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Language in education

Will education reform wipe out Mongolian language and culture?

A herder guards the Mongolian script (Image credit: Ayin) As the danger of life-threatening Covid-19 has subsided, Mongols in Inner Mongolia, a region of northern China, have faced a new…

Gegentuul BaioudAugust 30, 2020

Covid-19

What does the post-COVID-19 future hold for Confucius Institutes?

Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a major shift in global linguistic and cultural flows. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Jeffrey…

Jeffrey GilJuly 10, 2020

Language at work

Empowerment of Chinese Muslim women through Arabic?

Muslim women praying in a Minquan mosque While everyone knows that China is now the second largest economy in the world, few people realize that there are still over five…

Yuanmeng MaMay 28, 2020

Language and globalization

Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?

Wei Duan introduces herself to a group of Bangladeshi students at Yunnan University As a postgraduate student at Yunnan University in Southwest China, I have been conducting a longitudinal ethnography…

Wei DuanMay 23, 2020

Covid-19

Coronavirus meets linguistic diversity

Before celebrating China’s Spring Festival, my husband and I were talking about new sources of local economic growth thanks to President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tengchong right after his first…

Li JiaMarch 4, 2020

Next Gen Literacies

The Linguistic Legacy of the May 4 Movement

Students of Beijing Normal University who were part of the May Fourth Movement (Image credit: Wikipedia) This month marks the 100th anniversary of China’s May 4 Movement. This intellectual and…

Jeffrey GilMay 29, 2019

Language in Australia

Australians speaking Asian

“Fremdschämen” is a German word that means being embarrassed on behalf of someone else. In Australia, this feeling is frequently induced by the behavior of our politicians. Yesterday, public embarrassment…

Ingrid PillerApril 14, 2019

Intercultural communication

Intercultural communication at work: Poles in China

Poland in China (Artwork by the author) Intercultural communication at work in multinational companies (MNCs) is increasingly common. Workplace communication in MNCs can be highly complex, as is the case…

Michał WilczewskiFebruary 16, 2019

Are debates over linguistic rights erasing diversity?

A restaurant sign featuring both Tibetan and Chinese, in a village where the Tibetan residents speak Ngandehua, one of Tibet's minority languages (Image: Gerald Roche) As elsewhere in High Asia,…

Gerald RocheNovember 19, 2018

Language in Australia

Being Chinese in Australia

Passport photos of early Chinese immigrants (Source: Invisible Australians) For most Chinese migrants, China is what they call home. China is the basis on which they establish a sense…

Yining WangSeptember 24, 2018

Language and globalization

Is English stealing the home of Mongolian?

The website of Hohhot Baita International Airport provides information in Chinese and English but not in Mongolian Update, Sept 16, 2020: A Mongolian translation of this blog post is now…

Gegentuul BaioudApril 18, 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

Explorations in language shaming

At the recent 16th International Conference on Minority Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, I delivered a keynote lecture about “language shaming”. By “language shaming”, I mean (social) media…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 28, 2017

Language in education

Educating Burmese migrant students in China

Dr Li Jia (4th from right) with her supervisor, Professor Ingrid Piller, and members of the Language-on-the-Move team The Language on the Move team is proud to celebrate another PhD…

Lg_on_the_moveSeptember 22, 2017

Language and globalization

Fighting for ‘pure’ Mongolian

Image of dictionary burning circulating on social media On New Year’s Eve, when many people around the world were excited about firework shows, a group of Mongols in remote Inner…

Gegentuul BaioudApril 10, 2017

News

Following the China Dream

"Learn Chinese, Double Your World": Promotion of Chinese as a global language Research seminar about the language learning experiences of Burmese high school students in China Topic: Following the China…

Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 10, 2017

What does the post-COVID-19 future hold for Confucius Institutes?

Empowerment of Chinese Muslim women through Arabic?

Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?

Coronavirus meets linguistic diversity

The Linguistic Legacy of the May 4 Movement

Australians speaking Asian

Intercultural communication at work: Poles in China

Being Chinese in Australia

Fighting for ‘pure’ Mongolian

Following the China Dream

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