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Monolingualism is bad for the economy
Losing their heritage language decreases the earning potential of 2nd-generation migrants In most countries of immigration, linguistic diversity is by and large ignored by policy makers. If there are...
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Emergency service provision in linguistically diverse societies
The challenges of providing equitable services in linguistically diverse societies A few years ago, emergency service provision to speakers of languages other than English in Australia came under...
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Ingrid Piller in Japanese: ピラー著書 刊行のお知らせ
４月９日刊行予定『異文化コミュニケーションを問いなおす』イングリッド・ピラー[著] カバー・帯写真：渡邊リカルドWe are thrilled to announce that the Japanese translation of Ingrid Piller’s bestselling book Intercultural Communication: A Critical...
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Multilingual mismatch
Auburn parking ticket (left: quadrilingual on back; right: city logo on front) In Australia with its persistent monolingual mindset coming across any kind of official institutional multilingual...
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How the presence of a bilingual school changes the linguistic profile of a...
German International School Sydney It is one of the great narratives of our time that the market will fix everything. In education this means that parental choice is assumed to improve education....
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Language deficit in super-diversity
Linguistic diversity in Sydney (Source: Sydney Morning Herald) The media in Anglophone countries regularly engage in a bit of a bragfest about the linguistic diversity of their cities. In Sydney, where...
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Partnering for the Future
PASCH Schools: Partners for the future Last week I was privileged to attend the 3rd Conference of School Principals of PASCH Schools in Southeast Asia. A ‘PASCH school’ is a regular secondary school...
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Bilingual students at the crossroads
Livia and her classmates at a crossroads the year before entering (or not) Gymnasium (Switzerland, 2004) Secondary education as a monolingual fork in the road Let me bust a prevalent urban myth: You do...
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Linguistic diversity and social inclusion in Australia
2012 workshop on ‘Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia’ at Macquarie University How does language intersect with social inclusion in contemporary Australia? Do social inclusion...
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Lost in bilingual parenting
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken (Source: quotesnpoems.com) It is not unusual for bilingual parents to experience a sense of bewilderment when it comes to language choice in the family. When raising a...
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What’s in a name?
Annastacia Palaszczuk and members of her family (Source: Couriermail) Would Kirk Douglas be a Hollywood legend if he had kept his birth name Issur Danielovitch? Would Bob Dylan have achieved global...
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Plurilingual pre-service teachers
Linguistic diversity is valued in this school (Photo Courtesy of Angela Turzynski-Azimi) ‘What’s your nash, miss?’ Plurilingual pre-service teachers preparing to teach in Sydney schools What is it like...
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Dodgy data and language misdiagnosis
2014 NAPLAN Year 3 Numeracy test results by language status In Australia the results of last year’s round of student and school performance on national standardized testing have just been published. As...
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Paying lip-service to diversity
Diversity in early childhood education: valued or silenced? (Source: easternct.edu) Bilingual education presents a major conundrum in contemporary diverse societies: on the one hand, bilingualism and...
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The language cringe of the native speaker
“How bad is your cultural cringe?” (Source: Jenna Guillaume, BuzzFeed) Keith: I’m still really shit at pronouncing Lisa’s surname. With the umlaut o. Hanna: What is Lisa’s surname? (laughter) Keith: Do...
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Educational success through bilingual education
Children in a bilingual program in Hamburg (Source: AlsterKind) It is a key finding of contemporary educational research that the children of migrants experience educational disadvantage vis-à-vis...
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Monolingualism is bad for the economy
Losing their heritage language decreases the earning potential of 2nd-generation migrants In most countries of immigration, linguistic diversity is by and large ignored by policy makers. If there are...
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Emergency service provision in linguistically diverse societies
The challenges of providing equitable services in linguistically diverse societies A few years ago, emergency service provision to speakers of languages other than English in Australia came under...
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Ingrid Piller in Japanese: ピラー著書 刊行のお知らせ
４月９日刊行予定『異文化コミュニケーションを問いなおす』イングリッド・ピラー[著] カバー・帯写真：渡邊リカルドWe are thrilled to announce that the Japanese translation of Ingrid Piller’s bestselling book Intercultural Communication: A Critical...
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Multilingual mismatch
Auburn parking ticket (left: quadrilingual on back; right: city logo on front) In Australia with its persistent monolingual mindset coming across any kind of official institutional multilingual...
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