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Sign Language Brokering

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her 2021 book Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing…

Emily PachecoJuly 30, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Multilingual families

Between Deaf and hearing cultures

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with writer and researcher Jessica Kirkness about her 2023 memoir, The House With All The Lights…

Emily PachecoJune 1, 2024

Children in traditional costume at annual Mongolian Festival (Nadaam) in Sydney (Image credit: What’s On)

Multilingual families Next Gen Literacies

How to maintain Mongolian in Australia?

Child at annual Mongolian Festival (Naadam) in Sydney (Image credit: What's On) Maintaining their heritage language is paramount for migrants internationally as language is not just a communication tool. It…

Undarmaa MunkhbayarDecember 11, 2023

Language and migration Next Gen Literacies

如何促进移民的社会融入-基督教会带给我们的启示

For an older English-language version of this post, click here. 教堂的中文标识在悉尼的语言景观中越来越突出在以英语占绝对主体地位的语言环境中这些双语的标识是引人注目的更何况汉语…

Yining WangNovember 23, 2022

Next Gen Literacies

Monolingual school websites as barriers to parent engagement

(Image credit: Markus Spiske via Unsplash) Parental engagement is a critical aspect of student achievement When we think about student achievement, we typically think about student qualities: how smart a…

Ingrid PillerDecember 15, 2021

Language and migration

What can churches teach us about migrant inclusion?

Chinese signage on churches is increasingly prominent in Sydney’s linguistic landscape. These signs are surprising because they are bilingual in a predominantly English monolingual linguistic landscape. They are also surprising…

Ingrid PillerJune 21, 2021

News

Hazara Academic Awards Night

Dr Loy Lising (2nd r.) with members of the SABA collective at the Annual Hazara Academic Awards Night 2021 Editor's note: Members of the Language-on-the-Move research team undertake numerous forms…

Loy LisingMarch 12, 2021

Covid-19

Home schooling in Covid-19: challenges for migrant families

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 to language…

Claire LiveseyDecember 15, 2020

Multilingual families

Whose job is it to raise the kids (bilingually)?

Image credit: Alexander Dummer via Unsplash In the current crisis, when schools and childcare centres may be closed for long periods, many families have to make choices about work and…

Hanna TorshJune 3, 2020

Covid-19 News

Homeschooling during Covid-19: research participants wanted

Image credit: NPR Are you a family who speaks a language other than English at home? Do you have a school-aged child who has been learning from home during the…

Language on the MoveMay 21, 2020

Language in Australia

Holiday treat for language lovers

ABC Radio National has the perfect holiday treat for language lovers: a 5-part podcast series about multilingualism in Australia. In "Tongue-tied and fluent", Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham (who…

Ingrid PillerDecember 23, 2019

Language in education

Bilingual children in preschool

Dr Kerry Taylor-Leech researches early childhood education in an English-Samoan bilingual preschool Early childhood is an important period in the physical, social, emotional, cognitive and linguistic development of a child.…

Ingrid PillerJune 13, 2019

Multilingual families

Secrets of bilingual parenting success

Dr Van Tran, Charles Sturt University, presented this week's Lecture in Linguistic Diversity In Australia almost a quarter of the population speak a language other than English (LOTE) at home…

Ingrid PillerJune 6, 2019

Next Gen Literacies

Creating a multilingual library

In my work with multilingual families, reading in the home language raises its head on so many levels. It is viewed as a shared family activity in a way that…

Sabine LittleNovember 7, 2018

Multilingual families

Hoping to raise bub bilingually?

New Zealand's PM wants to raise her newborn daughter bilingually (Source: radionz) New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, plans to raise her newborn daughter bilingually in Māori and English. Her…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 3, 2018

Language in education

What do migrant parents expect from schools?

Dr Fadila Boutouchent during her guest lecture at Macquarie University When she was in kindergarten, my oldest daughter came home one day talking about "our soldiers" who "went to war for…

Hanna TorshAugust 29, 2018

Sign Language Brokering

How to maintain Mongolian in Australia?

Hazara Academic Awards Night

Home schooling in Covid-19: challenges for migrant families

Whose job is it to raise the kids (bilingually)?

Homeschooling during Covid-19: research participants wanted

Holiday treat for language lovers

Bilingual children in preschool

Secrets of bilingual parenting success

Creating a multilingual library

Hoping to raise bub bilingually?

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