Belgium – Language on the Move

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

Language policy at an abortion clinic

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Ella van Hest (Ghent University, Belgium) about her ethnographic research related to language diversity at an…

Brynn QuickJuly 5, 2024

Language and migration

Asylum interviews as linguistic conflict zones

Professor Katrijn Maryns explains the linguistic transformations that turn "undocumented migrants" into "genuine" or "bogus refugees" Language is the inescapable medium through which we live our lives. Access to social…

Ingrid PillerApril 8, 2019

Language in education

Do monolingual teachers produce a Golem effect in multilingual students?

Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher expectations result in students’ lower academic performance. The positive effect…

Ingrid PillerMay 11, 2016

Asylum interviews as linguistic conflict zones

Do monolingual teachers produce a Golem effect in multilingual students?

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