"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Britta SchneiderAugust 22, 2016
The New Books Network has just published an interview with Ingrid Piller about her new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. The host of the show, Chris Cummins, sums up the…
Lg_on_the_moveAugust 4, 2016
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