(Image credit: Australian Government, Study Australia) In her 2007 ethnographic study of eight US law schools, Elizabeth Mertz traces the process through which law students learn to “think like a…
Laura Smith-KhanApril 3, 2025
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is Part 5 of our series devoted to Life in a New Language. Life in a New Language is a new book just…
Language on the MoveJuly 11, 2024
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is Part 2 of our new series devoted to Life in a New Language. Life in a New Language is a…
Language on the MoveJune 19, 2024
Video available at Faculti: https://faculti.net/like-the-fish-not-in-water/ Editor's note: Despite its diversity, Australia continues to be imagined as a White nation. In this post, which is also available as a 20-minute video,…
Donna ButoracFebruary 20, 2024
Attendees at "Linguistic Inclusion Today" workshop pose for a group photo There is only one Australian university that has a program in Croatian Studies: Macquarie University. A few weeks ago,…
Ingrid PillerDecember 21, 2023
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
When Yu Qi (not her real name) discovered her son was falling behind in school, she had no way of finding out why or how she could support him. After…
Ingrid PillerAugust 26, 2022
(Image credit: John Schaidler via Unsplash) The Next Generation Literacies international research network hosts a free 2-day research symposium devoted to language diversity and participation across generations and contexts. When:…
Language on the MoveNovember 19, 2021
https://vimeo.com/440477672 Besides meetings, webinars, and classes, another traditionally face-to-face event organized this year via Zoom is the 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition. This yearly academic contest, which challenges students to explain…
Pia TenederoAugust 20, 2020
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
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
Lifei Wang, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University Jiangwei Sun, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University Jie Ren, School of Translation and…
Language on the MoveApril 1, 2020
How do universities in the Philippines prepare accounting students for communication in global workplaces? Watch this research presentation by Pia Tenedero to find out. This presentation was originally intended for…
Language on the MoveMarch 9, 2020
The project team at a partners meeting in Leeuwarden, Netherlands Europe recently experienced a dramatic influx of refugees. By the end of 2015, the European Union as a whole had…
Alina SchartnerAugust 21, 2019
Poland in China (Artwork by the author) Intercultural communication at work in multinational companies (MNCs) is increasingly common. Workplace communication in MNCs can be highly complex, as is the case…
Michał WilczewskiFebruary 16, 2019
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