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Chats in Linguistic Diversity

How to teach TESOL ethically in an English-dominant world

Carla Chamberlin, Ingrid Piller, and Mak Khan in conversation TESOL and social justice One of the thrusts of my research has been a critical examination of the social consequences of…

Ingrid PillerNovember 19, 2020

Foreign language learning for minority empowerment?

LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor’s note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…

Li JiaOctober 23, 2020

Language and law

Language learning is integral to practice-based legal education

Language learning is integral to practice-based legal education, and needs to be given more attention in research and course design. That’s the key message of my recently published article about…

Alexandra GreyOctober 15, 2020

News

Literacy in heritage language maintenance

The NSW Federation of Community Language Schools offers an online master class about "Literacy in heritage language maintenance" as part of its community language teacher training development series. This series…

Language on the MoveAugust 25, 2020

Covid-19

What does the post-COVID-19 future hold for Confucius Institutes?

Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a major shift in global linguistic and cultural flows. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Jeffrey…

Jeffrey GilJuly 10, 2020

Language at work

Empowerment of Chinese Muslim women through Arabic?

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

Covid-19

Recent-arrival migrant students during the Covid-19 school closures

Elisabeth Barakos and Simone Plöger, University of Hamburg *** Editor’s note: Learning from home is hard enough but what if you are simultaneously learning the language of instruction? In this…

Language on the MoveMay 25, 2020

Language and globalization

Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?

Wei Duan introduces herself to a group of Bangladeshi students at Yunnan University As a postgraduate student at Yunnan University in Southwest China, I have been conducting a longitudinal ethnography…

Wei DuanMay 23, 2020

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2020

Read a lot, write a lot! Reading enhances your productivity as this selection (!) of recent books authored by Language-on-the-Move team members proves Are you ready for the Language on…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 8, 2020

Language in Australia

Holiday treat for language lovers

ABC Radio National has the perfect holiday treat for language lovers: a 5-part podcast series about multilingualism in Australia. In "Tongue-tied and fluent", Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham (who…

Ingrid PillerDecember 23, 2019

Next Gen Literacies

Gaming language learning

For one of my postgraduate courses in Applied Linguistics, I was asked to write an assignment about my language learning history. Recalling all the phases I went through to learn…

Luis Torres VasquezAugust 28, 2019

English as a global language

Reading to learn in another language

A non-fluent Latin reader painstakingly worked her way through this text “Man is an obligate aerobe”, I recently read in a medicine book for general readers (Nuland, 1993). The phrase…

Ingrid PillerAugust 11, 2019

Language politics

Advocating for linguistic diversity

Linguistic diversity is a demographic reality, as Dr Alexandra Grey pointed out in her presentation This week, Professor Lisa Lim and her colleagues from Sydney University’ School of Languages and Cultures…

Ingrid PillerMay 17, 2019

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2019

Shelves in the Martha-Muchow-Library of Education at Hamburg University After a busy 2018 and a relaxing break, Language on the Move is back for another year of sociolinguistics of intercultural…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 24, 2019

Can English skills help end migrant exploitation?

In Bahrain, I was beaten. For example, they asked for tea. I gave tea leaves. I did not make the tea. She put her hand on my neck and moved…

Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury and Elizabeth J. ErlingOctober 15, 2018

Language learning

Are bilinguals better language learners?

Professor Peter Siemund, Hamburg University, during his guest lecture at Macquarie University It is easy to assume that bilinguals are better at adding another language to their repertoire. But is…

Hanna TorshOctober 5, 2018