022
October
- Katarzyna Sepielak, Dawid Wladyka, and William Yaworsky, What happens when researcher and researched speak different languages?
- Ingrid Piller, The world’s top-2% most-cited linguists
- Rizwan Ahmad, Mal Lawwal: Linguistic landscapes of Qatar
- Ingrid Piller, “Women, life, freedom” – the slogan swimming against the global tide
September
- Ingrid Piller, What’s next for the Queen’s English?

Dr Loy Lising winning a Lighthouse Award was another highlight
August
- Ingrid Piller, Language barriers to social participation
- Niru Perera, A Tamil Hindu temple in Australia
July
- Ingrid Piller, Food connections
- Spanish-speaking families in Sydney wanted
- Xiaofang Yao, Creativity and exclusion in China’s COVID-19 linguistic landscapes
- Judith Reynolds, Sara Ganassin and Prue Holmes, Researching multilingually as a political act
June
- Ingrid Piller, In memoriam Hans Sauer
May
- Participants wanted: School-family communication
- Ingrid Piller, How to challenge Anglocentricity in academic publishing

Our Reading Group was finally back in person in 2022
April
- Gerald Roche and Claire French, Global coalition for language rights
- Jeffrey Gil, How I became an applied linguist with a China focus
March
- Gianmarco Fiorentini, A journey through Japan’s linguistic peripheries
- New mentoring program for researchers in language diversity
- Ingrid Piller, (dis)possession and (un)belonging
February
- Gegentuul Baioud, Minority languages on social media
- Anne Reath Warren, Heritage language education in Australia and Sweden
- Ingrid Piller, Life in a language you are still learning
January
- Alexandra Grey, Linguistic Diversity as a challenge for legal policy
- Sarah Hopkyns, Care, inclusion, and resistance in Covid linguistic landscapes
- Ingrid Piller, Language makes the place

After two years online, it was great to have teaching back in person
Previous annual reports
For an even deeper trip down memory lane, here is the list of our full archives:
- Language on the Move 2021
- Language on the Move 2020
- Language on the Move 2019
- Language on the Move 2018
- Language on the Move 2017
- Language on the Move 2016
- Language on the Move 2015
- Language on the Move 2014
- Language on the Move 2013
- Language on the Move 2012
- Language on the Move 2011
- Language on the Move 2010
- Language on the Move 2009
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