ESL teachers play an important role in home language maintenance (Image Credit: Macquarie University) Learning the host country’s language is important for migrants but we should not forget that maintaining…
Agnes BodisSeptember 21, 2016
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…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 6, 2016
From inside Jaume Plensa's House of Knowledge, Bordeaux, France (Photo by Shirley Yeung) In much of Western and Northern Europe, we find ourselves in the wake of a widespread retreat…
Mi-Cha Flubacher and Shirley YeungAugust 29, 2016
The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin Imagine you want to study language diversity as a phenomenon of contemporary society. Where do you start? You can, for example, ask teachers to count…
Britta SchneiderAugust 22, 2016
The New Books Network has just published an interview with Ingrid Piller about her new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. The host of the show, Chris Cummins, sums up the…
Lg_on_the_moveAugust 4, 2016
Front of postcard sent by Private Jacob Isak Sicherman on 1 June 1916 Remember library stacks? Browsing among books? Serendipitously finding on a nearby shelf what you didn’t know you…
Carol SichermanJuly 28, 2016
Publishing house De Gruyter Mouton is celebrating their stellar performance in the 2015 Impact Factor ratings by giving you the opportunity to explore De Gruyter’s top 10 social sciences impact…
Lg_on_the_moveJuly 22, 2016
Images of glamorous interpreters in the recent Chinese movie “Les Interprètes” (Source: dramafever.com) I recently volunteered to give a presentation on the profession of translation and interpreting as a parent…
Jinhyun ChoJuly 17, 2016
Supposedly Kriol signage at Rapid Creek, Darwin When I shared this Kriol sign on Facebook as an example of a bad Kriol translation, a first language Kriol speaker commented: Im…
Greg DicksonJune 30, 2016
One way of looking at the outcome of the British referendum is to understand it as an act of self-sabotage: "...and in the end, Britain, which had colonized the world,…
Ingrid PillerJune 25, 2016
Demand action from our politicians to make a LOTE compulsory! The state of language learning in Australian schools is dire. This weekend the Sydney Morning Herald carried an article entitled “Why students are…
Ingrid PillerJune 15, 2016
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Lg_on_the_moveJune 10, 2016
The Linguistic Ethnography Forum’s e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s recent book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics is currently running. Some discussions so far are concerned…
Jinhyun ChoJune 5, 2016
We are excited to have been selected as a 2016 Top 100 Language Professional Blog by the Language Lovers at Lexiophiles and bab.la. If you enjoy Language on the Move, please do…
Lg_on_the_moveMay 20, 2016
Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher expectations result in students’ lower academic performance. The positive effect…
Ingrid PillerMay 11, 2016
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