I’m one of the comparatively unlucky few swimming against the global linguistic tide. I’m a mother tongue speaker of English, “the” global language. That means if I want to become…
Christof Demont-HeinrichApril 3, 2012
ZUEL, WuhanIntercultural Literacy, Communication, and Competence in the Context of Multiculturalism Nov 16-18, 2012, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China The Foreign Languages School of Zhongnan University of…
Zhang Jie 张洁March 22, 2012
Cabramatta, Australia Last week an email was sent around my office about our upcoming Harmony Day celebration on 21 March. The email suggested that to mark the occasion, interested staff could…
Sheila PhamMarch 21, 2012
Very best wishes for a happy, healthy and successful New Year to everyone celebrating Norouz!
Lg_on_the_moveMarch 20, 2012
Applied Linguistics @MQ Seminar Series will live stream Lisa Fairbrother's seminar, "Experiences of ‘being different’ in Tokyo: an examination of the effects of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ on intercultural interactions in Japan" , 12…
Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江March 13, 2012
The next seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held next week: Linguistic diversity and social justice Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University Abstract: My…
Ingrid PillerMarch 12, 2012
Editor's note, 22/01/2014: One of the joys of running Language on the Move is to experience its international collaborative reach in action. Two years ago, one of our readers, Olya Belenkaya, asked…
Ingrid PillerMarch 7, 2012
Update: Change of venue to W6B 301 Conferencing Rm The next seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held next week: Experiences of ‘being…
Lg_on_the_moveMarch 6, 2012
I’m not a big fan of what I call “breathless academic postmodernism,” or what I view as the often naïve valorization of, among other things, hybridization, creolization, liminality, polysemy, multiplicity,…
Christof Demont-HeinrichMarch 3, 2012
Have you recently had a manicure or a pedicure? I haven’t. In fact, I’ve never been to a nail salon in my life. Until about a decade ago that would…
Ingrid PillerFebruary 27, 2012
Hungarians in RomaniaUp until a few decades ago, the academic consensus – along with public opinion – was that bilingualism is detrimental to the individual and society. Nowadays, that has…
Ingrid PillerFebruary 20, 2012
Ever since I left my native village in the Bavarian Forest more than 25 years ago, I have been returning for regular, even if infrequent, visits. Over the years, there…
Ingrid PillerFebruary 15, 2012
The first seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held next week: Visual conversations online: New uses of photo, video and graphics in…
Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 14, 2012
We are phasing out our manual e-mail newsletter. There are now these easy ways to stay in touch and to keep abreast of what's happening at Language on the move. -…
Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 12, 2012
It is now widely agreed that human beings have moved into a phase of modernity in which they have to tackle the extreme dynamism in modern institutions and provide an…
Vahid ParvareshFebruary 11, 2012
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