Professors Piller and Dong Gong Xi Fa Cai! All good wishes for the Year of the Snake! The Chinese New Year holiday brought a lovely opportunity to receive a visit…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 29, 2025
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Jia Li, Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at Yunnan University, China. Tazin and Jia discuss crisis…
Tazin AbdullahJanuary 22, 2025
*** Anna Dillon and Sarah Hopkyns *** Figure 1: Sarah (in black) and Anna (in purple) at Abrahamic Family House As friends and fellow sociolinguists, we, Anna and Sarah, have…
Sarah HopkynsJanuary 17, 2025
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Gerald Roche, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Media, and Philosophy at La Trobe…
Tazin AbdullahJanuary 14, 2025
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Sue Ollerhead about an article that Sue has recently written for the Australian Association for Research in Education…
Brynn QuickJanuary 9, 2025
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Alexandra Grey about Dr. Grey’s book entitled Language Rights in a Changing China: A National Overview…
Brynn QuickJanuary 1, 2025
The author team of "Life in a New Language" “This year was average; worse than the year before but better than next year.” I am reminded of this saying each…
Ingrid PillerDecember 30, 2024
Book reading is an important part of individual and social wellbeing (Image copyright: Sadami Konchi) Each year, I survey my Literacies students about their reading and writing activities. Over the…
Ingrid PillerDecember 27, 2024
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Laura Smith-Khan about language and accents in children’s media, from Octonauts to Disney to Bluey, and…
Brynn QuickDecember 24, 2024
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Hannah White, a Postdoc researcher at Macquarie University in the Department of Linguistics. She completed…
Brynn QuickDecember 19, 2024
Screenshot of passenger being placed under suspicion on "Border Security" Anyone who has ever travelled to or from Australia will agree that the last thing you want after getting off…
Laura Smith-KhanDecember 9, 2024
Prof Catherine Travis launches "Life in a New Language" at ALS2024 The annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) is a gathering of like-minded academics and presents a wonderful…
Loy LisingDecember 3, 2024
*** By Maria Regina P. Arriero and Pia Tenedero *** Each year, we celebrate Buwan ng Wika or (National) Language Month in the Philippines. Formerly focused only on the Filipino…
Pia TenederoNovember 25, 2024
How can school communications become more accessible to multilingual families? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, I speak to Professor Margaret Kettle about the Multilingual Glossary…
Agnes BodisNovember 20, 2024
How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, I speak with Dr Clara Holzinger (University of Vienna)…
Ingrid PillerNovember 17, 2024
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