English as a Global Language – Language on the Move

Chats in Linguistic Diversity English as a global language

Educational inequality in Fijian higher education

In this episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar, an academic based in the Graduate Research School at the University of New England,…

Hanna TorshFebruary 25, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity English as a global language

English ideologies in Korea

Did you know that the US is referred to as "Beautiful Country" in Korean? Or that different ways of speaking English index different class positions? Or that English has become…

Brynn QuickSeptember 8, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity English as a global language

The Rise of English

In Episode 17 of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Rosemary Salomone about her 2021 book The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of…

Ingrid PillerMay 21, 2024

Language learning Next Gen Literacies

Why is it so hard for English teachers to learn Japanese?

A chapter by this site’s founders set me off on a path to doing a Ph.D. and made me re-evaluate my linguistic practises and my position as an English teacher…

Owen MinnsMay 1, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity English as a global language

Making Sense of “Bad English”

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of…

Brynn QuickApril 13, 2024

Linguistic landscapes Next Gen Literacies

Seeing the linguistic landscape through the eyes of Barbie and Ken

Figure 1: Multilingual sign in Abu Dhabi with power disparities indicated through order and size of text In the critically acclaimed Barbie movie, released in cinemas in mid-2023, Barbie and…

Sarah HopkynsDecember 8, 2023

Language and globalization Next Gen Literacies

Hallyu and Korean language learning

LI, Jia & HE, Bin, Yunnan University *** ‘The Glory’, a Korean drama, has ranked the top among the ten most watched TV and films since its release on March…

Li JiaApril 17, 2023

Language and globalization Next Gen Literacies

Lent, Language, and Faith Work

Multilingual responses are common during the special liturgies of Lent Many people celebrated Easter with chocolate bunny treats and by enjoying the long weekend. But not as many know the…

Pia TenederoApril 12, 2023

Language and migration Research reflections

Scholarly sisterhood: Collaboration is our academic superpower

Editor’s note: Regular readers of Language on the Move will have noticed that we have been very quiet for the past two months. This is because some core team members…

Language on the MoveMarch 7, 2023

Language at work Next Gen Literacies

Accountants as language workers

It is probably the least intuitive way of describing accountants, but these number-crunchers are, in fact, also language workers. This part of their professional identity is largely hidden for at…

Pia TenederoNovember 17, 2022

English as a global language Research reflections

What happens when researcher and researched speak different languages?

Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon interviewing unidentified Yanomami people Editor's note: How do researchers in anthropology and sociology deal with linguistic diversity? Do they learn the language(s) of the people they work…

Language on the MoveOctober 31, 2022

Language and globalization Next Gen Literacies

“Women, life, freedom” – the slogan swimming against the global tide

"Jin, Jiyan, Azadi" banner displayed by Bayern Munich soccer fans (Image credit: Archie Rhind-Tutt) Some recent images from around the globe: protest rally in Rome with a banner featuring the…

Ingrid PillerOctober 4, 2022

English as a global language Language and globalization

What’s next for the Queen’s English?

Official coronation portrait (Image credit: Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2015) The Queen and the English language are both unique within their categories. The Queen enjoyed special…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 12, 2022

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

How to challenge Anglocentricity in academic publishing

Top-10 countries producing linguistics research (Source: Scimago Journal & Country Rank) US- and UK-based scholars dominate linguistics Global academic knowledge production is dominated by the Anglosphere. In Linguistics, for example,…

Ingrid PillerMay 11, 2022

Intercultural communication Next Gen Literacies

Global Coalition for Language Rights

This post has been authored by Gerald Roche and Claire French *** Adéṣínà Ayẹni to Gerald Roche (2 Feb 2022): I will surely love to be a part of the…

Gerald RocheApril 29, 2022

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

How I became an Applied Linguist with a China focus

Applied linguistics is the study of language-based problems in the world, or as Brumfit (1997) puts it, “the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is a…

Jeffrey GilApril 11, 2022

Educational inequality in Fijian higher education

English ideologies in Korea

The Rise of English

Why is it so hard for English teachers to learn Japanese?

Making Sense of “Bad English”

Seeing the linguistic landscape through the eyes of Barbie and Ken

Lent, Language, and Faith Work

Scholarly sisterhood: Collaboration is our academic superpower

Accountants as language workers

What happens when researcher and researched speak different languages?

“Women, life, freedom” – the slogan swimming against the global tide

What’s next for the Queen’s English?

How to challenge Anglocentricity in academic publishing

How I became an Applied Linguist with a China focus

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