A non-fluent Latin reader painstakingly worked her way through this text “Man is an obligate aerobe”, I recently read in a medicine book for general readers (Nuland, 1993). The phrase…
Ingrid PillerAugust 11, 2019
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
President George W. Bush signs the "No Child Left Behind" act in 2002 (Image credit: Wikipedia) In 2001, the United States government responded to the apparent lack of quality education…
Emily McKinneyMay 23, 2019
Linguistic diversity is a demographic reality, as Dr Alexandra Grey pointed out in her presentation This week, Professor Lisa Lim and her colleagues from Sydney University’ School of Languages and Cultures…
Ingrid PillerMay 17, 2019
Building the Danish boar fence (Image credit: NDR) Fences are popular these days: not only in the US with its border-wall-to-Mexico saga but also in Denmark, which recently started to…
Martha Sif KarrebækMay 10, 2019
Prof. Hans H. Reich (1939-2019) The educator Professor Hans H. Reich, who pioneered education-and-migration-related research in Germany, passed away on the 19th of February 2019. The obituary below was first…
Language on the MoveMarch 14, 2019
Students in a Tibetan-medium school in Kathmandu study for their exams. By knowing the number and age of speakers of a particular language, policy makers can better plan for their…
Naomi FillmoreFebruary 26, 2019
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
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
Dr Sabine Little during her guest lecture at Macquarie University When my daughter was five years old, she one day solemnly informed me that, from now on, she was no…
Ingrid PillerAugust 15, 2018
Click on this image to view video about the role of English and local languages in the educational experiences of Aboriginal children in remote communities Editor's Note: March 21 is…
Brendan KavanaghMarch 19, 2018
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
The award will enable language and education researchers from Hamburg and Macquarie Universities to deepen their collaboration Ingrid Piller is one of eight recipients of a 2018 Anneliese Maier Research…
Lg_on_the_moveJanuary 31, 2018
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
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
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