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Linguistic landscapes

Japanese in Bangkok

Billboard advertising the Japanese food fair at Isetan I’ve never felt more welcome in a foreign city than where I am at the moment – Bangkok! It has to do…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江February 9, 2011

English as a global language

انگلیسی، آن نا-زبان

Persian version of my blog post about English as the non-language of globalization. Translated by Niloufar Behrooz (نیلوفر بهروز) (نوشتار شماره ٢ در مجموعه نوشتار های کوتاه درباره ی…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 7, 2011

Game Over!

Like many I’ve had my eyes on the protests in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world over the past couple of days. The way angry young men and women…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 31, 2011

Language learning

Language learning and height

Are you tall enough to learn English? Have you ever reflected on the relationship between height and language learning? Well, I haven’t, and I’ve been in language teaching and learning…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 28, 2011

Linguistic landscapes

The world in Arabia

The world in Arabia I spent my last day in the Middle East at Dubai Mall, the self-proclaimed “Centre of Now.” The mall guide has the heading “Welcome to Everything.”…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 21, 2011

Linguistic landscapes

During my recent lecture about “Teaching language, teaching culture” at the Fujairah Women’s College, I spoke about English language teaching materials in Japan and the ways in which they constructed…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 15, 2011

Language and globalization

Who’s inward-looking?

Yoshiko Nakano's essay in Yomiuri Newspaper “Young people in Japan no longer want to go abroad.” This news reached me in Australia last year and formed part of the background…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江January 11, 2011

Language and tourism

English in Iran

Even a casual observer of the linguistic landscape in Iran will have to conclude that Iranians have a collective fetish for English. Almost all public signage is bilingual in English…

Ingrid PillerDecember 30, 2010

Reza's well-used Japanese-Persian and English-Persian dictionaries

Multilingual families

A tale of two foreigners in Japan

This is the first in a series of blog posts about my experiences undertaking an ongoing research project. In this series I will be detailing some of the methodological challenges…

Lachlan JacksonDecember 8, 2010

English as a global language

Happy birthday, UAE!

The United Arab Emirates are celebrating their 39th national day this month. Trucial Oman, as it was then known, became independent from their semi-colonial relationship with Britain in December 1971…

Ingrid PillerDecember 5, 2010

Next Gen Literacies

Multiculturalism alive and well in Austria

I love public libraries. Here in Sydney, our family regularly spends time in our local public library and in the Persian library in Parramatta. We treat public libraries a bit…

Ingrid PillerNovember 24, 2010

Multilingual histories

Providing bilingual education since 1689

Commemorative stamp, German Federal Post, 1989: 300 years French School Berlin I’ve been teaching about bilingualism for more than a decade and when I speak about bilingual education and dual-immersion…

Ingrid PillerOctober 26, 2010

Linguistic landscapes

جادوی انگلیسی

Persian version of my recent blog post about the magic of English Translated by Behnam Keimasi (بهنام کیماسی) در چند هفته ی آینده دانشجویان من در درس مبانیِ جامعه…

Ingrid PillerOctober 24, 2010

Intercultural communication

What did Angela Merkel really say?

If you read English-language news, you could be forgiven for thinking that Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel recently came out strongly against multiculturalism and immigration. You could be forgiven, but you'd…

Ingrid PillerOctober 20, 2010

Linguistic landscapes

Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual

Space challenged Shinjuku, Tokyo (September 2010): Photo by Kimie Takahashi Tokyo is getting more and more linguistically diverse every time I go back there. During this trip, I was really…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 15, 2010

Intercultural communication

Insult and injury in Ueno Park

Lotus Pond (part of Shinobazu Pond) in Ueno Park “There are so many stupid Japanese women around, huh? Many Westerners are coming to our country and the stupid women love…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 11, 2010

Japanese in Bangkok

انگلیسی، آن نا-زبان

Language learning and height

The world in Arabia

Japan in Arabia

Who’s inward-looking?

English in Iran

A tale of two foreigners in Japan

Happy birthday, UAE!

Providing bilingual education since 1689

جادوی انگلیسی

What did Angela Merkel really say?

Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual

Insult and injury in Ueno Park

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