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Children in traditional costume at annual Mongolian Festival (Nadaam) in Sydney (Image credit: What’s On)
Multilingual families

How to maintain Mongolian in Australia?

Child at annual Mongolian Festival (Naadam) in Sydney (Image credit: What's On) Maintaining their heritage language is paramount for migrants internationally as language is not just a communication tool. It…
Language in education

Schooling challenges of multilingual children

Colours of the alphabet February 21 is International Mother Language Day and serves as an opportunity to discuss and promote the use of first-language medium education. The United Nations Educational,…
Language and migration

Refugees in the media: Villains and victims

The current global political climate regarding refugees, while always dynamic and complex, has become particularly charged in the last two years as the Syrian civil war and other events in…
Ingrid Piller in conversation with Steve Price on 2GB Radio
Language in Australia
Should Australians learn another language?
Language and migration
Meet the people behind “Life in a new language”
Linguistic landscapes
Visit to Abrahamic Family House
Language in education
Does a language have to be European to be ‘modern’?
Teachers Against Discrimination in Taiwan
Language learning
Teachers Against Discrimination in Taiwan
Language and social justice
The native speaker concept