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Language and migration

Home is where I’m alienated*

Pakistani flour mill workers recovering from a near-fatal lung infection due to poor occupational health and safety conditions, West Ham Hospital, 1960s (Source: Qureshi 2012, p. 7) To be transnational…
English as a global language

Taiwan’s love affair with American English

Ad for a private English language school in Taiwan: the normalization of American English is obvious in the name and imagery There is no denying the fact that English has…
Language learning

Are bilinguals better language learners?

Professor Peter Siemund, Hamburg University, during his guest lecture at Macquarie University It is easy to assume that bilinguals are better at adding another language to their repertoire. But is…
Language in Australia
English language proficiency and national cohesion
Language in Australia
Beyond Harmony Day
Language in Australia
Holiday treat for language lovers
Language and law
The ethics of collecting data in public space
Language learning
Linguistic extremism
English as a global language
Internationalization as Englishization