As a parent you know how complicated it is to find a childcare centre for your children: you have a mental list of must-haves and no-goes; you browse the web;…
The Language-on-the-Move team is conducting award-winning research The Language on the Move team is delighted to share news of our multiple-award-winning research! 2017 Australian PhD Prize for Innovations in Linguistics The…
Media image for "the dual identity" of bilinguals (Source: Luxemburger Wort) We keep reading media reports of studies which conclude that people who speak more than one language are capable of perceiving…
Presenters and members of the organizing team at the Bridging Language Barriers Symposium Last week the Language-on-the-Move team at Macquarie University was fortunate to host a delegation of education researchers…
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…
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…
Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher expectations result in students’ lower academic performance. The positive effect…
Livia Gerber has just completed her Master of Research thesis entitled “We really believe that we have given our children a gift”: Discourses on bilingual child-rearing in an online parenting…
Alex spent a stimulating summer centered on child multilingualism away from the leafy Macquarie campus Macquarie University campus seemed to sleep in the summer sun once the semester ended last…
Editor's note: We are delighted to bring to our readers today another outstanding experience of bilingual creativity, the poem Malay Sketches by Sydney author Aisyah Shah Idil, a runner up of the…
Nizaqete Bislimi (Source: DuMont Verlag / Franz Brück) Some of the most striking images from the refugees who have been trekking across Europe are of families and children. Beyond the…
Benz, Victoria. 2015. Dynamics of bilingual early childhood education: Parental attitudes and institutional realisation. PhD. Macquarie University. Victoria Benz recently completed her PhD thesis about “Dynamics of bilingual early childhood education: Parental…
Children in a bilingual program in Hamburg (Source: AlsterKind) It is a key finding of contemporary educational research that the children of migrants experience educational disadvantage vis-à-vis their native-born peers.…
"How bad is your cultural cringe?" (Source: Jenna Guillaume, BuzzFeed) Keith: I’m still really shit at pronouncing Lisa’s surname. With the umlaut o. Hanna: What is Lisa’s surname? (laughter) Keith:…
Preschool in Karlsruhe, Germany (Source: DW) Ever since my research for my 2002 book Bilingual Couples Talk I’ve regularly been told by people – or been asked to confirm their…
Bilingualism has a gender A while ago, I reported on the findings of a US study that demonstrated that children of immigrants who achieve high-level bilingual proficiency in both English…