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Language on the Move is dedicated to language and communication in multicultural and transnational contexts: language learning, multilingualism and intercultural communication, in short, in Language and Communication on the Move (L.CoM)! The blog is part of the sociolinguistics portal www.languageonthemove.org created by Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi. Visit www.languageonthemove.org to find out more about our work.
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- November 3, 2016
- 11:10 PM
- 87 views
Stereotyped ethnic names as a barrier to workplace entry
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Who of the three women in this image do you think German employers are most likely to consider as a...... Read more »
Arai, M., Bursell, M., & Nekby, L. (2016) The Reverse Gender Gap in Ethnic Discrimination: Employer Stereotypes of Men and Women with Arabic Names. International Migration Review, 50(2), 385-412. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12170
Piller, I. (2016) Language at work. Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937240.003.0004
- October 27, 2016
- 02:30 AM
- 128 views
What makes foreigners weird? A quick guide to orientalism
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
One of the central arguments of my book Intercultural Communication is that, even today, much intercultural communication is approached from...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2011) Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. info:/
- October 10, 2016
- 07:15 PM
- 200 views
How States Promote Global English: Shifting Priorities in Education
by Peter Ives in Language on the Move
We are repeatedly told that people around the world are choosing to learn and use English. The media and many...... Read more »
Hu, G. (2005) English Language Education in China: Policies, Progress, and Problems. Language Policy, 4(1), 5-24. DOI: 10.1007/s10993-004-6561-7
- September 29, 2016
- 01:21 AM
- 221 views
Urban sociolinguistics in Dubai
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
A couple of years ago, I mused here on Language on the Move what linguistic theory would look like if...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2016) Dubai: Language in the ethnocratic, corporate and mobile city. Smakman, D. and P. Heinrich. Eds. Metrolinguistics: Urban Language Ecologies around the World. info:/
- September 21, 2016
- 12:46 AM
- 248 views
Can ESL teachers play a role in helping maintain the home language?
by Agnes Bodis in Language on the Move
ESL teachers play an important role in home language maintenance (Image Credit: Macquarie University)
Learning the host country’s language is important for migrants but we should not forget that maintaining the home language is just as essential for the next generation’s success in life. Unfortunately, in Australia there are no policies in place that support the home language maintenance of languages other than English. In the absence of top-down approaches, changing........ Read more »
Schalley, A., Guillemin, D., & Eisenchlas, S. (2015) Multilingualism and assimilationism in Australia's literacy-related educational policies. International Journal of Multilingualism, 12(2), 162-177. DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2015.1009372
- September 14, 2016
- 11:24 PM
- 283 views
Language and migration
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Humans are a migratory species. Although in modern society the dominant imagery we have created about ourselves is that it...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2016) Language and migration. Language and migration, 1-20. info:/
- September 6, 2016
- 12:34 AM
- 332 views
Why a multilingual social imagination matters
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend the 2016 annual conference of the British Association of Applied...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2016) Linguistic Diversity and Participation. Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937240.003.0006
- July 17, 2016
- 04:57 AM
- 437 views
Would you mind if your child wanted to become an interpreter?
by Jinhyun Cho in Language on the Move
I recently volunteered to give a presentation on the profession of translation and interpreting as a parent helper for a...... Read more »
Cho, J. (2015) Sleepless in Seoul: Neoliberalism, English fever, and linguistic insecurity among Korean interpreters. Multilingua, 34(5), 687-710. DOI: 10.1515/multi-2013-0047
- June 5, 2016
- 01:05 AM
- 496 views
Why does English spread in global academia?
by Jinhyun Cho in Language on the Move
The Linguistic Ethnography Forum’s e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s recent book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied...... Read more »
Piller, I., & Cho, J. (2013) Neoliberalism as language policy. Language in Society, 42(01), 23-44. DOI: 10.1017/S0047404512000887
- May 11, 2016
- 01:10 AM
- 560 views
Do monolingual teachers produce a Golem effect in multilingual students?
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher...... Read more »
Babad, E., Inbar, J., & Rosenthal, R. (1982) Pygmalion, Galatea, and the Golem: Investigations of biased and unbiased teachers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 74(4), 459-474. DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.74.4.459
Pulinx, R., Van Avermaet, P., & Agirdag, O. (2015) Silencing linguistic diversity: the extent, the determinants and consequences of the monolingual beliefs of Flemish teachers. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-15. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2015.1102860
- April 28, 2016
- 06:19 AM
- 644 views
Portrait of a linguistic shirker
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
I recently pointed out that the widespread belief that migrants refuse to learn the language of their new country does not stack up against the realities of adult language learning. I summarized the research that shows that adult language learning is complex and difficult and rarely an all-out success; to blame migrants for their failure to learn a new language (well) is adding insult to injury.
