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Bridging Language Barriers Symposium: Program Update

A pdf version of the "Bridging Language Barriers" program is available here. ***Update, Feb 23: Abstracts now available here*** A one-day symposium at Macquarie University asks how language barriers…

Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 16, 2017

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Following the China Dream

"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

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Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice wins Prose Award

Ingrid Piller's "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" wins Prose Award Language on the Move is finally back from our summer break. The New Year has started well for us with…

Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 9, 2017

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Language on the Move 2016

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 2017! We will be…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 21, 2016

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Bridging Language Barriers Symposium

Feb 16, 2017: ***Program update now available here*** Despite their commitment to diversity and equality of access, contemporary multicultural societies and their institutions struggle to find effective ways to overcome…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 16, 2016

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Revaluing minority languages

The 16th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVI) will be held at University of Jyväskylä Language Campus The 16th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVI) and the 34th Summer School and Conference…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 1, 2016

Language and globalization

Interpreting English language ideologies in Korea: dreams vs. realities

Jinhyun Cho was awarded her PhD for her thesis about "Interpreting English language ideologies in Korea: dreams vs. realities" Many people around the world dream of learning English. The pursuit of…

Lg_on_the_moveNovember 24, 2016

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Doing and Applying Linguistics in a Globalised World

Linguistic Society of New Zealand (Language in Society) Annual Conference at Massey University, Wellington, on 21-22 November Massey University (http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/home.cfm) Despite recent shaky events here in Wellington, sunshine is forecast…

Lg_on_the_moveNovember 18, 2016

Intercultural communication

Do bilinguals express different emotions in different languages?

Does this delicious Libyan Herb Bread taste even yummier in English? Is it the case that bilinguals have dual identities or divided loyalties where they associate each aspect of their…

Hanan Ben NafaOctober 18, 2016

Language and globalization

How States Promote Global English: Shifting Priorities in Education

Cover of 2008 movie "Mad about English" (Source: Zhang, Jie. Language policy and planning for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. ) We are repeatedly told that people around the world are…

Peter IvesOctober 11, 2016

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Language on the Move is turning seven! Happy anniversary and to the next seven years! Language on the Move first went live today seven years ago, on October 04, 2009. We…

Lg_on_the_moveOctober 4, 2016

Language and globalization

Urban sociolinguistics in Dubai

A couple of years ago, I mused here on Language on the Move what linguistic theory would look like if its dominant cultural ideas had not been shaped in 1950s…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 29, 2016

Language and migration

Piller, I. (Ed.) (2016) Language and Migration. London: Routledge. Humans are a migratory species. Although in modern society the dominant imagery we have created about ourselves is that it is…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 15, 2016

Why a multilingual social imagination matters

Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend the 2016 annual conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. In my…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 6, 2016

Language and migration

Discourses of Integration: Language, Skills, and the Politics of Difference

From inside Jaume Plensa's House of Knowledge, Bordeaux, France (Photo by Shirley Yeung) In much of Western and Northern Europe, we find ourselves in the wake of a widespread retreat…

Mi-Cha Flubacher and Shirley YeungAugust 29, 2016

Language politics

How to Study Language and Social Relations in Times of Global Mobility

The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin Imagine you want to study language diversity as a phenomenon of contemporary society. Where do you start? You can, for example, ask teachers to count…