One of the Nowruz traditions involves leaping over bonfires to rid oneself of pain and sorrow (Image credit: Borna News) As people in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,…
Ramadan Lights on Coventry Street Ramadan in London is exceptional in many ways. As the centre of a former Empire which still exerts a global pull on its former subjects…
Video available at Faculti: https://faculti.net/like-the-fish-not-in-water/ Editor's note: Despite its diversity, Australia continues to be imagined as a White nation. In this post, which is also available as a 20-minute video,…
Language on the Move has launched a podcast We are delighted to share an exciting new development: Language on the Move has partnered with the New Books Network (NBN) to…
Ana Bruzon presenting her PhD research at ECREA conference in Rotterdam As a third-year PhD candidate in the Linguistics Department at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, I recently had the awe-inspiring…
Master of Applied Linguistics and TESOL students at Macquarie University (Image credit: Jung Ung Hwang) As pre-pandemic levels of migration have been restored or exceeded, international students are once again…
Alia Amir's grandfather with his three daughters, ca. 1950 (Copyright: Alia Amir) I admire people, who, on the move, maintain and transfer their heritage languages to the next generations. By…
Dr Pia Tenedero, Prof Ingrid Gogolin, and Ana Bruzon (ltr.) during the NGL network conference "Do not ask for free drinking water in Germany!" This was a travel tip I…
Map of Transoxania (Source: Wikipedia) Editor’s note: Arabic language learning is experiencing a revival in many parts of the world, such as China, where it may be a source of…
The Next Generation Literacies Network is hosting its network conference devoted to “Social Participation in Linguistically Diverse Societies” at Hamburg University this week. I take this opportunity to share my…
I am one of Ingrid and Kimie’s PhD students. My research deals with second language learning and African resettlement in Australia. For my first guest blog, I would like to…
Multilingual provision is cheaper than English-Only
Hiroshi Mikitani, Englishnization in Marketplace 3.0 (Source: gettyimages.co.uk) The business and self-help section of my local Kinokuniya bookstore is currently featuring shelves and shelves of Marketplace 3.0: Rewriting the rules…
Easter chocolates in the supermarket (Image credit: Wikimedia) I’ve been thinking a lot about chocolate lately. Maybe because it is Easter and supermarkets in my part of the world…
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