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Language on the Move
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Linguistic diversity in social life

By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"

https://www.languageonthemove.org/

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Ingrid Piller is an Australian linguist, who specializes in intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and bilingual education. Piller is Distinguished Professor at Macquarie University and an elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Piller serves as Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Multilingua and as founding editor of the research dissemination site Language on the Move. She is a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts. .. more

Communication & Media Studies 41%
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 15h
🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 4d
Germany has a "Shared Reading Day" 😍 - Vorlesetag!
Great opportunity to join the fun and read to a child in your life!
This year's Vorlesetag is even dedicate to multilingual reading!
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Shared Reading Day 2025
Editor’s note: Shared reading – the practice where adults read to children – has many benefits: it improves children’s language and literacy development, as well as their in…
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 4d
Wait - what? Why?

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Zgur (le même mais sans le _ , BlueSky n'en veut pas) @zgur.bsky.social · 5d
REMINDER : ALL modern infrastructure evolution 2003-2025

#Cloudflare

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Tazin Abdullah @tazinabdullah.bsky.social · 6d
“Multilingual learners do not need us to fix their English…but they need us to design learning where their full linguistic repertoires are seen as an asset.”
Insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast [email protected] speaks with Cindy Valdez!
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Your languages are your superpower!
In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Cindy Valdez, an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) specialist, and Founder & CEO of Teach To Learn, a…
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 7d
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”

Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au

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Hanna Torsh @htorsh.bsky.social · 7d
Great first day of the ALAA (Australian Association of Applied Linuguistics) conference here in at CDU in Darwin, Northern Terrtitory. The conference theme is: Language and the interface of mono-/multi-/translingual mindsets.

The Macquarie Linguistics crew is ready! @languageonthemove.bsky.social

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 8d
In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, @agib.bsky.social chats with Cindy Valdez about how to best support the education of multilingual children
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Your languages are your superpower!
In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Cindy Valdez, an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) specialist, and Founder & CEO of Teach To Learn, a…
www.languageonthemove.com

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lauraskh.bsky.social · 11d
@mcanzanella.bsky.social is another member of the Language on the Move starter pack. He spoke with @tazinabdullah.bsky.social . I learned so much from this podcast ep about three Neapolitan language, and was inspired by Massimiliano's incredible scholarship and activism
Lingua Napoletana and language oppression
Have you ever heard of Lingua Napoletana or Neapolitan, the language of Naples? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks to Massimiliano Canzanella, a Neapolitan l…
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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 12d
🎧 Author Interview: Ingrid Piller joins @languageonthemove.bsky.social
 to discuss the third edition of our popular textbook, Intercultural Communication!

 Delve into the podcast: 
Intercultural Communication - New Books Network
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12d
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 14d
@marcosantello.bsky.social

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 14d
Thank you so much, Laura! Here's another lot to add :)
@drsarahhopkyns.bsky.social @theresaheyd.bsky.social @emilyjfarrell.bsky.social @jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social @emanusydney.bsky.social @zabanwala.bsky.social @petterilai.bsky.social @johannaennser.bsky.social @mixedlinguist.bsky.social

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 14d
Exciting news: 6 new research fellows have joined Ingrid Piller's @humboldt-foundation.de Professor team @uni-hamburg.de
Meet them at www.languageonthemove.com/introducing-...
Welcome @schenior.bsky.social @marakyrou.bsky.social @juaninlanguage.bsky.social @nicolemarinaro.bsky.social 🤗
Introducing the Humboldt Professorship team
Attentive readers will remember that in May this year we advertised six doctoral and postdoctoral positions to conduct research related to “Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the …
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 16d
So sweet to discover that "Linguistic diversity and social justice" is part of someone's holiday memories 🤩
juaninlanguage.bsky.social Der Juan @juaninlanguage.bsky.social · Oct 2
Wishing to go back to those days in May.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lauraskh.bsky.social · 20d
@schenior.bsky.social has just begun a post-doc with Ingrid Piller (@languageonthemove.bsky.social) at Hamburg, with a bunch of other cool people. Follow her for research, stay for the book reviews 😀

Project overview here
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 21d
New on Language-on-the-Move: the native speaker is dead and everything but, even so, there is such a thing as native listening and explicit instruction matters in language learning, as Andrea Pešková explains
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Native listening and learning new sounds
I hear what you don’t hear Have you ever listened to a language you don’t know and thought you recognized a word—only to realize later that you were completely mistaken? Our ears play tricks on us.…
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 28d
It's useful to recognise that, just 3 years ago, the UK government made it a specific CRIMINAL OFFENCE to procure a live person to complete university coursework for a student, but that government, and all major institutions, are now saying the use of a machine to complete such work is inevitable.

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 28d
New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: Alex Grey speaks with Zoe Avery (AIATSIS) about the 4th National Indigenous Languages Survey
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Australia’s National Indigenous Languages Survey
In this podcast, Dr Alexandra Grey speaks with Zoe Avery, a Worimi woman and a Research Officer at the Centre for Australian Languages within the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Stra…
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 28d
The full story is in the book - based on research with 130 migrants to Australia from 34 countries over 20 years:

academic.oup.com/book/57356
Life in a New Language
Abstract. International migration is at an all-time high as ever more people move across national borders for work or study, in search of refuge or adventu
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 28d
3 tips for Life in a New Language:

1. It’s not just about language
2. Find allies and embrace the growing pains
3. You are playing a long-term game: fluency and belonging may not come as quickly as you’d hoped but they are achievable

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Language Expert Ingrid Piller Shares 3 Tips for Life in a New Language
Podcast Episode · All Ears English Podcast · 10/28/2025 · 20m
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Oct 26
Textbook example of the perennial power move to delegitimize the content of what someone is saying by focusing on the way they say it.
Also, English native speakerism is making a comeback in international communication ...

www.youtube.com/shorts/RqIh7...
Trump: “Israel’s not going to do anything with the West Bank”
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
www.youtube.com

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Oct 24
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Oct 22
nuh, but have you checked out @atlasobscura.com?

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Oct 22
Exciting :) Glückwunsch und viel Spaß!

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Oct 22
Interested in literacy in multilingual contexts?

Consider joining this new international research network under the auspices of the World Education Research Association

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Literacy in Multilingual Contexts
The World Education Research Association (WERA) recently announced the launch of seven new International Research Networks (IRNs) and we are pleased to share that “Literacy in Multilingual Co…
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Oct 22
on the basis of what they had lying around? ;)

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Oct 21
different fliers ... (not translation)

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Oct 15
Sydney-based teachers needed for short survey about language brokering in schools - when children serve as interpreters for their parents

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Language brokering in schools
Are you a Sydney-based teacher who needs to communicate with parents who do not speak English or do not speak it well? Do you sometimes have to ask students to translate for you to communicate with…
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