"Giant Head" installation at the Gentle Monster store at Sydney Airport One of the goals of graduate education is to empower students to reach their academic and professional goals by…
Ingrid PillerAugust 25, 2024
Image from a university website “An amazing student experience awaits you!” - “a multicultural vibrant experience” in a “stunning landscape” covered by “year-round sunshine.” These phrases do not come from a…
Agnes BodisMay 27, 2023
Dr Agnes Bodis with her supervisors on graduation day Congratulations to Dr Agnes Bodis and Dr Liesa Rühlmann, who both recently graduated from their PhDs! The PhD research by both…
Language on the MoveApril 4, 2023
(Image credit: Mana Akbarzadegan via Unsplash) Have you noticed the persistent divide between domestic and international students at Australian universities? Do you worry how the English-monolingual habitus of our highly…
Language on the MoveMarch 27, 2023
(Image credit: Mana Akbarzadegan via Unsplash) When Muhammad* applied for admission to a postgraduate degree at an Australian university, he was asked to show evidence of his English language proficiency.…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 6, 2023
Diversity of international students is celebrated through images that map students onto nations represented by their flags International education is often touted as a golden road to fluency in another…
Li JiaMarch 16, 2021
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…
Tazin AbdullahNovember 27, 2020
Wei Duan introduces herself to a group of Bangladeshi students at Yunnan University As a postgraduate student at Yunnan University in Southwest China, I have been conducting a longitudinal ethnography…
Wei DuanMay 23, 2020
Do we see international students as opportunity or threat? (Screenshot from 'Degrees of Deception') With recent news on the number of international students in Australia reaching a new high and…
Agnes BodisMay 31, 2017
"Learn Chinese, Double Your World": Promotion of Chinese as a global language Research seminar about the language learning experiences of Burmese high school students in China Topic: Following the China…
Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 10, 2017
Grace Chu-Lin Chang has completed her PhD thesis entitled “Language learning, academic achievement, and overseas experience: A sociolinguistic study of Taiwanese students in Australian higher education”. The thesis is now available…
Grace Chu-Lin ChangFebruary 23, 2016
2012 workshop on 'Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia' at Macquarie University How does language intersect with social inclusion in contemporary Australia? Do social inclusion policies address linguistic diversity?…
Lg_on_the_moveNovember 25, 2014
Christmas party at an International High School in Yunnan Over the past few decades, an increasing number of Burmese international students have enrolled in high schools in Yunnan, a province…
Li JiaOctober 27, 2014
For international students, it's sink or swim (Image source: luvimages.com) It is one of the basic findings of decades of research in bilingual education that language submersion is not a…
Ingrid PillerAugust 6, 2014
Burmese newspaper in a Bangkok restaurant “When Thai people ask me where I’m from, I tell them, “Oh I’m from the Philippines or Singapore. Then, I don’t get that look!”…
Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 23, 2013
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