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Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2022

The Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading in the discipline and beyond, and to make linguistics reading fun. Anyone with an interest in the…

Language on the MoveNovember 30, 2021

Language and migration

What can churches teach us about migrant inclusion?

Chinese signage on churches is increasingly prominent in Sydney’s linguistic landscape. These signs are surprising because they are bilingual in a predominantly English monolingual linguistic landscape. They are also surprising…

Ingrid PillerJune 21, 2021

Covid-19

The quality of COVID-19 communication is a test of social cohesion

Editor’s note: The language challenges of the COVID-19 crisis have held much of our attention this year. Here on Language on the Move, we have been running a series devoted to language…

Peter O'KeefeDecember 10, 2020

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

2020 has been a strange year for reading: some of us have had a lot more time for reading, others far less. Regardless whether you’ve been able to indulge or…

Language on the MoveDecember 3, 2020

Language in Australia

English language proficiency and national cohesion

Victorian Multicultural Commission, Melbourne (Image credit: Pramuk Perera, via Unsplash) In August, Australia’s Acting Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, Alan Tudge, announced the extension of the…

Miriam FaineNovember 24, 2020

Covid-19

Crisis communication in multilingual Australia

Editor's note: The Covid-19 crisis has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of…

Language on the MoveOctober 12, 2020

Language in Australia

Australians speaking Asian

“Fremdschämen” is a German word that means being embarrassed on behalf of someone else. In Australia, this feeling is frequently induced by the behavior of our politicians. Yesterday, public embarrassment…

Ingrid PillerApril 14, 2019

Next Gen Literacies

Creating a multilingual library

In my work with multilingual families, reading in the home language raises its head on so many levels. It is viewed as a shared family activity in a way that…

Sabine LittleNovember 7, 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

Multilingual families

Bilingual parenting in the early years

As a parent you know how complicated it is to find a childcare centre for your children: you have a mental list of must-haves and no-goes; you browse the web;…

Victoria BenzAugust 22, 2017

Language and migration

Multiculturalism, linguistic diversity, and citizenship testing

Miriam's mother arrived as a refugee in New Zealand in 1939. She still remembers the kindness her family was shown. Like many other Western countries, Australia is currently grappling with…

Miriam FaineJuly 13, 2017

Intercultural communication

Silent Invisible Women

Imagine you live under constant scrutiny in society: you are an Australian woman, you come from a Lebanese-Muslim background, and your hijab identifies you wherever you go. How would you…

Ayah WehbeJune 2, 2017

Multilingual families

Bidirectional Language Learning in Migrant Families

Our newest PhD, Dr Shiva Motaghi Tabari (3rd from left) The Language on the Move team is proud to announce another freshly-minted PhD in our midst! Dr Shiva Motaghi Tabari…

Lg_on_the_moveApril 27, 2017

Language in education

Ten lessons from the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium

Presenters and members of the organizing team at the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium Last week the Language-on-the-Move team at Macquarie University was fortunate to host a delegation of education researchers…

Ingrid PillerMarch 27, 2017

Intercultural communication

‘I’m not listening to you!’ Interacting in a linguistically diverse society

Manus Island Detention Centre, where Faysal Ishak Ahmed collapsed (Source: ABC News) On December 23, 2016, as most Australians were winding down for the holiday week ahead, Faysal Ishak Ahmed,…

Ingrid PillerMarch 15, 2017

News

Bridging Language Barriers Symposium: Abstracts

Our visitors from Hamburg University are getting ready to travel 16,295 km to Sydney for the 'Bridging Language Barriers' Symposium The count-down for the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium at Macquarie University…

Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 23, 2017

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2022

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

English language proficiency and national cohesion

Australians speaking Asian

Creating a multilingual library

Bilingual parenting in the early years

Multiculturalism, linguistic diversity, and citizenship testing

Ten lessons from the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium

Bridging Language Barriers Symposium: Abstracts

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