Congratulations to Rosemary Kariuki OAM on the publication of her memoir A Joyful Life! The Australian of the Year 2021 Local Hero Awardee and recipient of the Order of Australia…
Vera Williams TettehMarch 20, 2023
(Image credit: Mana Akbarzadegan via Unsplash) When Muhammad* applied for admission to a postgraduate degree at an Australian university, he was asked to show evidence of his English language proficiency.…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 6, 2023
We wish all our readers a peaceful and healthy New Year! It is our pleasure to share “Outcry for Freedom” – our talented team member Dr Shiva Motaghi-Tabari’s new song,…
Language on the MoveDecember 29, 2022
Time flies and it’s time for another Reading Challenge. The annual Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading at the intersection of linguistic diversity and…
Ingrid PillerDecember 26, 2022
Editor’s note: In this reflective post, Dr. Loy Lising shares how she balances the multiple demands placed on academics. As academic workloads have intensified, many feel that the balancing act…
Loy LisingDecember 19, 2022
Prepositions are the unnoticed and underappreciated workhorses of language. They are "grammar words" that indicate relationships. Essentially, their job is to connect other words with bigger and more important meanings.…
Ingrid PillerDecember 12, 2022
Congratulations to Language-on-the-Move team member Dr Laura Smith-Khan, who is the winner of the 2022 Australian Academy of the Humanities’ Max Crawford Medal! The medal is considered Australia’s most prestigious…
Ingrid PillerNovember 28, 2022
For an older English-language version of this post, click here. 教堂的中文 标识在 悉尼的 语言景观 中越来 越突出 在以英 语占绝 对主体 地位的 语言 环境中 这些 双语 的标 识是 引人 注目的 更何况 汉语…
Yining WangNovember 23, 2022
Memorial for Kian Pirfalak at Isfahan University (Source: Twitter) In the Name of the God of the Rainbow, let’s today think about bilingual double vision. Double vision is a condition…
Ingrid PillerNovember 21, 2022
It is probably the least intuitive way of describing accountants, but these number-crunchers are, in fact, also language workers. This part of their professional identity is largely hidden for at…
Pia TenederoNovember 17, 2022
(Image credit: Pexels) Editor’s note: How do children from minoritized backgrounds experience their exclusion from equitable media representation? New research by Adolé Akue-Dovi sheds light on this question from the…
Language on the MoveNovember 14, 2022
The Next Generation Literacies Network will host its 2022 annual workshop on Zoom over 3 days from Nov 30 to Dec 02 - devoted to translanguaging, data sharing in qualitative…
Language on the MoveNovember 9, 2022
Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon interviewing unidentified Yanomami people Editor's note: How do researchers in anthropology and sociology deal with linguistic diversity? Do they learn the language(s) of the people they work…
Language on the MoveOctober 31, 2022
The 2022 Stanford list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists has just been released. It includes 335 linguists. So, I've done some quick number crunching to see who they are…
Ingrid PillerOctober 17, 2022
New documentary explores identity in the linguistic landscape with a focus on Qatar Focusing on official street signs in Qatar written with non-standard Arabic spellings, Mal Lawal explores the complex interplay of…
Rizwan AhmadOctober 11, 2022
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