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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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Do monolingual teachers produce a Golem effect in multilingual students?
Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher expectations result in...
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Aboriginal languages matter – but to who?
NAIDOC Week 2017 Logo Every year, the first week of July marks NAIDOC Week – a time to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and recognise the achievements of first Australians. The...
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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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