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…
Click on this image to view video about the role of English and local languages in the educational experiences of Aboriginal children in remote communities Editor's Note: March 21 is…
Top 5 languages spoken in Australia in 2016 (Source: ABS) The Language-on-the-Move team is getting ready to launch a new research project investigating everyday intercultural communication in multilingual and multicultural…
King Sejong the Great (1397-1450) (Image source: Wikipedia) Today, South Koreans celebrate Hangul Day. Hangul Day is a national holiday to celebrate the Korean script. I am not aware of…
Dr Li Jia (4th from right) with her supervisor, Professor Ingrid Piller, and members of the Language-on-the-Move team The Language on the Move team is proud to celebrate another PhD…
One of the consequences of the recent upsurge in nationalist politics around the world has been a rise in attacks on the idea of linguistic diversity. As national language ideologies…
Before starting my PhD in sociolinguistics at Macquarie University, I had the great privilege of being involved in a research project that was run out of Sydney Law School at…
The current global political climate regarding refugees, while always dynamic and complex, has become particularly charged in the last two years as the Syrian civil war and other events in…
Imagine you live under constant scrutiny in society: you are an Australian woman, you come from a Lebanese-Muslim background, and your hijab identifies you wherever you go. How would you…
Our newest PhD, Dr Shiva Motaghi Tabari (3rd from left) The Language on the Move team is proud to announce another freshly-minted PhD in our midst! Dr Shiva Motaghi Tabari…
Manus Island Detention Centre, where Faysal Ishak Ahmed collapsed (Source: ABC News) On December 23, 2016, as most Australians were winding down for the holiday week ahead, Faysal Ishak Ahmed,…
"Good people make a good country" by Addo Tetteh As I am trying to finalize the manuscript for the second revised edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical…
Who of the three women in this image do you think German employers are most likely to consider as a potential employee and call for a job interview? Obviously, the…
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…
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…
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…