The German-language club (“Stammtisch”) in New York founded by G........ Read more »
Azuélos, D. (2008) L'exil dans l'exil Les stratégies linguistiques contradictoires des exilés aux États-Unis (Thomas Mann, Klaus Mann, Hans Sahl, Oskar Maria Graf). Études Germaniques, 252(4), 723. DOI: 10.3917/eger.252.0723
- April 12, 2016
- 06:11 PM
- 637 views
Cleaning work: a stepping-stone or a dead-end job for migrants?
by Maiju Strommer in Language on the Move
Let me at once introduce you to the main character of this blog post: Kifibin. He is a Ugandan man...... Read more »
Strömmer, M. (2015) Affordances and constraints: Second language learning in cleaning work. Multilingua. DOI: 10.1515/multi-2014-0113
- April 6, 2016
- 06:23 AM
- 749 views
The language that cannot speak its name
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Our understanding of the role of language in social life suffers from a particularly intractable problem: the terms we use...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2016) Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937240.003.0005
Vathi, Z., Duci, V., & Dhembo, E. (2016) Homeland (dis)integrations: Educational Experience, Children and Return Migration to Albania. International Migration. DOI: 10.1111/imig.12230
- March 30, 2016
- 03:19 AM
- 626 views
The real problem with linguistic shirkers
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Germany has discovered a new social type that is causing grieve in modern diverse societies: the “Integrationsverweigerer;” literally someone who...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2016) Linguistic diversity and social justice. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937240.003.0003
- March 14, 2016
- 06:10 PM
- 707 views
Crucial communication: language management in Australian asylum interviews
by Laura Smith-Khan in Language on the Move
Asylum seekers in Australia face a few very public hurdles. Successive governments have used increasingly restrictive refugee policies to gain...... Read more »
Smith-Khan, L. (2016) Negotiating narratives, accessing asylum: Evaluating language policy as multi-level practice, beliefs and management. Multilingua. DOI: 10.1515/multi-2015-0072
- March 8, 2016
- 09:22 PM
- 738 views
Temples helping heritage language maintenance in Australia
by Niru Perera in Language on the Move
Do you know which non-Christian religion has grown the fastest in Australia since the new millennium? You might be surprised...... Read more »
Perera, N. (2016) Tamil in the temples – Language and religious maintenance beyond the first generation. Multilingua. info:/10.1515/multi-2015-0059
- March 3, 2016
- 09:01 PM
- 905 views
Herder: an explainer for linguists
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Some contemporary sociolinguists love to hate an 18th century educator, philosopher, theologian, translator and general polymath by the name of...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2015) Monolingual ways of seeing multilingualism. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 1-9. DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2015.1102921
- February 9, 2016
- 05:40 PM
- 760 views
Alles in Ordnung? Reflections on German order
by Rahel Cramer in Language on the Move
Everyone who has learned a second language will have noticed that certain words and expressions cannot be translated easily from...... Read more »
Cramer, R. (2015) German Ordnung: A semantic and ethnopragmatic analysis of a core cultural value . International Journal of Language and Culture, 2(2), 269-293. DOI: 10.1075/ijolc.2.2.06cra
- January 26, 2016
- 06:18 PM
- 636 views
Ways of seeing
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Here in Australia we celebrated our national holiday yesterday. Australia Day marks the end of the summer holiday season and as everyone heads back to school and work, Language on the Move is coming back from our break, too. Welcome … Continue reading →... Read more »
Piller, I. (2015) Monolingual ways of seeing multilingualism. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 1-9. DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2015.1102921
- December 8, 2015
- 04:43 PM
- 1,000 views
Discrimination by any other name: Language tests and racist migration policy in Australia
by Laura Smith-Khan in Language on the Move
Australia has a proud national narrative of migration and multiculturalism. It also has an equally prevalent history of exclusionary and discriminatory migration policy. Perhaps the most famous is its “White Australia Policy”, which sought to restrict the migration of “non-European” … Continue reading →... Read more »
McNamara, T. (2012) Language Assessments as Shibboleths: A Poststructuralist Perspective. Applied Linguistics, 33(5), 564-581. DOI: 10.1093/applin/ams052
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