Language on the Move

Research reflections

Are funding decisions based on “societal impact” ethical?

Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…

Taina SaarinenJune 24, 2020

Research reflections

Do concepts and methods have ethics?

Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…

Petteri LaihonenJune 18, 2020

Covid-19

Why it’s important to use Indigenous languages in health communication

Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the persistent health disadvantage of Indigenous populations into focus, as well as the exclusion of Indigenous languages from public health communication. In this…

Gregory Haimovich and Herlinda Márquez MoraJune 9, 2020

Multilingual families

Whose job is it to raise the kids (bilingually)?

Image credit: Alexander Dummer via Unsplash In the current crisis, when schools and childcare centres may be closed for long periods, many families have to make choices about work and…

Hanna TorshJune 3, 2020

Covid-19

How to improve Australia’s public health messaging about Covid-19

Exterior of a pub at an intersection in the shopping hub of Burwood, a highly diverse suburb of Sydney Editor’s note: Do public health messages about the Covid-19 pandemic match…

Alexandra GreyJune 1, 2020

Language at work

Empowerment of Chinese Muslim women through Arabic?

Muslim women praying in a Minquan mosque While everyone knows that China is now the second largest economy in the world, few people realize that there are still over five…

Yuanmeng MaMay 28, 2020

Covid-19

Recent-arrival migrant students during the Covid-19 school closures

Elisabeth Barakos and Simone Plöger, University of Hamburg *** Editor’s note: Learning from home is hard enough but what if you are simultaneously learning the language of instruction? In this…

Language on the MoveMay 25, 2020

Language and globalization

Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?

Wei Duan introduces herself to a group of Bangladeshi students at Yunnan University As a postgraduate student at Yunnan University in Southwest China, I have been conducting a longitudinal ethnography…

Wei DuanMay 23, 2020

Covid-19 News

Homeschooling during Covid-19: research participants wanted

Image credit: NPR Are you a family who speaks a language other than English at home? Do you have a school-aged child who has been learning from home during the…

Language on the MoveMay 21, 2020

Covid-19

Signs of the times: Small media during Covid-19 in Mexico City

Editor’s note: In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Judy Kalman takes us on a tour of the Covid-19 linguistic landscape of Mexico City.…

Judy KalmanMay 14, 2020

Covid-19

Staring down the Covid-19 lockdown with multilingual humor

Sue Ollerhead, Lecturer (Languages Education), Macquarie University, Australia Shepi Mati: Lecturer (Radio) Rhodes University, South Africa Monica Hendricks: Director: Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, South…

Language on the MoveMay 12, 2020

Language and law

Five language myths about refugee credibility

In a world where public debates about refugees and asylum seekers often focus on whether they are telling the truth, it should probably come as no surprise that government processes…

Laura Smith-KhanMay 6, 2020

Covid-19

Covid-19 forces us to take linguistic diversity seriously

This article was originally published in the digital pamphlet Perspectives on the Pandemic: International Social Science Thought Leaders Reflect on Covid-19 produced by de Gruyter Social Sciences. *** The Covid-19…

Ingrid PillerMay 3, 2020

Covid-19

Language challenges of Covid-19 are a pressing issue

In mid-March, we issued a call for papers for a special issue of the international sociolinguistics journal Multilingua devoted to “Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on Covid-19” edited…

Ingrid PillerApril 24, 2020

Covid-19

Multilingual resources key to fighting COVID-19

Multilingualism - the use of two or more languages within a polity - is often seen by governments as an impediment, if not a threat, to nation-building and national identity.…

Rizwan AhmadApril 14, 2020

Covid-19

How are language service providers affected by COVID-19?

Lifei Wang, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University Jiangwei Sun, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University Jie Ren, School of Translation and…

Language on the MoveApril 1, 2020

Are funding decisions based on “societal impact” ethical?

Do concepts and methods have ethics?

Why it’s important to use Indigenous languages in health communication

Whose job is it to raise the kids (bilingually)?

How to improve Australia’s public health messaging about Covid-19

Empowerment of Chinese Muslim women through Arabic?

Recent-arrival migrant students during the Covid-19 school closures

Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?

Homeschooling during Covid-19: research participants wanted

Signs of the times: Small media during Covid-19 in Mexico City

Five language myths about refugee credibility

Language challenges of Covid-19 are a pressing issue

Multilingual resources key to fighting COVID-19

How are language service providers affected by COVID-19?

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