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
In this library, children like to "cook the books" in the toy oven (Source: Smith, 2017) In preparation for a course on “Literacies” I’m teaching this semester, I spent the…
Ingrid PillerJuly 31, 2017
NAIDOC Week 2017 Logo Every year, the first week of July marks NAIDOC Week - a time to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and recognise the achievements of…
Britt JacobsenJuly 3, 2017
Alexandra Grey proudly holding the physical product of her PhD research My university will shortly require only a digital copy of each PhD after it has been examined and awarded,…
Alexandra GreyJune 8, 2017
Intercultural communication advice is a strange genre. Filling shelves and shelves in bookshops and libraries and now with a well-established presence on the Internet and in training workshops, it portrays…
Ingrid PillerMay 12, 2017
Presenters and members of the organizing team at the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium Last week the Language-on-the-Move team at Macquarie University was fortunate to host a delegation of education researchers…
Ingrid PillerMarch 27, 2017
Our visitors from Hamburg University are getting ready to travel 16,295 km to Sydney for the 'Bridging Language Barriers' Symposium The count-down for the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium at Macquarie University…
Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 23, 2017
A pdf version of the "Bridging Language Barriers" program is available here. ***Update, Feb 23: Abstracts now available here*** A one-day symposium at Macquarie University asks how language barriers…
Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 16, 2017
Feb 16, 2017: ***Program update now available here*** Despite their commitment to diversity and equality of access, contemporary multicultural societies and their institutions struggle to find effective ways to overcome…
Lg_on_the_moveDecember 16, 2016
Cover of 2008 movie "Mad about English" (Source: Zhang, Jie. Language policy and planning for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. ) We are repeatedly told that people around the world are…
Peter IvesOctober 11, 2016
ESL teachers play an important role in home language maintenance (Image Credit: Macquarie University) Learning the host country’s language is important for migrants but we should not forget that maintaining…
Agnes BodisSeptember 21, 2016
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
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