On 13 March, the research team made its first visit to Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) on Petchaburi Road, Bangkok, to seek support and explore collaboration opportunities for the Thailand-on-the-Move…
Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江March 25, 2013
Carrie Chen's successful chalk-and-talk method In my previous post, I discussed the celebrity status of star teachers in Taiwan. Although their good looks and personality do play a key role…
Jackie ChangMarch 12, 2013
Montana: the picture postcard state is not conducive to the empowerment of migrant women It is international women’s day today and the world’s women are on the move like never…
Ingrid PillerMarch 8, 2013
In today’s immigration countries, adherents of the “one nation, one language” idea face a unique ideological problem: to claim that the national language is a sign of national loyalty and…
Ingrid PillerMarch 4, 2013
Star teacher Ruby Hsu (Source: ruby.com.tw) The global English language learning boom has resulted not only in a huge number of English learners but also created a tremendous demand for…
Jackie ChangFebruary 26, 2013
Speak English, people! says British politician Ed Miliband (Source: msn.com) Every ten years the UK government conducts a census, which every British resident is obliged by law to take part…
Deborah CameronFebruary 22, 2013
Africa Town, Guangzhou (Source: ChinaSmack) What does an urban middle-class male university graduate from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, have in common with a peasant woman with little education from…
Ingrid PillerFebruary 19, 2013
Kimie Takahashi (2013) Language learning, gender and desire: Japanese women on the move. Multilingual Matters. It’s Valentine’s Day today. Valentine’s Day is a truly global event inextricably linking the emotional…
Ingrid PillerFebruary 14, 2013
The house of the English high school teacher in the village in Sulawesi where Pasassung conducted his fieldwork In a recent post, I reviewed language policy research that shows how…
Ingrid PillerFebruary 1, 2013
Maxdome This is a follow-up entry to a previous entry in which I wrote about the relationship between family language learning and Easy Hide IP, a proxy server software that…
Christof Demont-HeinrichJanuary 25, 2013
Ad for a private English language school in Taiwan: the normalization of American English is obvious in the name and imagery There is no denying the fact that English has…
Jackie ChangJanuary 22, 2013
Constructing language learning as global choice on melale.ir Persian version of Vahid Parvaresh, "Supermarket Language Learning"; translated by Behnam Keimasi (بهنام کیماسی) در ایران، همانند بسیار دیگری از کشورها، دولت به…
Vahid ParvareshJanuary 16, 2013
Promoting English language learning: billboard for private early English instruction in Wuhan Knowledge of English has come to be seen as the key talent of the 21st century, a way…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 11, 2013
Jogiyuhak (early study abroad) is very popular in South Korea (Source: chosun.com) Readers of Language on the Move will be familiar with South Korea’s English fever, the sweeping zeal for…
Bong Jeong LeeJanuary 8, 2013
So much hot air: the character for "meeting" consists of the one for "cloud" under a roof Before my recent visit to Wuhan and Hong Kong I was planning to…
Ingrid PillerDecember 12, 2012
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