English as a Global Language – Page 2

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

Next Gen Literacies

Esports are the new linguistic and cultural frontier

The heroic EDG esports winning team of League of Legends Chinese esports team Edward Gaming, or EDG for short, has just won the first ever Leagues of Legend (LoL) world…

Li JiaNovember 15, 2021

News

Ideologies of English in Asia

Language on the Move regulars, Jinhyun Cho, Loy Lising, and I have teamed up with a number of early career linguists to produce a special issue of the International Journal…

Alexandra GreySeptember 20, 2021

English as a global language

English, China, and the Olympic Games

The rise of China has been one of the defining characteristics of the early 21st century. The increase in China’s economic, geopolitical, and military clout has been accompanied by a…

Ingrid PillerAugust 20, 2021

Covid-19

Mismatched public health communication costs lives in Pakistan

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…

Kinza Afraz AbbasiDecember 11, 2020

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

How to teach TESOL ethically in an English-dominant world

Carla Chamberlin, Ingrid Piller, and Mak Khan in conversation TESOL and social justice One of the thrusts of my research has been a critical examination of the social consequences of…

Ingrid PillerNovember 19, 2020

Language politics

Brexit and the politics of English

Editor's note: As the world anxiously anticipates the outcome of the US presidential election next week - and the consequences it will have for global politics - we've asked the…

Robert PhillipsonOctober 29, 2020

Foreign language learning for minority empowerment?

LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor’s note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…

Li JiaOctober 23, 2020

Covid-19

Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed language barriers in societies around the world. It has become obvious that the fact of linguistic diversity had not been incorporated systematically into emergency…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 4, 2020

Intercultural communication

Why the linguist needs the historian

Diagram of the ‘radial definition routes’ of Panoptic Conjugation (Ogden 1930: 12) A fascinating turn in recent Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) scholarship is the development of 'Minimal English', an international…

James McElvennyAugust 28, 2020

Language and globalization

Language policy for China-Pakistan cooperation

(Image credit: Farooqi & Aftab, 2018) Editor's note: As Confucius Institutes are closing in western countries, as Jeffrey Gil analysed recently, Chinese language learning continues to expand across the global…

Kashif RazaJuly 20, 2020

Covid-19

How to communicate while working from home

Editor’s note: Working from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic has raised new communication challenges for many. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19…

Pia TenederoJuly 5, 2020

Language at work

Empowerment of Chinese Muslim women through Arabic?

Muslim women praying in a Minquan mosque While everyone knows that China is now the second largest economy in the world, few people realize that there are still over five…

Yuanmeng MaMay 28, 2020

Language and globalization

Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?

Wei Duan introduces herself to a group of Bangladeshi students at Yunnan University As a postgraduate student at Yunnan University in Southwest China, I have been conducting a longitudinal ethnography…

Wei DuanMay 23, 2020

How to challenge Anglocentricity in academic publishing

How I became an Applied Linguist with a China focus

Esports are the new linguistic and cultural frontier

Ideologies of English in Asia

English, China, and the Olympic Games

Brexit and the politics of English

Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis

Why the linguist needs the historian

Language policy for China-Pakistan cooperation

How to communicate while working from home

Empowerment of Chinese Muslim women through Arabic?

Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?

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