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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 in Australia

Being Chinese in Australia

Passport photos of early Chinese immigrants (Source: Invisible Australians) For most Chinese migrants, China is what they call home. China is the basis on which they establish a sense…

Yining WangSeptember 24, 2018

Language in education

What do migrant parents expect from schools?

Dr Fadila Boutouchent during her guest lecture at Macquarie University When she was in kindergarten, my oldest daughter came home one day talking about "our soldiers" who "went to war for…

Hanna TorshAugust 29, 2018

Language and globalization

Virtually multilingual

English is the mother tongue of the Internet, or so it seems. English is omnipresent in the architecture of this breakthrough technology. You see it in the QWERTY keyboard, domain…

Pia TenederoJune 7, 2018

Multilingual histories

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

Language learning

In search of a language and an identity

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

Next Gen Literacies

Getting published while foreign

Unpublished manuscripts from the estate of Hans Natonek (Source: Arts in exile) On International Women’s Day I explored why female academics publish less than their male peers. Academic journal submissions…

Ingrid PillerMarch 26, 2018

Language and globalization

Globalization between crime and piety

How is your Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge coming along? One month has gone by and you should have ticked off at least one book from our list. I started with an…

Ingrid PillerMarch 1, 2018

Intercultural communication

PhD Scholarship in Intercultural Communication

Top 5 languages spoken in Australia in 2016 (Source: ABS) The Language-on-the-Move team is getting ready to launch a new research project investigating everyday intercultural communication in multilingual and multicultural…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 12, 2018

News

Ingrid Piller receives 2018 Anneliese Maier Research Award

The award will enable language and education researchers from Hamburg and Macquarie Universities to deepen their collaboration Ingrid Piller is one of eight recipients of a 2018 Anneliese Maier Research…

Lg_on_the_moveJanuary 31, 2018

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2018

Language on the Move is back for another year and we’ll start the excitement with a reading challenge. One important piece of advice for all (aspiring) academics is to “Read,…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 29, 2018

News

Language on the Move 2017

Language on the Move is taking a break. Before we go, we’d like to wish all our readers peaceful holidays and a happy, healthy and prosperous 2018! We will be back…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 16, 2017

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 law

Are we all different in the same way?

Multilingual advice provided by the Administrate Review Tribunal Countries in the Global North have developed increasingly sophisticated and complex processes to assess the claims of people seeking asylum. One key…

Laura Smith-KhanNovember 14, 2017

Language and globalization

Becoming Diasporically Moroccan

On the ferry from Spain to Morocco My recent book Becoming Diasporically Moroccan explores how next-generations after migration use communicative resources to feel ‘at home’ in their ancestral homeland. By…

Lauren WagnerOctober 26, 2017

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2019

Being Chinese in Australia

In search of myself

In search of a language and an identity

Getting published while foreign

Globalization between crime and piety

Ingrid Piller receives 2018 Anneliese Maier Research Award

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2018

Language on the Move 2017

From Minority Languages to Minoritized Languages

Becoming Diasporically Moroccan

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