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Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2024

Have you been keeping up with the Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2023? If so, you will be looking forward to our 2024 Reading Challenge; and so here it…

Ingrid PillerDecember 17, 2023

Next Gen Literacies

Studying abroad is amazing, or is it?

Image from a university website “An amazing student experience awaits you!” - “a multicultural vibrant experience” in a “stunning landscape” covered by “year-round sunshine.” These phrases do not come from a…

Agnes BodisMay 27, 2023

News

Event: Multilingual students in monolingual universities

(Image credit: Mana Akbarzadegan via Unsplash) Have you noticed the persistent divide between domestic and international students at Australian universities? Do you worry how the English-monolingual habitus of our highly…

Language on the MoveMarch 27, 2023

English as a global language Next Gen Literacies

How do universities decide whose English needs to be tested for admission?

(Image credit: Mana Akbarzadegan via Unsplash) When Muhammad* applied for admission to a postgraduate degree at an Australian university, he was asked to show evidence of his English language proficiency.…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 6, 2023

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2023

Time flies and it’s time for another Reading Challenge. The annual Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading at the intersection of linguistic diversity and…

Ingrid PillerDecember 26, 2022

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

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

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

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Researching multilingually as a political act

Editor's note: Multilingualism researchers and the products of their research can be surprisingly monolingual. It is therefore good to see the black box of multilingual research processes under the microscope…

Language on the MoveJuly 3, 2022

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

How to challenge Anglocentricity in academic publishing

Top-10 countries producing linguistics research (Source: Scimago Journal & Country Rank) US- and UK-based scholars dominate linguistics Global academic knowledge production is dominated by the Anglosphere. In Linguistics, for example,…

Ingrid PillerMay 11, 2022

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 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

News

Language diversity across generations and contexts

(Image credit: John Schaidler via Unsplash) The Next Generation Literacies international research network hosts a free 2-day research symposium devoted to language diversity and participation across generations and contexts. When:…

Language on the MoveNovember 19, 2021

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

2020 has been a strange year for reading: some of us have had a lot more time for reading, others far less. Regardless whether you’ve been able to indulge or…

Language on the MoveDecember 3, 2020

Covid-19

Supporting ELICOS students through Covid-19

Editor’s note: The language challenges of the COVID-19 crisis have held much of our attention this year. Here on Language on the Move, we have been running a series devoted…

Tazin AbdullahNovember 27, 2020

Covid-19

Does every Australian have an equal chance to know about Covid-19 restrictions?

Readability scores of the two selected public service information texts by the NSW Government This morning I googled “nsw corona/covid restrictions”. The top hits all refer to NSW Government websites,…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 1, 2020

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2024

Event: Multilingual students in monolingual universities

How do universities decide whose English needs to be tested for admission?

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2023

How to balance academic workloads

Accountants as language workers

Language Diversity Symposium 2022

Researching multilingually as a political act

How to challenge Anglocentricity in academic publishing

Publishing is an insiders game

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2022

Language diversity across generations and contexts

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

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