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Research reflections

Do concepts and methods have ethics?

Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…

Petteri LaihonenJune 18, 2020

Covid-19

Multilingual resources key to fighting COVID-19

Multilingualism - the use of two or more languages within a polity - is often seen by governments as an impediment, if not a threat, to nation-building and national identity.…

Rizwan AhmadApril 14, 2020

Language and law

Lawyers need to know more about language

2019 Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists Note: This post was co-authored with Alexandra Grey. The Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) was held…

Laura Smith-KhanJuly 18, 2019

Language in education

Fences, language and education

Building the Danish boar fence (Image credit: NDR) Fences are popular these days: not only in the US with its border-wall-to-Mexico saga but also in Denmark, which recently started to…

Martha Sif KarrebækMay 10, 2019

Language and globalization

Promoting English in Saudi Arabia

Advertisement for Wall Street English Institute “Do you speak English?” is a frequently asked question, which Saudi people must be prepared to answer with a confident “Yes!” when applying for…

Samar AlkhalilMarch 25, 2019

Language and globalization

From Minority Languages to Minoritized Languages

The national language is the mother tongue of the vast majority of citizens in most European states (Source: Josu Amezaga, MQ Lecture, 22-11-2017) Last week, Professor Josu Amezaga from the…

Pia TenederoNovember 30, 2017

Language and migration

Feeling weird using your home language?

Fliers for Persian community events (Persian Library Parramatta, Nov 2010) Editor’s note: In the second instalment in our series “Explorations in Language Shaming”, Dr Shiva Motaghi-Tabari examines children’s attitudes towards…

Shiva Motaghi TabariOctober 5, 2017

Language and migration

Linguistic diversity and “cosmopolitan bias”

One of the consequences of the recent upsurge in nationalist politics around the world has been a rise in attacks on the idea of linguistic diversity. As national language ideologies…

Philip SeargeantSeptember 18, 2017

Language and globalization

Dreams vs. realities in English

We all have childhood dreams. Mine was to become a writer, which, unfortunately, was not well received by my parents because it is a “hungry” job. Due to the absence…

Jinhyun ChoSeptember 1, 2017

Language and migration

Multiculturalism, linguistic diversity, and citizenship testing

Miriam's mother arrived as a refugee in New Zealand in 1939. She still remembers the kindness her family was shown. Like many other Western countries, Australia is currently grappling with…

Miriam FaineJuly 13, 2017

Language in education

Aboriginal languages matter – but to who?

NAIDOC Week 2017 Logo Every year, the first week of July marks NAIDOC Week - a time to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and recognise the achievements of…

Britt JacobsenJuly 3, 2017

Language politics

How do language rights affect minority languages in China?

Alexandra Grey proudly holding the physical product of her PhD research My university will shortly require only a digital copy of each PhD after it has been examined and awarded,…

Alexandra GreyJune 8, 2017

Language in education

Does a language have to be European to be ‘modern’?

Top 10 languages other than English spoken in England and Wales, 2011 (Source: ONS) Modern languages are not merely European languages. Obvious as this may seem, it needs restating as…

Jieun KiaerMay 29, 2017

Language and globalization

Fighting for ‘pure’ Mongolian

Image of dictionary burning circulating on social media On New Year’s Eve, when many people around the world were excited about firework shows, a group of Mongols in remote Inner…

Gegentuul BaioudApril 10, 2017

Language in education

Ten lessons from the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium

Presenters and members of the organizing team at the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium Last week the Language-on-the-Move team at Macquarie University was fortunate to host a delegation of education researchers…

Ingrid PillerMarch 27, 2017

News

Revaluing minority languages

The 16th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVI) will be held at University of Jyväskylä Language Campus The 16th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVI) and the 34th Summer School and Conference…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 1, 2016

Do concepts and methods have ethics?

Multilingual resources key to fighting COVID-19

Lawyers need to know more about language

Fences, language and education

Promoting English in Saudi Arabia

From Minority Languages to Minoritized Languages

Feeling weird using your home language?

Dreams vs. realities in English

Multiculturalism, linguistic diversity, and citizenship testing

Aboriginal languages matter – but to who?

How do language rights affect minority languages in China?

Does a language have to be European to be ‘modern’?

Fighting for ‘pure’ Mongolian

Ten lessons from the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium

Revaluing minority languages

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