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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 24, 2011
- 11:07 PM
- 236 views
Language costs
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
USD 254,000: that is the cost of raising two children bilingually in English and German in Denver, Colorado. That’s a lot of money, and inspired me to do some number-crunching of my own. To begin with, it’s a reminder that … Continue reading →... Read more »
Phillipson, R. (2008) THE LINGUISTIC IMPERIALISM OF NEOLIBERAL EMPIRE . Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 5(1), 1-43. DOI: 10.1080/15427580701696886
- November 3, 2011
- 08:25 PM
- 234 views
Learn English, Make Friends!
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
How to make English-speaking friends is one of the perennial hot topics for new overseas students and new migrants. Advice on how to make “native” friends circulates like an underground currency: “Move in with English-speaking flat-mates!” “Avoid co-ethnics!” “Watch footy … Continue reading →... Read more »
Ryan, Louise. (2011) Migrants' social networks and weak ties: accessing resources and constructing relationships post‐migration. The Sociological Review, 59(4), 707-724. info:/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02030.x
- October 18, 2011
- 05:49 PM
- 266 views
The politics of subtitling
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Recently, I watched a TV documentary about the proliferation of Nomura jellyfish in Japanese coastal waters. It was a shocking tale of the devastating environmental, economic, social and human impact of overfishing, global warming and marine pollution. The reason I’m … Continue reading →... Read more »
Susana A. Eisenchlas, Chiharu Tsurutani. (2011) YOU SOUND ATTRACTIVE! PERCEPTIONS OF ACCENTED ENGLISH IN A MULTILINGUAL ENVIRONMENT. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 34(2), 216-236. info:/
- October 6, 2011
- 12:34 AM
- 300 views
Toiletological English
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Can you guess what kind of product the following text is promoting? Your well-being is close to our heart rail&fresh [product] areas are bright and friendly and leave nothing to be desired. The [product] facilities are kept perfectly clean round … Continue reading →... Read more »
PILLER, I. (2001) Identity constructions in multilingual advertising. Language in Society, 30(2), 153-186. DOI: 10.1017/S0047404501002019
- September 12, 2011
- 11:59 PM
- 398 views
Turkish alphabetisation for German integration
by Victoria Benz in Language on the Move
Contemporary Germany is the 3rd largest immigrant-receiving country internationally. In 2008, 15.6mio inhabitants (19% out of a total of 82.1mio) were post-1950 immigrants or their descendants (German Bureau of Statistics). With 2.9mio, Turks constitute the largest group of these. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →... Read more »
Benz, Victoria. (2011) Koordinierter Lese-Schreib-Lehrgang Türkisch-Deutsch im ersten Schuljahr. Durchführung und Evaluation eines Unterrichtskonzeptes. Deutsch als Zweitsprache, 29-40. info:/
- August 26, 2011
- 02:50 AM
- 521 views
Does internationalization change research content?
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Every linguistics undergraduate student is by now familiar with the fact of linguistic imperialism in academic publishing where the pressure to publish in international journals translates into the pressure to publish in English, leaving researchers from non-English-speaking backgrounds at a … Continue reading →... Read more »
Kang, M. (2009) ‘State‐guided’ university reform and colonial conditions of knowledge production. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 10(2), 191-205. DOI: 10.1080/14649370902823355
- August 16, 2011
- 08:10 AM
- 467 views
Free language choice?
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Pretty much everyone I know wants to learn English or improve their English – with the exception of those who consider themselves native speakers, obviously. What is more, everyone I know knows that everyone else wants to learn English (the … Continue reading →... Read more »
Clayton, S. (2008) The problem of ‘choice’ and the construction of the demand for English in Cambodia. Language Policy, 7(2), 143-164. DOI: 10.1007/s10993-008-9084-9
- August 10, 2011
- 10:59 PM
- 514 views
iBoyfriend
by Lachlan Jackson in Language on the Move
Having lived and taught English in Japan for more than fifteen years, until last night I’d thought I’d seen it all. That was until I stumbled across the もし彼氏が外国人だったら英会話 (What if my Boyfriend was a Foreigner English Conversation [my translation]) … Continue reading →... Read more »
Takahashi, Kimie. (2010) Multilingual couple talk: Romance,identity, and the political economy of language. D. Nunan , 199-207. info:/
- July 20, 2011
- 12:51 AM
- 500 views
The cult of personal responsibility
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Ads for a campaign to speak German are currently all over Germany. The campaign is called “Ich spreche Deutsch” (I speak German) and aims to convince migrant youths to learn more German or learn German faster. The campaign’s clever slogan … Continue reading →... Read more »
VIRGINIA P. COLLIER. (1989) How Long? A Synthesis of Research on Academic Achievement in a Second Language. TESOL Quarterly, 509-531. info:/
García, O. (2011) Educating New York's bilingual children: constructing a future from the past. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 14(2), 133-153. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2010.539670
Yates, L. (2011) Interaction, language learning and social inclusion in early settlement. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 14(4), 457-471. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2011.573068
- June 27, 2011
- 01:06 AM
- 594 views
Not knowing English good for business?
