The COVID Pandemic, the most disruptive event since the Second World War, is a good example of a wicked problem. It has multiple, interrelated aspects, and every time we take…
Image 1 Like many parents of teenagers, I delightedly welcome any occasion to connect with a generation I don’t always understand and that doesn’t always understand me. As a Muslim…
LI, Jia & HE, Bin, Yunnan University *** ‘The Glory’, a Korean drama, has ranked the top among the ten most watched TV and films since its release on March…
On this year’s International Mother Language Day, the UN is encouraging us to reflect on the role of technology in multilingual learning. Here, we are looking at the role of…
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 to language…
Gerald Roche (Senior Research Fellow, La Trobe University) and Jakelin Troy (Director, Indigenous Research, The University of Sydney) *** Source: Australian Museum Editor’s note: This week (Nov 08-15) we are…
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…
Editor’s note: The Covid-19 crisis has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of the…
Editor’s note: Covid-19 has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis…
Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a renewed focus on linguistic diversity and the way it intersects with social inclusion. In this latest contribution to our series of language…
Sue Ollerhead, Lecturer (Languages Education), Macquarie University, Australia Shepi Mati: Lecturer (Radio) Rhodes University, South Africa Monica Hendricks: Director: Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, South…
(Image credit: Psychology Today) Device use is a major contemporary education challenge for parents and teachers alike. In our family, we have fairly strict rules around the use of internet-connected…
English is the mother tongue of the Internet, or so it seems. English is omnipresent in the architecture of this breakthrough technology. You see it in the QWERTY keyboard, domain…
Map of European languages (Source: SB Language Maps) Invitation to public seminar about "Minority Languages" at Macquarie University What: Minority languages: what are we talking about? And why are we…
This latest exploration in language shaming examines a language shame campaign on the internet and shows how it is used as a tool to suppress political debate and women’s public…
A monument near Baganuur (Outer Mongolia) with an inscription of poem "My Native Land" by Natsagdorj (Source: Wikipedia) In the middle school Mongolian textbooks there is a well-known text called…