language learning – Page 12 – Language on the Move

Behind a name

One’s name is one of the most salient features for one’s identity. Some parents suffer from extraordinary indecisiveness when giving their newborn a wonderfully auspicious and proper name, all with…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangMay 2, 2011

Language learning

National Languages Curriculum

My daughter attends a public elementary school in NSW where the children are taught French for one hour each week. In 2009, she was away from her school for one…

Ingrid PillerMarch 4, 2011

Language learning

Where is home?

Many of the people close to my heart are transnationals such as myself. Belonging is a frequently discussed topic in my circles, and often a topic that is surrounded by…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 26, 2011

Language in education

Long-term English language learners

When I first started teaching in Australia, I had a Korean-Australian student in one of my undergraduate classes who sounded like most of the other students in my class, like…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 18, 2011

Language and tourism

Do you speak Swiss?

A most amazing book has just landed on my desk: Do you speak Swiss, edited by Walter Haas, is the final report on a Swiss National Research Project devoted to…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 14, 2011

Next Gen Literacies

When illiteracy is a privilege

Thai alphabet Learning Thai has its many challenges but one of the great joys for me has been encountering the Thai script. At the start I felt like a five-year-old-child,…

Sheila PhamFebruary 11, 2011

Language, education and poverty

Last year the British Council initiated a dialogue about language policy and particularly language-in-education policy in Pakistan, and their report was recently published. The introduction includes the following two statements:…

Muhammad Ali KhanFebruary 5, 2011

Language learning

Language learning and height

Are you tall enough to learn English? Have you ever reflected on the relationship between height and language learning? Well, I haven’t, and I’ve been in language teaching and learning…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 28, 2011

News

Language on the Move in the Middle East

In December and January Ingrid will be visiting universities in Iran and the United Arab Emirates and she will be speaking about her research in the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, language…

Lg_on_the_moveNovember 30, 2010

Multilingual histories

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night

Joe Hill front cover Today 105 years ago, on November 19, 1905, Joe Hill was executed in Utah. Although his name is rather forgotten today, Joe Hill was arguably one…

Ingrid PillerNovember 19, 2010

Language learning

German is so funny. Not.

Earlier this term I intercepted a note my 7-year-old had written to her teacher: “Ger Ger Ger; Don’t be so rude.” She was objecting to a reading comprehension exercise about…

Ingrid PillerNovember 6, 2010

Intercultural communication

Insult and injury in Ueno Park

Lotus Pond (part of Shinobazu Pond) in Ueno Park “There are so many stupid Japanese women around, huh? Many Westerners are coming to our country and the stupid women love…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 11, 2010

Language learning

The dark side of TESOL

The latest issue of Cross-Cultural Studies (published by the Center for Cross Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea) includes an article about the dark side of TESOL authored by Ingrid Piller,…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江September 13, 2010

English as a global language

وی نات شیپ تو راشا

Persian version of my blog post about language evolution Translated by Anna Mirzaiyan (آنا ميرزاييان) آخرهفته سری به سایت ای بِی زدم، اما به جای وسيله ای كه دنبالش می…

Ingrid PillerAugust 31, 2010

Intercultural communication

Total immersion

I am currently a visiting scholar from Isfahan, Iran, in Sydney, Australia. Therefore, I speak English most of the time. I use English with my colleagues at work although, interestingly,…

Vahid ParvareshAugust 25, 2010

English as a global language

Language and inflation

Some Language-on-the-Movers based here in Sydney had the opportunity to attend Professor Masaki Oda’s lecture about the current state of the English language in Japan yesterday. With major Japanese companies…

Ingrid PillerAugust 5, 2010

Behind a name

National Languages Curriculum

When illiteracy is a privilege

Language learning and height

Language on the Move in the Middle East

German is so funny. Not.

Insult and injury in Ueno Park

The dark side of TESOL

وی نات شیپ تو راشا

Total immersion

Language and inflation

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