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Language learning

Reading ‘Culture Shock’ in Isfahan

In the past three decades attention has shifted from communicative competence to discourse as a frame for understanding the challenges faced by language learners. Yet, the question of how stereotyping…

Vahid ParvareshOctober 12, 2011

Language in education

Let’s reclaim our language!

Corporate double-speak is plummeting to ever lower depths and is insinuating itself into every aspect of our lives. Many see through this sustained assault on our collective intelligence, no doubt.…

Ingrid PillerAugust 21, 2011

Language learning

What is “Competent English”?

“PR” is probably one of the abbreviations I have heard most since coming to Australia. Despite the fact that PR – “permanent residence” for the non-initiated - is the much-coveted…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangAugust 5, 2011

Language and migration

Patriots and traitors

Much of my work in recent years around language learning and migrant settlement has questioned the straightforward link between language learning and settlement success. Policy makers as well as migrants…

Ingrid PillerJune 6, 2011

English as a global language

British Royal Wedding in Iran

Recently, the British royal wedding made international front-page news. It was globally portrayed as an auspicious occasion for the world to remember; much like a well-written fairy-tale. The outcome was record-breaking:…

Vahid ParvareshMay 12, 2011

Can foreign languages drive you crazy?

Richard Lemon Memorial at Lemon Hill, TAS On The Science Show they recently had a program about how unfamiliar sounds, rhythms and tonalities can drive people crazy. I learnt that…

Ingrid PillerMay 6, 2011

Language learning

Behind a name

One’s name is one of the most salient features for one’s identity. Some parents suffer from extraordinary indecisiveness when giving their newborn a wonderfully auspicious and proper name, all with…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangMay 2, 2011

Multilingual histories

Children of ANZAC

My grandfather going to war in 1915 My daughter spent weeks practicing “Advance Australia Fair,” “Eternal Father,” “Victors’ March” and “Waltzing Matilda” for her band’s performance at her school’s ANZAC…

Ingrid PillerApril 29, 2011

Intercultural communication

Japanese on the Move

Thank you all for waiting - we are thrilled to present you with the new-look Language on the Move 3.0! This is the second time we have renewed our site…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江April 6, 2011

Language learning

Not learning English in Sydney

I’ve recently come to Sydney from Taiwan to pursue a PhD in Applied Linguistics under the supervision of Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi. They’ve encouraged me to write up my…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangApril 1, 2011

Intercultural communication

Intercultural rhetoric

MQ VC Prof. Schwartz at the Library Opening Ceremony I was lucky to be able to join the opening ceremony of Macquarie University's new library on 28 March. The event…

Liu Hailin 海林刘March 29, 2011

Muslims, Catholics, foreign language speakers and other traitors

The 2011 Report Freedom of Religion and Belief in 21st Century Australia released this week by the Australian Human Rights Commission notes “high levels of unprompted expressions of concern about…

Ingrid PillerMarch 22, 2011

Language learning

National Languages Curriculum

My daughter attends a public elementary school in NSW where the children are taught French for one hour each week. In 2009, she was away from her school for one…

Ingrid PillerMarch 4, 2011

Language in education

Long-term English language learners

When I first started teaching in Australia, I had a Korean-Australian student in one of my undergraduate classes who sounded like most of the other students in my class, like…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 18, 2011

Reza's well-used Japanese-Persian and English-Persian dictionaries

Multilingual families

A tale of two foreigners in Japan

This is the first in a series of blog posts about my experiences undertaking an ongoing research project. In this series I will be detailing some of the methodological challenges…

Lachlan JacksonDecember 8, 2010

Language at work

Language in the catfish war

Language in the catfish war I’ve just read False Economy and in addition to learning many new intriguing things about economic history, I’ve also learnt that the catfish war, was,…

Ingrid PillerNovember 13, 2010

Reading ‘Culture Shock’ in Isfahan

Let’s reclaim our language!

What is “Competent English”?

Patriots and traitors

British Royal Wedding in Iran

Behind a name

Children of ANZAC

Japanese on the Move

Not learning English in Sydney

Intercultural rhetoric

National Languages Curriculum

A tale of two foreigners in Japan

Language in the catfish war

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