TESOL – Language on the Move

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language learning

Learning Languages on Social Media

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Yeong Ju Lee about her new book Social Media and Language Learning: Using TikTok and…

Brynn QuickMay 27, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language learning

Teaching English Pronunciation

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Lindsay McMahon, founder of the All Ears English Podcast, about pronunciation teaching for global English. What does it mean…

Hanna TorshApril 1, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language learning

Your languages are your superpower!

In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Cindy Valdez, an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) specialist, and Founder & CEO…

Agnes BodisNovember 17, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language in education

Sexual predation and English language teaching

In this episode Hanna Torsh talks to Vaughan Rapatahana about sexual predation in the English language teaching industry. Dr Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa) is an author, poet and editor who…

Hanna TorshSeptember 2, 2025

Language in education Next Gen Literacies

Immigrant Teachers Are Reshaping English Education

*** Dr Nashid Nigar and Professor Alex Kostogriz *** Imagine stepping into a classroom where students expect you to embody English in its “native” form, fluency, and culture. For many non-native…

Language on the MoveMarch 18, 2025

Next Gen Literacies

Are language technologies counterproductive to learning?

"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

Language learning Next Gen Literacies

Why is it so hard for English teachers to learn Japanese?

A chapter by this site’s founders set me off on a path to doing a Ph.D. and made me re-evaluate my linguistic practises and my position as an English teacher…

Owen MinnsMay 1, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Covid-19 Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual Commanding Urgency from Garbage to COVID-19

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Michael Chesnut, Professor in the Department of English for International Conferences and Communication at Hankuk University…

Brynn QuickApril 27, 2024

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

How I became an Applied Linguist with a China focus

Applied linguistics is the study of language-based problems in the world, or as Brumfit (1997) puts it, “the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is a…

Jeffrey GilApril 11, 2022

Covid-19

How the pandemic changed our teaching practicum

Editor’s note: Since February 2020, we have been running a series devoted to language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis here on Language on the Move. In this new post, two teacher…

Language on the MoveMay 14, 2021

Covid-19

Supporting ELICOS students through Covid-19

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

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

How to teach TESOL ethically in an English-dominant world

Carla Chamberlin, Ingrid Piller, and Mak Khan in conversation TESOL and social justice One of the thrusts of my research has been a critical examination of the social consequences of…

Ingrid PillerNovember 19, 2020

Next Gen Literacies

Gaming language learning

For one of my postgraduate courses in Applied Linguistics, I was asked to write an assignment about my language learning history. Recalling all the phases I went through to learn…

Luis Torres VasquezAugust 28, 2019

Language and globalization

Promoting English in Saudi Arabia

Advertisement for Wall Street English Institute “Do you speak English?” is a frequently asked question, which Saudi people must be prepared to answer with a confident “Yes!” when applying for…

Samar AlkhalilMarch 25, 2019

Multilingual histories

How to end native speaker privilege

Native and non-native teachers at Lord Harris' School, Royapett, Madras, 1865 (Source: British Library) For some time now, a debate has been raging in TESOL about the relative merits of…

Ingrid PillerMay 31, 2018

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

Teaching English Pronunciation

Your languages are your superpower!

Sexual predation and English language teaching

Immigrant Teachers Are Reshaping English Education

Are language technologies counterproductive to learning?

Why is it so hard for English teachers to learn Japanese?

Multilingual Commanding Urgency from Garbage to COVID-19

How I became an Applied Linguist with a China focus

How the pandemic changed our teaching practicum

Gaming language learning

Promoting English in Saudi Arabia

How to end native speaker privilege

How States Promote Global English: Shifting Priorities in Education

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