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Covid-19 News

COVID-19 dominates Hamburg International Summer School

21 Masters and PhD students from 9 countries attended the Hamburg International Summer School 2021 devoted to “Language Diversity, Education, and Social Participation” How do train stations across Europe deal…

Language on the MoveSeptember 22, 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

Covid-19

Teaching remotely during COVID-19 in a disadvantaged and multilingual school

We prepared and distributed numerous learning packs 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…

Nusrat ParveenDecember 7, 2020

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Multilingual development over time

Professor Ingrid Gogolin (Image credit: Markus Scholz) ***Update Nov 18, 2019: Due to unforeseen circumstances this lecture has been cancelled.*** On Monday, November 25, we'll host the final Lecture in Linguistic…

Language on the MoveOctober 25, 2019

English as a global language

Reading to learn in another language

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

Next Gen Literacies

Lessons learnt from schoolbooks

My Grade 2 Reader and my primary Song book When I was a child, I eagerly anticipated the start of each new school year. The first week or two were…

Ingrid PillerJuly 28, 2019

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 education

No Child Left Behind: a study in unintended consequences

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

Language politics

Advocating for linguistic diversity

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

Language in education

Fences, language and education

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

Research reflections

In memoriam Hans Reich

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

Language politics

Counting the uncountable: linguistic diversity in Nepal

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

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 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

Multilingual families

Bilingual children refusing to speak the home language

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

Hazara Academic Awards Night

Home schooling in Covid-19: challenges for migrant families

Multilingual development over time

Reading to learn in another language

Lessons learnt from schoolbooks

The Linguistic Legacy of the May 4 Movement

No Child Left Behind: a study in unintended consequences

Fences, language and education

In memoriam Hans Reich

Counting the uncountable: linguistic diversity in Nepal

Bilingual children refusing to speak the home language

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