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Language on the Move 2016

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 2017! We will be…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 21, 2016

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Bridging Language Barriers Symposium

Feb 16, 2017: ***Program update now available here*** Despite their commitment to diversity and equality of access, contemporary multicultural societies and their institutions struggle to find effective ways to overcome…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 16, 2016

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Revaluing minority languages

The 16th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVI) will be held at University of Jyväskylä Language Campus The 16th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVI) and the 34th Summer School and Conference…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 1, 2016

Intercultural communication

Building bridges in a divided world

"Good people make a good country" by Addo Tetteh As I am trying to finalize the manuscript for the second revised edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical…

Ingrid PillerNovember 10, 2016

Language and migration

Stereotyped ethnic names as a barrier to workplace entry

Who of the three women in this image do you think German employers are most likely to consider as a potential employee and call for a job interview? Obviously, the…

Ingrid PillerNovember 4, 2016

Intercultural communication

Do bilinguals express different emotions in different languages?

Does this delicious Libyan Herb Bread taste even yummier in English? Is it the case that bilinguals have dual identities or divided loyalties where they associate each aspect of their…

Hanan Ben NafaOctober 18, 2016

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Language on the Move is turning seven! Happy anniversary and to the next seven years! Language on the Move first went live today seven years ago, on October 04, 2009. We…

Lg_on_the_moveOctober 4, 2016

Language and globalization

Urban sociolinguistics in Dubai

A couple of years ago, I mused here on Language on the Move what linguistic theory would look like if its dominant cultural ideas had not been shaped in 1950s…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 29, 2016

Language in education

Can ESL teachers play a role in helping maintain the home language?

ESL teachers play an important role in home language maintenance (Image Credit: Macquarie University) Learning the host country’s language is important for migrants but we should not forget that maintaining…

Agnes BodisSeptember 21, 2016

Language and migration

Piller, I. (Ed.) (2016) Language and Migration. London: Routledge. Humans are a migratory species. Although in modern society the dominant imagery we have created about ourselves is that it is…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 15, 2016

Language and migration

Discourses of Integration: Language, Skills, and the Politics of Difference

From inside Jaume Plensa's House of Knowledge, Bordeaux, France (Photo by Shirley Yeung) In much of Western and Northern Europe, we find ourselves in the wake of a widespread retreat…

Mi-Cha Flubacher and Shirley YeungAugust 29, 2016

Language politics

How to Study Language and Social Relations in Times of Global Mobility

The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin Imagine you want to study language diversity as a phenomenon of contemporary society. Where do you start? You can, for example, ask teachers to count…

Britta SchneiderAugust 22, 2016

How language can entrench disadvantage

The New Books Network has just published an interview with Ingrid Piller about her new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. The host of the show, Chris Cummins, sums up the…

Lg_on_the_moveAugust 4, 2016

Multilingual histories

Serendipity, Cyberspace, and the Tactility of Documents

Front of postcard sent by Private Jacob Isak Sicherman on 1 June 1916 Remember library stacks? Browsing among books? Serendipitously finding on a nearby shelf what you didn’t know you…

Carol SichermanJuly 28, 2016

Language in education

Do monolingual teachers produce a Golem effect in multilingual students?

Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher expectations result in students’ lower academic performance. The positive effect…

Ingrid PillerMay 11, 2016

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Invitation to e-seminar “Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice”

The Linguistic Ethnography Forum will host a free e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics. Please join us for this…

Lg_on_the_moveMay 4, 2016