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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Language choice in bilingual couples as habit (excerpt from Piller, 2002, p. 137) In my research with bilingual couples, habit emerged as one of the main reasons for a couple’s…
Ingrid PillerAugust 1, 2018
This week is Library and Information week (#LIW2018). Library and Information Week aims to raise the profile of libraries and information service professionals in Australia. What better way to celebrate…
Ingrid PillerMay 21, 2018
An injured young man wakes up on a German hospital ship in 1943. His mind is blank: he cannot remember who he is, or even how to speak, and has…
Laura Smith-KhanMay 16, 2018
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