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Language in Australia

Being Chinese in Australia

  Passport photos of early Chinese immigrants (Source: Invisible Australians) For most Chinese migrants, China is what they call home. China is the basis on which they establish a sense…
Multilingual histories

Providing bilingual education since 1689

Commemorative stamp, German Federal Post, 1989: 300 years French School Berlin I’ve been teaching about bilingualism for more than a decade and when I speak about bilingual education and dual-immersion…
Linguistic landscapes

The f-word on the move

Installment #7 in the mini-series on multilingual signage When I lived in Basel in Switzerland, my then-preschool child was just learning to make sense of the alphabet and to sound…
English-Only at Bon Secours
Language at work
English-Only at Bon Secours
Language and law
How Judges Think About Language
Chats in Linguistic Diversity
Gestures and Emblems
Linguistic landscapes
Sacred Font, Profane Purpose
Intercultural communication
One Orientalism or many Orientalisms?
Language in education
Children of the harvest: schooling, class and race