Editor's note: Language learning and teaching is rarely about language alone. Sometimes, it is about making a political statement and taking a soft power approach, as Jeffrey Gil and Minglei…
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…
Figure 1: Bilingual Squamish and English placard in West Vancouver’s Park Royal shopping village As the Covid-19 pandemic heads toward its third year, with the Omicron variant in full swing,…
The South China-Laos-Thailand region with the new railway line (Source: South China Morning Post) Language learning through watching films and playing videogames is a new trend. This kind of informal…
The heroic EDG esports winning team of League of Legends Chinese esports team Edward Gaming, or EDG for short, has just won the first ever Leagues of Legend (LoL) world…
LI Jia and LI Yongzhen, Yunnan University *** The Hani are one of the officially recognized ethnic minorities in China, and can also be found across the border in Myanmar,…
Chinese signage on churches is increasingly prominent in Sydney’s linguistic landscape. These signs are surprising because they are bilingual in a predominantly English monolingual linguistic landscape. They are also surprising…
Editor’s note: The Language on the Move team is delighted to announce the publication of Language Rights in a Changing China, a new book by our member Dr Alexandra Grey. To celebrate…
LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor’s note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…
LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor’s note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…
LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor's note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…
A herder guards the Mongolian script (Image credit: Ayin) As the danger of life-threatening Covid-19 has subsided, Mongols in Inner Mongolia, a region of northern China, have faced a new…
Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a major shift in global linguistic and cultural flows. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Jeffrey…
Muslim women praying in a Minquan mosque While everyone knows that China is now the second largest economy in the world, few people realize that there are still over five…
Wei Duan introduces herself to a group of Bangladeshi students at Yunnan University As a postgraduate student at Yunnan University in Southwest China, I have been conducting a longitudinal ethnography…