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?4U: Is Twitter killing the English language?

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Language on the MoveAugust 4, 2018

Next Gen Literacies

Why do female academics publish less than their male peers?

Participation and success rate of Chief Investigators in ARC Discovery Projects 2018 by gender and career age (Source: ARC) Tomorrow is International Women’s Day and we will therefore look at…

Ingrid PillerMarch 7, 2018

Language in education

Schooling challenges of multilingual children

Colours of the alphabet February 21 is International Mother Language Day and serves as an opportunity to discuss and promote the use of first-language medium education. The United Nations Educational,…

Laura Smith-KhanFebruary 21, 2018

Next Gen Literacies

Happy Hangul Day!

King Sejong the Great (1397-1450) (Image source: Wikipedia) Today, South Koreans celebrate Hangul Day. Hangul Day is a national holiday to celebrate the Korean script. I am not aware of…

Ingrid PillerOctober 9, 2017

Language in education

Why does English spread in global academia?

The Linguistic Ethnography Forum’s e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s recent book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics is currently running. Some discussions so far are concerned…

Jinhyun ChoJune 5, 2016

Language in education

Sink-or-swim for international students

For international students, it's sink or swim (Image source: luvimages.com) It is one of the basic findings of decades of research in bilingual education that language submersion is not a…

Ingrid PillerAugust 6, 2014

Research reflections

Saussure, the procrastinator

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) Procrastination is a fact of academic life, particularly during the PhD period, as every academic supervisor knows. However, judging from ever-increasing institutional efforts to control procrastination…

Ingrid PillerOctober 30, 2013

Next Gen Literacies

Losing voice in academic writing

Losing your voice or learning academic writing? (Source: business2community.com) “A latent function of the educational system is to instil linguistic insecurity, to discriminate linguistically, to channel children in ways that…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangNovember 13, 2012

The final seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics

News

Academic criticism

Academic criticism (Source: pbworks.com) The final seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held on Tuesday, October 30: Academic criticism: the myth of impersonality When:…

Lg_on_the_moveOctober 22, 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

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

Research reflections

The paradoxes of difference

Salvador Dali, Gestalt As members of the Language-on-the-Move community know, I was the lucky guest of Ingrid at Macquarie last Wednesday and then the theme of her blog posting. As a…

Bob HodgeJune 21, 2012

Research reflections

The promise of interdisciplinarity

Professor Bob Hodge When I was a PhD student, I read two books in Discourse Analysis, which were to become fundamental to my understanding of the field, namely Social Semiotics…

Ingrid PillerJune 14, 2012

Next Gen Literacies

Swimming against the global linguistic tide

I’m one of the comparatively unlucky few swimming against the global linguistic tide. I’m a mother tongue speaker of English, “the” global language. That means if I want to become…

Christof Demont-HeinrichApril 3, 2012

English as a global language

English belongs to everyone?

English belongs to everyone? The claim that “English belongs to everyone who uses it” has continued to gain more and more cultural cache, at least in global (English) academic circles.…

Christof Demont-HeinrichMarch 26, 2012

Language and globalization

Does internationalization change research content?

Source: Kang 2009, p. 201 Every linguistics undergraduate student is by now familiar with the fact of linguistic imperialism in academic publishing where the pressure to publish in international journals…

Ingrid PillerAugust 26, 2011

Why do female academics publish less than their male peers?

Schooling challenges of multilingual children

Why does English spread in global academia?

Sink-or-swim for international students

Saussure, the procrastinator

Losing voice in academic writing

Academic criticism

Books available for review

Schools transforming multilinguals into illiterates?

The paradoxes of difference

The promise of interdisciplinarity

Swimming against the global linguistic tide

English belongs to everyone?

Does internationalization change research content?

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