Editor’s note: The language challenges of the COVID-19 crisis have held much of our attention this year. Here on Language on the Move, we have been running a series devoted…
Readability scores of the two selected public service information texts by the NSW Government This morning I googled “nsw corona/covid restrictions”. The top hits all refer to NSW Government websites,…
Diagram of the ‘radial definition routes’ of Panoptic Conjugation (Ogden 1930: 12) A fascinating turn in recent Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) scholarship is the development of 'Minimal English', an international…
My "audience" as I was recording the first online lecture for the new term Yesterday, I spent six hours pre-recording a puny little lecture of 15 minutes for the postgraduate…
Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…
Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…
How do universities in the Philippines prepare accounting students for communication in global workplaces? Watch this research presentation by Pia Tenedero to find out. This presentation was originally intended for…
It’s another International Women’s Day and time to reflect on powerful women: what is most noticeable about them is that there are so few of them. In academia, for instance,…
The following is a summary of my recent article "On the conditions of authority in academic publics" in 14 tweets. The paper was published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics; an…
(Image credit: Psychology Today) Device use is a major contemporary education challenge for parents and teachers alike. In our family, we have fairly strict rules around the use of internet-connected…
For one of my postgraduate courses in Applied Linguistics, I was asked to write an assignment about my language learning history. Recalling all the phases I went through to learn…
A non-fluent Latin reader painstakingly worked her way through this text “Man is an obligate aerobe”, I recently read in a medicine book for general readers (Nuland, 1993). The phrase…
Students of Beijing Normal University who were part of the May Fourth Movement (Image credit: Wikipedia) This month marks the 100th anniversary of China’s May 4 Movement. This intellectual and…
President George W. Bush signs the "No Child Left Behind" act in 2002 (Image credit: Wikipedia) In 2001, the United States government responded to the apparent lack of quality education…
Dr Alex Grey and Melanie Fernando in conversation One of the main reasons why Language on the Move exists is to mentor the next generation of researchers in the sociolinguistics…