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Communicating passion for fashion

Mariko Watanabe and Ingrid Piller celebrate their reunion at Yaccomaricard in Chit Lom This post is also available in pdf-format. Click here. In early July, YM Fashion’s CEO Mariko Watanabe…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 11, 2013

English as a global language

English Gangnam Style

Panel devoted to Jeju Global Education City (Source: Jeju Weekly) Now that Psy’s “Gangnam Style” has become a global hit, I wonder if you know what Gangnam is? The dictionary…

Jinhyun ChoSeptember 26, 2013

Intercultural communication

Polish refugee section of the Catholic cemetery in Tehran When Kimie Takahashi and myself interviewed participants for Japanese on the Move, our video exhibition of transnational life-stories, one of our…

Ingrid PillerJune 3, 2013

Migrant children studying in a Brazilian school in Japan (Source: Japan Times)

Language in education

Educational outcomes of migrant children

Migrant children studying in a Brazilian school in Japan (Source: Japan Times) A recent study of the educational pathways of the children of Brazilian migrants in Japan offers a most…

Ingrid PillerMay 28, 2013

Promoting the University of Bolton's Ras Al-Khaimah branch campus on the streets of Ajman

English as a global language

Banal nationalism and the internationalization of higher education

Promoting the University of Bolton's Ras Al-Khaimah branch campus on the streets of Ajman The other day I was stuck in traffic in Ajman, one of the smaller of the…

Ingrid PillerMay 22, 2013

English as a global language

Internationalization and Englishization in Higher Education

University rankings drive the Englishization of global academia The Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics is hosting a seminar at Newcastle University next week…

Ingrid PillerMay 9, 2013

Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual Macau

The front cover of the tourist map of multilingual Macau Last week I had the privilege of visiting the University of Macau and in Macau I discovered yet another unique…

Ingrid PillerApril 22, 2013

Linguistic landscapes

Linguistic theory in Dubai

Is this Arabic or English? Or is that asking the wrong question? (Transliteration: sbaisi tinisi tshikn and shrmb*) I’ve often wondered what linguistic theory would look like if its foundations…

Ingrid PillerApril 17, 2013

English as a global language

Multilingual provision is cheaper than English-Only

Hiroshi Mikitani, Englishnization in Marketplace 3.0 (Source: gettyimages.co.uk) The business and self-help section of my local Kinokuniya bookstore is currently featuring shelves and shelves of Marketplace 3.0: Rewriting the rules…

Ingrid PillerApril 4, 2013

Language learning

Teachers Against Discrimination in Taiwan

TADIT - Teachers Against Discrimination in Taiwan Imagine yourself on the shores of your ancestral homeland, where your parents and grandparents grew up, where the stories you heard as a…

Andrew BuntingApril 2, 2013

Intercultural communication

Exclusion on campus

If you google images for "study abroad," you get many pictures of inclusive-looking racially-diverse groups of people such as this one. A persistent theme in research with international students in…

Ingrid PillerMarch 19, 2013

Language learning

English-teaching superstars

Star teacher Ruby Hsu (Source: ruby.com.tw) The global English language learning boom has resulted not only in a huge number of English learners but also created a tremendous demand for…

Jackie ChangFebruary 26, 2013

Language at work

Grassroots multilingualism

Africa Town, Guangzhou (Source: ChinaSmack) What does an urban middle-class male university graduate from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, have in common with a peasant woman with little education from…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 19, 2013

Intercultural communication

To English with Love

Kimie Takahashi (2013) Language learning, gender and desire: Japanese women on the move. Multilingual Matters. It’s Valentine’s Day today. Valentine’s Day is a truly global event inextricably linking the emotional…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 14, 2013

English as a global language

Marketing English as the global language

"美語是通往世界最近的路" (American English, for children, is the royal road to the world): An English educator promises the world Taiwan is enthralled with learning American English. One of the reasons for…

Jackie ChangFebruary 8, 2013

Intercultural communication Language learning

Where are you from?

The Adelaide delegation at this year's Esperanto conference. Indrani is in the front right. When we meet new people we often ask straight away: where are you from? For many…

Nicole ElseFebruary 6, 2013

Communicating passion for fashion

English Gangnam Style

Polish cemetery in Tehran

Banal nationalism and the internationalization of higher education

Internationalization and Englishization in Higher Education

Multilingual Macau

Linguistic theory in Dubai

English-teaching superstars

Grassroots multilingualism

To English with Love

Marketing English as the global language

Where are you from?

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