New Zealand's PM wants to raise her newborn daughter bilingually (Source: radionz) New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, plans to raise her newborn daughter bilingually in Māori and English. Her…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 3, 2018
Language choice in bilingual couples as habit (excerpt from Piller, 2002, p. 137) In my research with bilingual couples, habit emerged as one of the main reasons for a couple’s…
Ingrid PillerAugust 1, 2018
English is the mother tongue of the Internet, or so it seems. English is omnipresent in the architecture of this breakthrough technology. You see it in the QWERTY keyboard, domain…
Pia TenederoJune 7, 2018
Sociolinguistics needs to center Africa Minority language maintenance and revitalization is a sub-discipline of sociolinguistics that I mostly stay away from. My discomfort with most of the research in that…
Ingrid PillerMay 3, 2018
The website of Hohhot Baita International Airport provides information in Chinese and English but not in Mongolian Update, Sept 16, 2020: A Mongolian translation of this blog post is now…
Gegentuul BaioudApril 18, 2018
"This is English", a shop assistant told me. Language is literally “on the move” in the writing on clothing. We’ve all seen it but may not have taken much notice.…
Alexandra GreyApril 11, 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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