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
Grade 2 Oral Tetun class Editor's note: As the Language on the Move team is busy preparing for the "Bridging Language Barriers" Symposium to be hosted at Macquarie University on March 16,…
Kerry Taylor-LeechMarch 2, 2017
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
A pdf version of the "Bridging Language Barriers" program is available here. ***Update, Feb 23: Abstracts now available here*** A one-day symposium at Macquarie University asks how language barriers…
Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 16, 2017
Ingrid Piller's "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" wins Prose Award Language on the Move is finally back from our summer break. The New Year has started well for us with…
Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 9, 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 2017! We will be…
Lg_on_the_moveDecember 21, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend the 2016 annual conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. In my…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 6, 2016
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
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
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
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