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Congratulations, Dr Chen!

Dr Xiaoxiao Chen on her graduation day at Macquarie University Language on the Move proudly presents another new PhD! Dr Xiaoxiao Chen graduated from Macquarie University last week. Her PhD…

Lg_on_the_moveJune 6, 2013

Language learning

Learning a language the easy way

The Omidvar brothers on the road: amazing feats of discovery and language learning? In his most recent round of interviews with the magazine Særzæmin-e Mæn (“My Country”), Issa Omidvar, one…

Vahid ParvareshApril 29, 2013

Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual Macau

The front cover of the tourist map of multilingual Macau Last week I had the privilege of visiting the University of Macau and in Macau I discovered yet another unique…

Ingrid PillerApril 22, 2013

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Collaboration with Tourism Authority of Thailand

On 13 March, the research team made its first visit to Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) on Petchaburi Road, Bangkok, to seek support and explore collaboration opportunities for the Thailand-on-the-Move…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江March 25, 2013

Intercultural communication

The exotic Chinese language

Chinese: What does the Chinese language mean to Western tourists visiting China? Ingrid’s blog post “Character challenge” has set me thinking about Chinese language learning these days. I have found…

Chen Xiaoxiao 陈潇潇January 4, 2013

English as a global language

Seeing Asians speaking English

Who of these two men do you expect to speak better English?* I am very much looking forward to attending the International Conference on Research and Applications of Intercultural Communication…

Ingrid PillerNovember 9, 2012

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Naxi, Chinese and English

Bilingual signage in Lijiang: Dongba pictograms are in the blue banners (Source: Wikipedia) The next seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held…

Lg_on_the_moveSeptember 12, 2012

English as a global language

Italy in Karachi

Pompei Restaurant, Karachi (Source: fcpakistan.com) A few days ago I had an Alice-in-Wonderland experience. Having lived all my life in Karachi, I had until then never heard of the Pompei…

Muhammad Ali KhanJuly 6, 2012

Language and tourism

English for travel

Ad for ‘English for travel’ classes ( www.gaba.co.jp/ad) A few weeks ago, my family and I went to Jim Thompson’s special sales at BITEC in Bang Na, a short train…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江July 2, 2012

Linguistic landscapes

Pencils on the move

Sadly, my sabbatical is drawing to a close and one of the things to think about now is souvenirs. My sabbatical involved visits to Germany, Iran and the United Arab…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 26, 2012

Language at work

Money talks

Those of us in the broad area of TESOL often labor under the assumption of the invincibility of English hegemony. Whether they deplore it or exult in it, many people…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 17, 2012

Shop signs of hostess bars on Thaniya Road, Sala Daeng, Bangkok

Language and tourism

The dark side of intercultural communication

At 11pm at a Japanese ramen restaurant in Thaniya, Bangkok, a group of five middle-aged Japanese men and five young Thai women were dining right next to my table. It's…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江January 18, 2011

Language and tourism

English in Iran

Even a casual observer of the linguistic landscape in Iran will have to conclude that Iranians have a collective fetish for English. Almost all public signage is bilingual in English…

Ingrid PillerDecember 30, 2010

Linguistic landscapes

Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual

Space challenged Shinjuku, Tokyo (September 2010): Photo by Kimie Takahashi Tokyo is getting more and more linguistically diverse every time I go back there. During this trip, I was really…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 15, 2010

Language and tourism

Finding Switzerland in Japan

As a non-speaker and non-reader of Japanese I went to Japan fully expecting to be confused. However, the only confusing moment I experienced had nothing to do with anything Japanese:…

Ingrid PillerOctober 6, 2010

Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual Tokyo

I had been led to believe that Japan was a very monolingual place interspersed with Engrish ads, commercial signage and T-shirts. Well, that has turned out to be just another…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 28, 2010

Congratulations, Dr Chen!

Learning a language the easy way

Multilingual Macau

Collaboration with Tourism Authority of Thailand

The exotic Chinese language

Seeing Asians speaking English

Naxi, Chinese and English

English for travel

Pencils on the move

Money talks

The dark side of intercultural communication

English in Iran

Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual

Finding Switzerland in Japan

Multilingual Tokyo

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