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
The current global orthodoxy holds that learning English is good: individuals who know English are supposed to have an advantage in the job market and countries with large English-learning populations are supposed to be “developing” and “modernizing.” Critical sociolinguists have, … Continue reading →... Read more »
NEIL M. COE, JENNIFER JOHNS AND KEVIN WARD. (2012) Limits to expansion: transnational corporations and territorial embeddedness in the Japanese temporary staffing market. Global Networks, 12(1), 1-26. info:/
- June 20, 2011
- 04:13 AM
- 584 views
Tyranny of Language
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Our contributor in Karachi, Md. Ali Khan, has alerted me to what seems to be a fascinating book: The Tyranny of Language in Education by Zubeida Mustafa published by Ushba Books. I’d love to read the book but trying to … Continue reading →... Read more »
Han, Huamei. (2011) Social inclusion through multilingual ideologies, policies and practices: a case study of a minority church. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 14(4), 383-398. info:/
- June 2, 2011
- 07:44 AM
- 620 views
Language revitalization and liberation
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
I’ve recently come across the story of Chibana Shoichi, who burnt the Japanese flag in 1987 to commemorate the Okinawan victims of WWII Japanese militarism. The story is intriguing not because of the flag-burning incident but because Shoichi also keeps … Continue reading →... Read more »
Heinrich, P. (2004) Language Planning and Language Ideology in the Ryūkyū Islands. Language Policy, 153-179. DOI: 10.1023/B:LPOL.0000036192.53709.fc
- May 23, 2011
- 08:17 PM
- 614 views
Learning to be marginal
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Much of my research over the past decade has involved talking to migrants to Australia and overseas students about their experiences of language learning and settlement. In these conversations, I have often been struck by the strong sense of disappointment … Continue reading →... Read more »
Karuna Morarji. (2010) Where does the rural educated person fit? Development and social reproduction in contemporary India. Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (ed. Philip McMichael). Routledge, 50-63. info:/
- May 19, 2011
- 08:22 PM
- 663 views
Glocalization à la Suisse
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
When I lived in Basel, a city in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, I often found myself performing an involuntary field experiment in language attitudes. As likely to speak English as German in public, I was regularly confronted with strangers’ … Continue reading →... Read more »
Moser, Urs . (2010) Entwicklung der Sprachkompetenzen in der Erst- und Zweitsprache von Migrantenkindern. Do you speak Swiss? Verlag Neue Zuercher Zeitung, 105-107. info:/
- May 9, 2011
- 06:04 AM
- 438 views
Bilingual math
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Over the past year or so I’ve started to make my daughter do daily arithmetic practice in German. My reason for doing so stems from my dissatisfaction with the ways in which rote learning and memorization as a learning style … Continue reading →... Read more »
Aneta Pavlenko (Ed.). (2011) Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages. Multilingual Matters. info:/
- May 6, 2011
- 02:26 AM
- 692 views
Can foreign languages drive you crazy?
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
On The Science Show they recently had a program about how unfamiliar sounds, rhythms and tonalities can drive people crazy. I learnt that neuroscientists have been experimenting with the idea that when confronted with unfamiliar musical patterns the brain releases … Continue reading →... Read more »
Lehrer, Jonah. (2007) Proust was a neuroscientist. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. info:/
- March 3, 2011
- 06:29 PM
- 722 views
National Languages Curriculum
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
My daughter attends a public elementary school in NSW where the children are taught French for one hour each week. In 2009, she was away from her school for one year and did not receive any French instruction during that … Continue reading →... Read more »
Clyne, Michael. (2005) Australia's Language Potential. UNSW Press. info:/
- February 26, 2011
- 06:59 AM
- 531 views
Where is home?
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Many of the people close to my heart are transnationals such as myself. Belonging is a frequently discussed topic in my circles, and often a topic that is surrounded by considerable angst. Where do we belong? Is it really worth … Continue reading →... Read more »
Kim, Y. (2011) Diasporic nationalism and the media: Asian women on the move. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(2), 133-151. DOI: 10.1177/1367877910382184
- February 17, 2011
- 04:08 PM
- 995 views
Long-term English language learners
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
When I first started teaching in Australia, I had a Korean-Australian student in one of my undergraduate classes who sounded like most of the other students in my class, like a native speaker of Australian-English. The daughter of Korean immigrants, … Continue reading →... Read more »
Menken, K., & Kleyn, T. (2010) The long-term impact of subtractive schooling in the educational experiences of secondary English language learners. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 13(4), 399-417. DOI: 10.1080/13670050903370143
- February 13, 2011
- 06:09 PM
- 983 views
Do you speak Swiss?
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
A most amazing book has just landed on my desk: Do you speak Swiss, edited by Walter Haas, is the final report on a Swiss National Research Project devoted to Linguistic Diversity and Language Competence in Switzerland. Initiated by the … Continue reading →... Read more »
Walter Haas (Ed.). (2010) Do you speak Swiss? Sprachenvielfalt und Sprachkompetenz in der Schweiz. Nationales Forschungsprogramm NFP 56. NZZ Libro. info:/
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