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Language in education

Schooling challenges of multilingual children

Colours of the alphabet February 21 is International Mother Language Day and serves as an opportunity to discuss and promote the use of first-language medium education. The United Nations Educational,…

Laura Smith-KhanFebruary 21, 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

Research reflections

Remembering Limerick

These umbrellas quickly became the trademark of ISB11, and could be spotted all over Limerick – and beyond! In June this year, I was fortunate to attend the 11th International…

Livia GerberDecember 11, 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

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News

Seminar about Minority Languages

Map of European languages (Source: SB Language Maps) Invitation to public seminar about "Minority Languages" at Macquarie University What: Minority languages: what are we talking about? And why are we…

Lg_on_the_moveNovember 15, 2017

Language and globalization

More on banal cosmopolitanism

My banal cosmopolitan fridge magnets In response to my post about the banal cosmopolitanism of multilingual welcome signs last week, a number of people suggested that they quite enjoy finding…

Ingrid PillerNovember 6, 2017

Language and globalization

Banal cosmopolitanism

Multilingual "Welcome" sign in a shopping mall in Munich, Germany Have you recently seen a “welcome” sign? They constitute a strange genre: ever more ubiquitous on the one hand, yet…

Ingrid PillerOctober 31, 2017

Language and migration

Feeling weird using your home language?

Fliers for Persian community events (Persian Library Parramatta, Nov 2010) Editor’s note: In the second instalment in our series “Explorations in Language Shaming”, Dr Shiva Motaghi-Tabari examines children’s attitudes towards…

Shiva Motaghi TabariOctober 5, 2017

Language in education

Explorations in language shaming

At the recent 16th International Conference on Minority Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, I delivered a keynote lecture about “language shaming”. By “language shaming”, I mean (social) media…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 28, 2017

Language in education

Educating Burmese migrant students in China

Dr Li Jia (4th from right) with her supervisor, Professor Ingrid Piller, and members of the Language-on-the-Move team The Language on the Move team is proud to celebrate another PhD…

Lg_on_the_moveSeptember 22, 2017

Language and migration

Linguistic diversity and “cosmopolitan bias”

One of the consequences of the recent upsurge in nationalist politics around the world has been a rise in attacks on the idea of linguistic diversity. As national language ideologies…

Philip SeargeantSeptember 18, 2017

News

2017 BAAL Book Prize

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice has won the 2017 annual book prize of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Although I wasn’t able to attend the conference and award ceremony…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 4, 2017

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

Schooling challenges of multilingual children

Ingrid Piller receives 2018 Anneliese Maier Research Award

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2018

Language on the Move 2017

Remembering Limerick

From Minority Languages to Minoritized Languages

More on banal cosmopolitanism

Banal cosmopolitanism

Feeling weird using your home language?

Bilingual parenting in the early years

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