Does institutional bilingual education just reinforce racial hierarchies? Find out from @brynnquick.bsky.social’s conversation with Nelson Flores on this very interesting @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast. ⬇️

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

In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, @brynnquick.bsky.social chats with @nelsonlflores.bsky.social about bilingual education in the US, and why it's not the path to reducing disadvantage it is cracked up to be languageonthemove.com/genealogy-of...

An incredibly insightful piece by Naomi Fillmore and @htorsh.bsky.social. Is bilingualism in children seen as positive or negative depending on their languages/race? New on @languageonthemove.bsky.social ⬇️

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · last mo.

Whether the media describe childhood bilingualism as a gift or a problem depends on the identity of the children, as new research by @naomifillmore.bsky.social and @htorsh.bsky.social shows languageonthemove.com/childhood-bi...

Please read and support this submission to the NSW Human Rights Enquiry, advocating to protect the rights of people with limited English proficiency. ⬇️ @languageonthemove.bsky.social @lawandlanguage.org

Dr Laura Smith-Khan@lawandlanguage.org · last mo.

NSW has a Human Rights Bill currently under consideration. We've put together a submission advocating for the inclusion of protections to help ensure people with limited English proficiency can equally access their rights. Endorsements are welcome. Read more @languageonthemove.bsky.social

Fascinating new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast about German refugee neuroscientists who shaped scientific and medical cultures in North America on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ⬇️

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Refugee neuroscientists from the German lands in the 1930s & 40s made a new life in N America & shaped scientific and medical cultures there - learn more in the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Frank Stahnisch languageonthemove.com/great-minds-...

“people who are coming into English bring with them a tremendous gift…they're enriching and enlivening the English language” My @languageonthemove.bsky.social with Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike about how English speaks Islam on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social languageonthemove.com/islam-in-eng...

Islam in English

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Oludamini Oguannaike, Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virgini…

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Islam in English? In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, @tazinabdullah.bsky.social chats with Dr Oludamini Ogunnaike about Arabic loanwords, why hangover is a metaphor for paradise, and much more - enjoy! languageonthemove.com/islam-in-eng...

Islam in English

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Oludamini Oguannaike, Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virgini…

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Fabulous new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast by @empacheco.bsky.social with Dr. Santiago Betancor Falcón on language activism and Romani language revitalization.

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: @empacheco.bsky.social chats with Santiago Betancor Falcón about language activism and Romani language revitalization in Spain languageonthemove.com/romani-grass...

Listen to my colleagues @brynnquick.bsky.social Dr Yeong-Ju Lee have this fantastic conversation about language learning and social media on the latest @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast! ⬇️

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: @brynnquick.bsky.social chats with Dr Yeong Ju Lee about her new book "Social Media and Language Learning" languageonthemove.com/learning-lan...

Super interesting @languageonthemove.bsky.social blog about what goes on in the brains of simultaneous interpreters!

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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-...

Hurry up and download @drsarahhopkyns.bsky.social's new book "Decoloniality in Multilingual University Spaces" FOR FREE from @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org until tomorrow (May 20) www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Decoloniality in Multilingual University Spaces

Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Decoloniality in Multilingual University Spaces

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Listen to the latest @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast on Language-on-the-Move about linguistic diversity in the UAE - an excellent conversation about bilingual writers and corpus analysis. ⬇️

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: Ingrid Piller and David Palfreyman talk about linguistic diversity in Dubai, the Zayed Arabic-English Bilingual Undergraduate Corpus, and multilingual writers' corpora more generally languageonthemove.com/bilingual-wr...

This is such an interesting Language-on-the-move blog post by @zabanwala.bsky.social on the shifting role of ‘broken Arabic’. I read it and watched all the TikTok and Instagram videos it talks about with great fascination! ⬇️

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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...

What happened when English-speaking missionaries came into contact with multilingual Indigenous Australians? I had this fascinating conversation with @laurarad.bsky.social on the 1st @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast of 2026 on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Language teaching and translation: competitions over who can name, own, and control In 1st Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for 2026, @tazinabdullah.bsky.social speaks with Laura Rademaker about the Christian mission in North Australia languageonthemove.com/found-in-tra...

