In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her 2021 book Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing…
Emily PachecoJuly 30, 2024
Child at annual Mongolian Festival (Naadam) in Sydney (Image credit: What's On) Maintaining their heritage language is paramount for migrants internationally as language is not just a communication tool. It…
Undarmaa MunkhbayarDecember 11, 2023
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
(Image credit: Markus Spiske via Unsplash) Parental engagement is a critical aspect of student achievement When we think about student achievement, we typically think about student qualities: how smart a…
Ingrid PillerDecember 15, 2021
Chinese signage on churches is increasingly prominent in Sydney’s linguistic landscape. These signs are surprising because they are bilingual in a predominantly English monolingual linguistic landscape. They are also surprising…
Ingrid PillerJune 21, 2021
Dr Loy Lising (2nd r.) with members of the SABA collective at the Annual Hazara Academic Awards Night 2021 Editor's note: Members of the Language-on-the-Move research team undertake numerous forms…
Loy LisingMarch 12, 2021
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 to language…
Claire LiveseyDecember 15, 2020
Image credit: Alexander Dummer via Unsplash In the current crisis, when schools and childcare centres may be closed for long periods, many families have to make choices about work and…
Hanna TorshJune 3, 2020
Image credit: NPR Are you a family who speaks a language other than English at home? Do you have a school-aged child who has been learning from home during the…
Language on the MoveMay 21, 2020
ABC Radio National has the perfect holiday treat for language lovers: a 5-part podcast series about multilingualism in Australia. In "Tongue-tied and fluent", Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham (who…
Ingrid PillerDecember 23, 2019
Dr Kerry Taylor-Leech researches early childhood education in an English-Samoan bilingual preschool Early childhood is an important period in the physical, social, emotional, cognitive and linguistic development of a child.…
Ingrid PillerJune 13, 2019
Dr Van Tran, Charles Sturt University, presented this week's Lecture in Linguistic Diversity In Australia almost a quarter of the population speak a language other than English (LOTE) at home…
Ingrid PillerJune 6, 2019
In my work with multilingual families, reading in the home language raises its head on so many levels. It is viewed as a shared family activity in a way that…
Sabine LittleNovember 7, 2018
New Zealand's PM wants to raise her newborn daughter bilingually (Source: radionz) New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, plans to raise her newborn daughter bilingually in Māori and English. Her…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 3, 2018
Dr Fadila Boutouchent during her guest lecture at Macquarie University When she was in kindergarten, my oldest daughter came home one day talking about "our soldiers" who "went to war for…
Hanna TorshAugust 29, 2018
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