Language on the Move

News

Bilingual couples wanted

Bilingual Sydney-based couples wanted for research participation Researchers at Macquarie University are looking for bilingual couples and families to volunteer for a study on language, identity and culture. We are…

Hanna TorshAugust 17, 2012

Rising multicultural middle class

Plaque commemorating the work of migrants in the construction of the Mundaring Weir In response to my blog post about the disparity between educational qualifications and employment outcomes faced by…

Ingrid PillerAugust 15, 2012

News

Books available for review

Books available for review in Discourse & Society The titles listed below are currently available for review in Discourse and Society. If you wish to volunteer to serve as a…

Ingrid PillerAugust 13, 2012

Human capital on the move

Average employment outcomes of the tertiary-educated (Source: Colic-Peisker 2011, p. 647) The labour market integration of migrants presents a persistent conundrum. The Australian story – as that of other migrant…

Ingrid PillerAugust 10, 2012

Multilingual families

English dominates at German camp in USA

Eierlaufen (egg-and-spoon race) at German Camp, USA My two daughters – whom my wife and I are raising as English-German bilinguals in the USA – have been going to German…

Christof Demont-HeinrichAugust 7, 2012

News

Deep Roots for a Big Linguistics

Six blind men set out to discover the nature of an elephant The next seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held on…

Lg_on_the_moveAugust 4, 2012

English as a global language

Race to teach English

Underneath the zipped Asian face a Western face emerges: an English school's ad in Bangkok (unrelated to the school in the blog post). Photo by Olan Sawangnuwatkul Thailand is seeing…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江August 1, 2012

News

Michael Clyne Prize 2012

Dr Butorac (middle) and her supervisors, Prof Piller and Dr Takahashi The Language-on-the-Move team is delighted that the 2012 Michael Clyne Prize has been awarded to one of our supervision group, Dr…

Lg_on_the_moveJuly 30, 2012

Language learning

The power of Esperanto

Herzberg am Harz, the Esperanto City (Source: Der Spiegel) The rural Bavarian high school I attended in the late 70s and early 80s had two international exchanges going, one with…

Ingrid PillerJuly 26, 2012

Language and migration

Home is where I’m alienated*

Pakistani flour mill workers recovering from a near-fatal lung infection due to poor occupational health and safety conditions, West Ham Hospital, 1960s (Source: Qureshi 2012, p. 7) To be transnational…

Ingrid PillerJuly 24, 2012

Language learning

Multilingual Europe

Percentage of Europeans who speak three or more languages (2012 Eurobarometer 'Europeans and their Languages', p. 14) The 2012 Eurobarometer Report “Europeans and their languages” was published last month and…

Ingrid PillerJuly 18, 2012

Language learning

Schools transforming multilinguals into illiterates?

Mehrsprachige Buecher - multilingual books - ketabhaye chand zabane The release of the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011 Census of Population data is an invitation to reflect on the composition…

Susana EisenchlasJuly 13, 2012

News

Open letter from academics regarding asylum seekers and refugees

SIEV X (SIEV=Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel) (Source: eurekastreet.com.au) Message from Anne Pedersen and Caroline Fleay We are refugee advocates and academics working in the field of asylum seekers. We are…

Ingrid PillerJuly 11, 2012

Intercultural communication

No translation

Eatery on Kat Hing St, Wuhan, site of Chi Li's Life Show (Source: city.ifeng.com) I am very much looking forward to attending the Intercultural Literacy, Communication, and Competence in the…

Ingrid PillerJuly 10, 2012

English as a global language

Italy in Karachi

Pompei Restaurant, Karachi (Source: fcpakistan.com) A few days ago I had an Alice-in-Wonderland experience. Having lived all my life in Karachi, I had until then never heard of the Pompei…

Muhammad Ali KhanJuly 6, 2012

Language learning

Monolingual media beat-up

Saul Tello Jr., Orestimba High Valedictorian 2012 (Source: CBS Sacramento) When US high schools make international headlines, it’s usually because of a school shooting. But Orestimba High in Newman, a…

Ingrid PillerJuly 4, 2012