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Language and migration

Getting past the ‘indigenous’ vs. ‘immigrant’ language debate

"The English" migrated to their "ancestral homeland" in the first few centuries of the Common Era (Source: Wikipedia) “Indigenous languages” and “immigrant languages” are much discussed in language policy research,…
English as a global language

Language and inflation

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…
Language and social justice

Why a multilingual social imagination matters

Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend the 2016 annual conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. In my…
Language learning
The ethics of saving endangered languages
Language in Australia
Heritage language education in Australia and Sweden
Multilingual families
Bilingual parenting in the early years
English as a global language
انگلیسی، آن نا-زبان
Intercultural communication
Start learning Esperanto now!
Language in Australia
Not pork but bacon