ABC Radio National has the perfect holiday treat for language lovers: a 5-part podcast series about multilingualism in Australia. In "Tongue-tied and fluent", Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham (who…
Ingrid PillerDecember 23, 2019
Professor Simon Handley, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences, congratulates our HDR Excellence Award winners The year ends on a final high note for our team with three…
Language on the MoveDecember 13, 2019
Language on the Move is primarily concerned with linguistic resources that, in one way or another, have been or are ‘on the move’ and thus develops a profound understanding of…
Britta SchneiderDecember 9, 2019
Professor Ingrid Gogolin (Image credit: Markus Scholz) ***Update Nov 18, 2019: Due to unforeseen circumstances this lecture has been cancelled.*** On Monday, November 25, we'll host the final Lecture in Linguistic…
Language on the MoveOctober 25, 2019
Welcome message to the Aga Khan IV inscribed into the mountain, Pasu, Upper Hunza, Pakistan Transnationalism is a notion that is both presumed to be clear whilst also recognised as…
Brook BolanderOctober 9, 2019
President George W. Bush signs the "No Child Left Behind" act in 2002 (Image credit: Wikipedia) In 2001, the United States government responded to the apparent lack of quality education…
Emily McKinneyMay 23, 2019
Linguistic diversity is a demographic reality, as Dr Alexandra Grey pointed out in her presentation This week, Professor Lisa Lim and her colleagues from Sydney University’ School of Languages and Cultures…
Ingrid PillerMay 17, 2019
“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
Professor Katrijn Maryns explains the linguistic transformations that turn "undocumented migrants" into "genuine" or "bogus refugees" Language is the inescapable medium through which we live our lives. Access to social…
Ingrid PillerApril 8, 2019
Language in asylum determinations (Image Credit: moz.de) We’ll be kicking off the 2019 Lectures in Linguistic Diversity series at Macquarie University with a guest lecture by Katrijn Maryns, Ghent University,…
Language on the MoveMarch 18, 2019
Students in a Tibetan-medium school in Kathmandu study for their exams. By knowing the number and age of speakers of a particular language, policy makers can better plan for their…
Naomi FillmoreFebruary 26, 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
A restaurant sign featuring both Tibetan and Chinese, in a village where the Tibetan residents speak Ngandehua, one of Tibet's minority languages (Image: Gerald Roche) As elsewhere in High Asia,…
Gerald RocheNovember 19, 2018
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
Professor Peter Siemund, Hamburg University, during his guest lecture at Macquarie University It is easy to assume that bilinguals are better at adding another language to their repertoire. But is…
Hanna TorshOctober 5, 2018
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