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Language costs Language costs

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

USD 254,000: that is the cost of raising two children bilingually in English and German in Denver, Colorado. That’s a lot of money, and inspired me to do some number-crunching of my own. To begin with, it’s a reminder that … Continue reading →

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SSCI journals by country, 2007; Source: Kang 2009, p. 201 Does internationalization change research content?

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

Every linguistics undergraduate student is by now familiar with the fact of linguistic imperialism in academic publishing where the pressure to publish in international journals translates into the pressure to publish in English, leaving researchers from non-English-speaking backgrounds at a … Continue reading →

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Korea_picture The dark side of TESOL

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江

The latest issue of Cross-Cultural Studies (published by the Center for Cross Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea) includes an article about the dark side of TESOL authored by Ingrid Piller, Kimie Takahashi, and Yukinori Watanabe. Based on case studies from … Continue reading →

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japan learn english Language and inflation

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

Some Language-on-the-Movers based here in Sydney had the opportunity to attend Professor Masaki Oda’s lecture about the current state of the English language in Japan yesterday. With major Japanese companies announcing a switch to English as their official company language … Continue reading →

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هشدار: انگلیسی جهانی ممکن است به سلامت روانی شما آسیب برساند

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

Persian version of my recent blog post about the (over-)consumption of English language learning. Translated by زهره قرایی (Zohreh Gharaei)   حدود ده سال پیش یک دانشجوی خارجی که از کره ی جنوبی آمده بود و نزدیک بود درسی را که من … Continue reading →

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