The NSW Parliament is currently holding an inquiry into the Human Rights Bill 2025 and we think language needs to be part of the conversation. The Bill proposes to establish a statutory human rights framework for NSW. Read more and endorse the argument in the blogpost on Language on the Move:

Rights of People with Limited English Language Proficiency

The New South Wales (NSW) Parliament is currently holding an inquiry into the Human Rights Bill 2025. The Bill proposes to establish a statutory human rights framework for NSW (for non-Australian r…

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Ever wondered how simultaneous interpreters do such an amazing job and what goes on in their brains as they listen in one language and speak in another? New post on Language-on-the-Move has the answer 😃 languageonthemove.com/the-cost-of-...

The cost of language juggling

*** Adolfo M. García, Agustina Birba, Edinson Muñoz, Isabelle Chou *** How interpreting drains the bilingual mind Simultaneous interpreting is often described as one of the most cognitively demandi…

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I've published a new systematic review with @languageonthemove.bsky.social about how hospital staff determine patients' language proficiency. We show that this crucial step is often not part of anyone's workflow, so patients might miss out on interpreting services. doi.org/10.29140/aja...

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New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: why and how older adults in Berlin learn English languageonthemove.com/older-adults...

Older adults learning English in Berlin

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Katharina Gensch (University of Hamburg) about her new paper “English language education for older adults in a mult…

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"Language education is never neutral...that truth is written into every lesson.. because a group ..refused to accept their language had no place in schools & built that place themselves, against a policy landscape that hadn't foreseen them" @martinderince.bsky.social @languageonthemove.bsky.social

Kurdish Heritage Language Education

Ez li welêt mamoste bûm. Lê piştî 12 Îlonê em ketin hepsê. Hepsê de em hinek kurdî elimîn. [In the homeland, I was a teacher. But after the military coup of September 12, I was imprisoned. It was i…

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I got to be in the guest seat this time on the latest @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast episode hosted by the fabulous @empacheco.bsky.social !

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 4mo ago

An institution has a monolingual habitus when their multilingual policies neglect to allocate the necessary language work to anyone @brynnquick.bsky.social explains in new episode of our podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social hosted by @empacheco.bsky.social languageonthemove.com/the-unimagin...

New on Language-on-the-Move: @zabanwala.bsky.social and colleagues explain how arabi mukassar (‘broken Arabic’) is changing from an object of mockery to a marketing tool languageonthemove.com/broken-arabi...

“Broken Arabic” between mockery and commercialization

*** By Rizwan Ahmad, Salma Dhailia, and Mahla Almeraikhi *** Es fi: ‘Broken’ Arabic in the Gulf When you walk through the streets of any Gulf country, you may hear a language that is neither Arabic…

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New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: @htorsh.bsky.social chats with Lindsay McMahon from All Ears English how to teach English pronunciation well against the decline of native speakers and the rise of new technologies languageonthemove.com/teaching-eng...

Teaching English Pronunciation

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Lindsay McMahon, founder of the All Ears English Podcast, about pronunciation teaching for global English.  What does it…

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The National Advocates for Arts Education has secured an official e-petition to Commonwealth Parliament on arts education. Sign the petition: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... Deadline is 1 April Please share with your network before we lose Arts education in Australia entirely.

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Also, because I've had the.. pleasure... of going through Australian borders a couple of times recently, let's re-up this one from a great project with Ingrid Piller (@languageonthemove.bsky.social) and @htorsh.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/laur... On the Border Security tv show 📸from recent travels

Dr Laura Smith-Khan@lawandlanguage.org · 2y ago

I also wanted to explore synergies between frontline borderwork - and how it's presented in this show - and my existing work on the construction of (in)credibility in migration procedures and media representations of migrants/migration. This resulted in our OA @journallawsociety.bsky.social article

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Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined

Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low

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New publication alert! Out article 'Big Impact or No Advantage? Raciolinguistic Framings in Australian Media Coverage of Young People's Multilingualism' is now available in early online view in the Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social 🧵

My new entry in the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics might interest you. Please reach out if you'd like a copy and don't have institutional access. Feminist Approaches in Applied Linguistics Research - Torsh - Major Reference Works - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Feminist Approaches in Applied Linguistics Research

Feminist approaches in applied linguistics research refer to a diverse research agenda that shares a commitment to revealing and interrogating the gender order in and through language and its mainten...

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So pleased for colleagues at UTS that their hard fought battle has paid off and these programs will continue. We need teachers and languages! www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

UTS walks back cuts, teaching degrees to stay

The cash-strapped university had announced plans to slash some degrees earlier this year. But public health goes.

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new paper out! in which we describe the huge amount of work it took to develop the corpus of the Australian mixed language Gurindji Kriol, and how this enabled novel quantitative research. one for the data-heads 🤓

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally

A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

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And a reminder that in 2024 jewelley stolen in similar historical policies was returned to families because it was wrong www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Jewellery stolen by the Nazis from concentration camp victims returned to families

Families of 12 Polish inmates given back their belongings during ceremony in Warsaw

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Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.

#CSIRO says 350 research positions would go at the organisation. That's on top of more than 800 jobs cut over the past 18 months. The union reax "Worse than Abbott", describing cuts as more devastating than those inflicted by the former Coalition government. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Government playing down impact of CSIRO job cuts

The prime minister, when in opposition, accused the Coalition of "hollowing out" the CSIRO. Now, following the announcement 350 research positions at the organisation will be cut, he is being accused ...

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A highlight of the 2025 AALA conference was the ECR catch up where I got the best reaction ever to introducing myself, from the amazing Dr Soyeon Kim at Deakin and Monash. Lovely to meet everyone! #AppLing

Your/our languages are your/our superpowers! The new podcast from the @languageonthemove.bsky.social

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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 www.languageonthemove.com/your-languag...

Her research is on insect pollinators in farming. I doubt these drymouths have ever given a single thought to where their food comes from, as their poor mums probably keep them fed

Juliet Turner@juliet-turner.bsky.social · 9mo ago

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

The world isn't just a container for languages, it is a political field, animated by structures and systems that drive the fate of languages and the people who use them. Nationalism, colonialism, racism and capitalism are four key structures in today's world system.

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

Are you a teacher in Sydney, Australia? Can you help my student with with this research? www.languageonthemove.com/language-bro...

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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“I just want people to know that AI is being sold as this tech magic – that’s why there’s a little sparkle symbol next to an AI response,” said Sawyer. “But it’s not. It’s built on the backs of overworked, underpaid human beings.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

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Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

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Sexual predation and English language teaching

In this episode Hanna Torsh talks to Vaughan Rapatahana about sexual predation in the English language teaching industry. Dr Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa) is an author, poet and editor who lives i…

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I was explaining a treatment plan to a patient, and their partner told me to talk slowly because they were typing what I was saying into chatgpt to "verify" there wasn't a better alternative. In case you are wondering the stage of mess we are in with LLMs. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Man who asked ChatGPT about cutting out salt from his diet was hospitalized with hallucinations

A case study in a medical journal reported that the 60-year-old man replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide after consulting the AI bot.

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Great to see the ABC exploring this issue! @louisawilloughby.bsky.social

Dr Laura Smith-Khan@lawandlanguage.org · 12mo ago

"The problem with English tests" a good explainer from the ABC on visa related language requirements