Comments on: Ten lessons from the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium

By: zhao valencia

zhao valencia — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 03:35:00 +0000

It is indeed a great honour for me to enrol Dr. Piller’s literacy class, which I find really thought-provoking as well as intriguing. I also love the sketch of Dr. Piller, so vivid that it actually reminds me of the linguist Louis, the heroine in the famous sci-fiction movie “Arrival”. I have been teaching IELTS myself for almost 10 years, and helping a considerable amount of students passing the exam and get access to the higher oversea education, yet, it is not rare to hear them mentioning about the “invisible barrier” due to the insufficient interpersonal communicative competence. Our school teaching apparently is not adequately and effectively prepared for dealing with the “language barrier bridging” in many aspects, such as communicative competence, culture shock, blending in the social and campus activities and so on. There is still a long way to go under this globalisation context.

By: Rebecca Campbell

Rebecca Campbell — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:27:00 +0000

This is great. All of these 10 lessons are relative to my research on language, race, ethnicity, and education inequality in the U.S.

By: Sadami Konchi

Sadami Konchi — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:41:00 +0000

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ebf9e97cf14efe97382954ac920e7efd6cc712e107f4dee9bbf762d4a7571b98.jpg Not an easy topic, but we need to tackle language barriers from a grass roots level. Hope we can turn it into beneficial language diversity as human rights and equality. Special thanks to the LOTM team and Ingrid. Their TONs of unknown hard work has made such a fruitful symposium and an intimate mood among attendees. Above, Prof Ingrid Piller, host.