Ingrid Piller is invited to give a special lecture, entitled "Migrants, Language and Social Inclusion", at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, on September 22nd. Her talk is part of the Waseda University Liberal…
Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江July 19, 2010
Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Italian version of my blog post about Chinglish. Translated by Emanuela Moretto Per un attimo provate a pensare che il New York Times abbia…
Ingrid PillerJuly 18, 2010
We are thrilled to announce that Lachlan's first blog post with Language on the Move has made it on the Editor's Selection at Researchblogging.org! Congratulations, Lockie! Read his award winning post…
Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江July 18, 2010
Persian version of my recent blog post about the (over-)consumption of English language learning. Translated by زهره قرایی (Zohreh Gharaei) حدود ده سال پیش یک دانشجوی خارجی که از کره ی…
Ingrid PillerJuly 14, 2010
In 2009, I contributed a chapter about the social inclusion of migrants in Australia to an edited book about immigration policy published in Japanese in Japan. The book is doing…
Ingrid PillerJuly 11, 2010
When I lived in Abu Dhabi, I once visited a university in another Middle Eastern country. As part of the visit I did a guest lecture about my research, I…
Ingrid PillerJuly 9, 2010
Language-on-the-Move is growing up! In the eight months since we started Language-on-the-Move, the site has grown beyond our wildest dreams: On our blog we’ve created an enormous amount of content…
Ingrid PillerJuly 7, 2010
“Japanese guys aren’t the most popular creatures on earth when it comes to romance. Sad but true.” That’s the claim of Meiko Mochizuki Swartz, self-professed bilingual, bicultural ‘expert’ and author…
Lachlan JacksonJuly 7, 2010
Rashid is an overseas graduate student at an Australian university. He is a Muslim from the Middle East, and this is the story of how he inadvertently ate pork during…
Ingrid PillerJune 26, 2010
Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Persian version of my recent blog post about Chinglish Translated by Tahmineh Tayebi (تهمینه طیبی) & Vahid Parvaresh (وحید پرورش) تصور کنید که…
Ingrid PillerJune 21, 2010
As someone who is concerned about Australia’s monolingual mindset and the damage it does to individuals and our society as a whole, I probably should have been pleased to discover…
Ingrid PillerJune 17, 2010
In his recent post “Accent and History,” Khan asked whether it’s possible to escape the prison of our accent and our language. Looking at the civil war and humanitarian disaster…
Ingrid PillerJune 15, 2010
This is the story of a young Pakistani man, let’s call him Reza. Reza spent his early years in what was then East-Pakistan and what is today a different country,…
Muhammad Ali KhanJune 10, 2010
Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Korean version of my recent blog post about Chinglish Translated by Sun-Young Chung (정선영) 뉴욕타임즈가 독자들로부터 그들의 재미난 금발머리 농담이나 유색인종 사람과 관련된 배꼽…
Ingrid PillerJune 7, 2010
If you are a student or a guest researcher (like me) in Berlin and you need to get or renew a visa or need to change your visa status, you…
Emily FarrellJune 4, 2010
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