PASCH Schools: Partners for the future Last week I was privileged to attend the 3rd Conference of School Principals of PASCH Schools in Southeast Asia. A ‘PASCH school’ is a regular…
Ingrid PillerOctober 21, 2014
Multilingua has just published a special issue devoted to Researching multilingualism and superdiversity: Grassroots actions and responsibilities guest-edited by Li Wei. Multilingua Volume 33, Issue 5-6 Researching multilingualism and superdiversity:…
Lg_on_the_moveOctober 10, 2014
A locutorio shop front in Barcelona (Source: El Periodico) There is now a well-established body of work exploring the language work provided by service workers in call centres and tourist…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 22, 2014
Graduating students at Anadolu University (Source: Anadolu University) The process of internationalization of education has been a pivotal issue across the world, in particular with regards to the higher…
Ali KarakasAugust 27, 2014
Linguistic diversity in Sydney (Source: Sydney Morning Herald) The media in Anglophone countries regularly engage in a bit of a bragfest about the linguistic diversity of their cities. In Sydney,…
Ingrid PillerAugust 20, 2014
For international students, it's sink or swim (Image source: luvimages.com) It is one of the basic findings of decades of research in bilingual education that language submersion is not a…
Ingrid PillerAugust 6, 2014
German International School Sydney It is one of the great narratives of our time that the market will fix everything. In education this means that parental choice is assumed to…
Ingrid PillerJuly 31, 2014
Language needs in the hospitality sector in Pallars Sobirà, Catalonia (Source: paddleinspain.com) Multilingualism means business. The more foreign language skills are availalble to a company, the better it will be…
Javier Cañas Villarreal and Lola Pérez ValdésJuly 15, 2014
Auburn parking ticket (left: quadrilingual on back; right: city logo on front) In Australia with its persistent monolingual mindset coming across any kind of official institutional multilingual communication always feels…
Ingrid PillerJuly 7, 2014
Sydney Language Festival 2014 The Sydney Language Festival will take place in Redfern on Saturday 5th July. For details visit here. What is a language festival? A language festival is…
Nicole ElseJune 29, 2014
Yangshuo's West Street (Source: chinatravelca) Tourism has been found to be beneficial for minority language maintenance in a number of contexts from around the world. For instance, Anand Torrents Alcaraz…
Ingrid PillerJune 23, 2014
Multilingual Europe Multilingua has just published a special issue devoted to English in the language ecology of “high proficiency” European countries guest-edited by Andrew Linn and Chryso Hadjimdemtriou. Multilingua 33…
Lg_on_the_moveJune 15, 2014
Schneider, Britta. 2014. Salsa, Language and Transnationalism. Multilingual Matters. In my post on English in Berlin, I wondered what is required for a language to become ‘local’, and about the…
Britta SchneiderJune 11, 2014
Website of the German Club Montevideo, founded in 1866 The current issue of Begegnung (“Encounter”), the magazine of German International Schools, has a feature about the German School in Montevideo,…
Ingrid PillerJune 4, 2014
Actress Noemí Busquets as the wise yet naughty Esperanceta Gassia at the Ecomuseu de les Valls d’Àneu during the theatrical night visit to the ethnographic museum of Esterri d’ Àneu…
Anand Torrents AlcarazMay 27, 2014
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