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Language and migration

“Broken Arabic” between mockery and commercialization

*** By Rizwan Ahmad, Salma Dhailia, and Mahla Almeraikhi *** Es fi: ‘Broken’ Arabic in the Gulf Screenshot from a Omar-Jamsheid TikTok video When you walk through the streets of…

Rizwan AhmadApril 28, 2026

Language and migration

Digital mutual aid among migrants, in the shadow of ChatGPT

Ukrainian migrant asking ChatGPT to explain different types of rental contracts in Austria (still from Yudytska & Androutsopoulos 2025) For nearly four years now, I’ve been heavily involved in online…

Jenia YudytskaFebruary 9, 2026

Covid-19 Next Gen Literacies

Wicked problems, social media, and how to overcome the epistemological crisis

The COVID Pandemic, the most disruptive event since the Second World War, is a good example of a wicked problem. It has multiple, interrelated aspects, and every time we take…

Fred D'AgostinoAugust 10, 2023

Intercultural communication Next Gen Literacies

New ways to answer old questions about Ramadan

Image 1 Like many parents of teenagers, I delightedly welcome any occasion to connect with a generation I don’t always understand and that doesn’t always understand me. As a Muslim…

Tazin AbdullahApril 19, 2023

Language and globalization Next Gen Literacies

Hallyu and Korean language learning

LI, Jia & HE, Bin, Yunnan University *** ‘The Glory’, a Korean drama, has ranked the top among the ten most watched TV and films since its release on March…

Li JiaApril 17, 2023

Language politics Next Gen Literacies

Minority languages on social media

On this year’s International Mother Language Day, the UN is encouraging us to reflect on the role of technology in multilingual learning. Here, we are looking at the role of…

Gegentuul BaioudFebruary 28, 2022

Covid-19

Mismatched public health communication costs lives in Pakistan

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 to language…

Kinza Afraz AbbasiDecember 11, 2020

Language in Australia

Indigenous language denialism in Australia

Gerald Roche (Senior Research Fellow, La Trobe University) and Jakelin Troy (Director, Indigenous Research, The University of Sydney) *** Source: Australian Museum Editor’s note: This week (Nov 08-15) we are…

Gerald RocheNovember 11, 2020

English as a global language

Minority languages on the rise?

LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor’s note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…

Li JiaOctober 21, 2020

Covid-19

More on crisis communication in multilingual Australia

Editor’s note: The Covid-19 crisis has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of the…

Language on the MoveOctober 13, 2020

Covid-19

Covid-19 misinformation between globalization and the reptilian brain

Editor’s note: Covid-19 has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis…

Mohamed TaiebineSeptember 26, 2020

Covid-19

Bridging new and traditional media in the fight against Covid-19

Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a renewed focus on linguistic diversity and the way it intersects with social inclusion. In this latest contribution to our series of language…

Vasiliki VitaAugust 12, 2020

Covid-19

Staring down the Covid-19 lockdown with multilingual humor

Sue Ollerhead, Lecturer (Languages Education), Macquarie University, Australia Shepi Mati: Lecturer (Radio) Rhodes University, South Africa Monica Hendricks: Director: Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, South…

Language on the MoveMay 12, 2020

Next Gen Literacies

What can you do so that your device doesn’t make you stupid?

(Image credit: Psychology Today) Device use is a major contemporary education challenge for parents and teachers alike. In our family, we have fairly strict rules around the use of internet-connected…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 7, 2019

Language and globalization

Virtually multilingual

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

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News

Seminar about Minority Languages

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

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