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Bilingual parenting in the early years
As a parent you know how complicated it is to find a childcare centre for your children: you have a mental list of must-haves and no-goes; you browse the web; you check out centres; you put your name...
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Linguistic diversity and “cosmopolitan bias”
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 are increasingly...
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Feeling weird using your home language?
Fliers for Persian community events (Persian Library Parramatta, Nov 2010) Editor’s note: In the second instalment in our series “Explorations in Language Shaming”, Dr Shiva Motaghi-Tabari examines...
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Seminar about Minority Languages
Map of European languages (Source: SB Language Maps) Invitation to public seminar about “Minority Languages” at Macquarie University What: Minority languages: what are we talking about? And why are we...
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From Minority Languages to Minoritized Languages
The national language is the mother tongue of the vast majority of citizens in most European states (Source: Josu Amezaga, MQ Lecture, 22-11-2017) Last week, Professor Josu Amezaga from the University...
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Australians speaking Asian
“Fremdschämen” is a German word that means being embarrassed on behalf of someone else. In Australia, this feeling is frequently induced by the behavior of our politicians. Yesterday, public...
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Fences, language and education
Building the Danish boar fence (Image credit: NDR) Fences are popular these days: not only in the US with its border-wall-to-Mexico saga but also in Denmark, which recently started to build a fence to...
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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...
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How to improve Australia’s public health messaging about Covid-19
Exterior of a pub at an intersection in the shopping hub of Burwood, a highly diverse suburb of Sydney Editor’s note: Do public health messages about the Covid-19 pandemic match the linguistic profile...
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The quality of COVID-19 communication is a test of social cohesion
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 aspects of the...
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From language barriers to linguistic resources in COVID safe business...
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 aspects of the...
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Monolingual school websites as barriers to parent engagement
(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...
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Care, inclusion, and resistance in Covid linguistic landscapes
Figure 1: Bilingual Squamish and English placard in West Vancouver’s Park Royal shopping village As the Covid-19 pandemic heads toward its third year, with the Omicron variant in full swing, there is...
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Heritage language education in Australia and Sweden
What stops Australia from doing something like Sweden has done to promote multilingualism? Is it too hard to implement mother tongue instruction in the education system of Australia? On the occasion of...
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Linguistic Inclusion Today
***This page was updated on Dec 05, 2023. Presentation abstracts are now available at the bottom of this page.*** Join us on Thursday, December 14, at Macquarie University for a workshop to explore...
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Legal literacy in a linguistically diverse society
Moving to a new country involves a lot of learning. Not least important is developing an understanding of local laws. This is essential to avoid breaking the law but is also fundamental to full...
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