Language on the Move

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

How to balance academic workloads

Editor’s note: In this reflective post, Dr. Loy Lising shares how she balances the multiple demands placed on academics. As academic workloads have intensified, many feel that the balancing act…

Loy LisingDecember 19, 2022

Intercultural communication Next Gen Literacies

“Baraye” – preposition of the year

Prepositions are the unnoticed and underappreciated workhorses of language. They are "grammar words" that indicate relationships. Essentially, their job is to connect other words with bigger and more important meanings.…

Ingrid PillerDecember 12, 2022

News

Laura Smith-Khan wins Max Crawford Medal

Congratulations to Language-on-the-Move team member Dr Laura Smith-Khan, who is the winner of the 2022 Australian Academy of the Humanities’ Max Crawford Medal! The medal is considered Australia’s most prestigious…

Ingrid PillerNovember 28, 2022

Language and migration Next Gen Literacies

如何促进移民的社会融入-基督教会带给我们的启示

For an older English-language version of this post, click here. 教堂的中文标识在悉尼的语言景观中越来越突出在以英语占绝对主体地位的语言环境中这些双语的标识是引人注目的更何况汉语…

Yining WangNovember 23, 2022

Intercultural communication

Bilingual double vision

Memorial for Kian Pirfalak at Isfahan University (Source: Twitter) In the Name of the God of the Rainbow, let’s today think about bilingual double vision. Double vision is a condition…

Ingrid PillerNovember 21, 2022

Language at work Next Gen Literacies

Accountants as language workers

It is probably the least intuitive way of describing accountants, but these number-crunchers are, in fact, also language workers. This part of their professional identity is largely hidden for at…

Pia TenederoNovember 17, 2022

Next Gen Literacies

Do children notice racism in their favorite radio dramas?

(Image credit: Pexels) Editor’s note: How do children from minoritized backgrounds experience their exclusion from equitable media representation? New research by Adolé Akue-Dovi sheds light on this question from the…

Language on the MoveNovember 14, 2022

News Next Gen Literacies

Language Diversity Symposium 2022

The Next Generation Literacies Network will host its 2022 annual workshop on Zoom over 3 days from Nov 30 to Dec 02 - devoted to translanguaging, data sharing in qualitative…

Language on the MoveNovember 9, 2022

English as a global language Research reflections

What happens when researcher and researched speak different languages?

Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon interviewing unidentified Yanomami people Editor's note: How do researchers in anthropology and sociology deal with linguistic diversity? Do they learn the language(s) of the people they work…

Language on the MoveOctober 31, 2022

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

The world’s top-2% most-cited linguists

The 2022 Stanford list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists has just been released. It includes 335 linguists. So, I've done some quick number crunching to see who they are…

Ingrid PillerOctober 17, 2022

Linguistic landscapes

Mal Lawwal: Linguistic landscapes of Qatar

New documentary explores identity in the linguistic landscape with a focus on Qatar Focusing on official street signs in Qatar written with non-standard Arabic spellings, Mal Lawal explores the complex interplay of…

Rizwan AhmadOctober 11, 2022

Language and globalization Next Gen Literacies

“Women, life, freedom” – the slogan swimming against the global tide

"Jin, Jiyan, Azadi" banner displayed by Bayern Munich soccer fans (Image credit: Archie Rhind-Tutt) Some recent images from around the globe: protest rally in Rome with a banner featuring the…

Ingrid PillerOctober 4, 2022

English as a global language Language and globalization

What’s next for the Queen’s English?

Official coronation portrait (Image credit: Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2015) The Queen and the English language are both unique within their categories. The Queen enjoyed special…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 12, 2022

Next Gen Literacies

Language Barriers to Social Participation

When Yu Qi (not her real name) discovered her son was falling behind in school, she had no way of finding out why or how she could support him. After…

Ingrid PillerAugust 26, 2022

Language and migration Language in Australia Next Gen Literacies

A Tamil Hindu Temple in Australia

The South Asian presence in colonised Australia is on the rise. I say colonised Australia because, in discussing linguistic diversity in this country, I acknowledge the diverse Aboriginal and Torres…

Niru PereraAugust 22, 2022