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Next Gen Literacies

Automating silence?

Mia Wallace (Image credit: Wikipedia) In Quentin Tarantino’s blockbuster Pulp Fiction, Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) asks Vincent Vega (John Travolta) whether he hates uncomfortable silences. Mia ponders ‘Why is it…

Celeste Rodriguez LouroFebruary 3, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language in education

Why teachers turn to AI

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Sue Ollerhead about an article that Sue has recently written for the Australian Association for Research in Education…

Brynn QuickJanuary 9, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Multilingual families

Living Together Across Borders

How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, I…

Hanna TorshOctober 7, 2024

News

CfP: Conceptual and methodological challenges in linguistic inclusion

We are looking for contributors to a workshop about “Conceptual and methodological challenges in linguistic inclusion.” When: Thursday, December 14, 2023, full day Where: Macquarie University Keynote speakers: Dr Alexandra…

Language on the MoveOctober 30, 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

Covid-19

Home schooling in Covid-19: challenges for migrant families

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…

Claire LiveseyDecember 15, 2020

Covid-19

Teaching remotely during COVID-19 in a disadvantaged and multilingual school

We prepared and distributed numerous learning packs 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…

Nusrat ParveenDecember 7, 2020

Multilingual histories

Is English spelling an insult to human intelligence?

One of countless internet memes about crazy English spelling (Source: angmohdan.com) During a dreary German winter in the 1980s, I would get up early each Friday morning, wrap myself up…

Ingrid PillerAugust 10, 2020

Next Gen Literacies

Why are academic lectures so weird?

My "audience" as I was recording the first online lecture for the new term Yesterday, I spent six hours pre-recording a puny little lecture of 15 minutes for the postgraduate…

Ingrid PillerJuly 27, 2020

Covid-19

Language lessons of COVID-19 and linguistic disaster preparedness

Li Yuming Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and Research Center for Standardized Use of Chinese Language, Beijing Language and Culture University *** Editor’s note: This is a translated…

Language on the MoveMarch 27, 2020

Next Gen Literacies

What can you do so that your device doesn’t make you stupid?

(Image credit: Psychology Today) Device use is a major contemporary education challenge for parents and teachers alike. In our family, we have fairly strict rules around the use of internet-connected…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 7, 2019

Next Gen Literacies

?4U: Is Twitter killing the English language?

This story was authored by Antra Kalnins and first published at Macquarie University's The Lighthouse. It is reproduced here with permission. *** If the question in the headline makes you…

Language on the MoveAugust 4, 2018

Language and globalization

Virtually multilingual

English is the mother tongue of the Internet, or so it seems. English is omnipresent in the architecture of this breakthrough technology. You see it in the QWERTY keyboard, domain…

Pia TenederoJune 7, 2018

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Language politics

Will technology make language rights obsolete?

Something has been nagging at me recently. I read a lot of tech news, and it seems automated translation is about to get a whole lot better, and a whole…

Dave SayersApril 25, 2017

Automating silence?

Why teachers turn to AI

Living Together Across Borders

Home schooling in Covid-19: challenges for migrant families

Is English spelling an insult to human intelligence?

Why are academic lectures so weird?

Language lessons of COVID-19 and linguistic disaster preparedness

Will technology make language rights obsolete?

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