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Language and globalization

Who’s inward-looking?

Yoshiko Nakano's essay in Yomiuri Newspaper “Young people in Japan no longer want to go abroad.” This news reached me in Australia last year and formed part of the background…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江January 11, 2011

Language learning

The latest issue of Cross-Cultural Studies (published by the Center for Cross Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea) includes an article about the dark side of TESOL authored by Ingrid Piller,…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江September 13, 2010

Language learning

هشدار: انگلیسی جهانی ممکن است به سلامت روانی شما آسیب برساند

Persian version of my recent blog post about the (over-)consumption of English language learning. Translated by زهره قرایی (Zohreh Gharaei) حدود ده سال پیش یک دانشجوی خارجی که از کره ی…

Ingrid PillerJuly 14, 2010

Language in Australia

Not pork but bacon

Rashid is an overseas graduate student at an Australian university. He is a Muslim from the Middle East, and this is the story of how he inadvertently ate pork during…

Ingrid PillerJune 26, 2010

Language learning

Warning: Global English may harm your mental health

About ten years ago an overseas student from South Korea who was about to fail a unit I was teaching left a suicide note under my office door. She described…

Ingrid PillerMarch 16, 2010

Who’s inward-looking?

The dark side of TESOL

هشدار: انگلیسی جهانی ممکن است به سلامت روانی شما آسیب برساند

Warning: Global English may harm your mental health

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