An excellent @languageonthemove.bsky.social post by Jenia Yudytska about how ChatGPT can actually weaken Ukrainian migrant mutual aid efforts.

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 6mo ago

After our end-of-year publishing break, Language on the Move is back with an important post about how ChatGPT can actually weaken migrant mutual aid efforts, by @schenior.bsky.social Another example where GenAI is useful in theory but damaging in reality languageonthemove.com/digital-mutu...

@languageonthemove.bsky.social Reading Challenge 2026 is out! Some great titles to peruse! ⬇️

Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge 2026 just dropped! Check it out and start reading! www.languageonthemove.com/language-on-...

“Multilingual learners do not need us to fix their English…but they need us to design learning where their full linguistic repertoires are seen as an asset.” Insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast -@agib.bsky.social speaks with Cindy Valdez! www.languageonthemove.com/your-languag...

Your languages are your superpower!

In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Cindy Valdez, an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) specialist, and Founder & CEO of Teach To Learn, a…

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I've started a Starter Pack for the Language on the Move research community 🥳 For members of the research group, contributors to the blog/podcast. Please shout out if you're part of the LOTM community and I'll add you/tag suggestions (or lmk if you're on there but would prefer not to be)

Please participate in this short survey about innovative grammar in Australian English!

Hanna Torsh@htorsh.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Participants needed for research on innovative grammar in Australian English. It will involve an anonymous online questionnaire that will take approximately 5-15 minutes to complete.

@brynnquick.bsky.social gives us an EXCELLENT guide to managing your supervisor on Language on the Move, together with my favourite photo of the PhD Mum life! ⬇️ www.languageonthemove.com/how-to-manag...

How to manage your supervisor

You know that feeling you get in your stomach when you’ve climbed to the top of a rollercoaster, and you look down to see that first huge drop that’s rapidly approaching? That’s exactly what it can…

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Just out on the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: instead of asking how to improve machine translation, we need to ask who are these improvements for ... @tazinabdullah.bsky.social in conversation with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...

The Social Impact of Automating Translation

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Catalun…

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Are there social impacts of relying on AI for translations? Are AI translations neutral and inclusive? I discuss these and more in this very insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...

The Social Impact of Automating Translation

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Catalun…

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Learn about Chinese in Qatar's multilingual landscape in the latest Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, where @tazinabdullah.bsky.social chats with @sarapatra.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/chinese-in-q...

Chinese in Qatar

Is Chinese becoming a major linguistic player in Qatar? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Sara Hillman, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics …

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Do you know about the rising visibility of Chinese in Qatar? Listen to the very interesting aspects of @sarapetra.bsky.social research into the languages of Qatar in our @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/chinese-in-q...

@empacheco.bsky.social's research on how children of migrant deaf adults navigate their multilingual worlds is so fascinating, even my teenagers wanted to hear about it! Read about this in Emily's @languageonthemove.bsky.social blog post: www.languageonthemove.com/children-of-...

Children of migrant Deaf adults

During my Master of Research (MRes) studies, whenever I met someone new, they would often enquire about what I was doing for my thesis. When I told them, I was doing research with hearing children …

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There’s so much bad in the world right now, but here’s a chance to do some GOOD! If you are based in Australia and proficient in one or more languages other than English, please help my dear friend @tazinabdullah.bsky.social with her important research! www.languageonthemove.com/research-par...

Research participants needed to evaluate multilingual online communications

If you are proficient in one or more languages other than English, please help me investigate how linguistically diverse Australians find information about support services for domestic violence on…

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Kamala Harris' linguistic identity? Listen to this very engaging @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast, where @brynnquick.bsky.social talks to Dr. Nicole Holliday about the complex interactions between accents, identities, and politics. www.languageonthemove.com/accents-comp...

Accents, complex identities, and politics

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Nicole Holliday. Dr. Holliday is a sociophonetician and Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cali…

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Talk about research with real-life impact! @agib.bsky.social talks to Dr. Masaki Shibata in this @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast about beach safety signage - do they serve our multilingual communities? ⬇️ www.languageonthemove.com/is-beach-saf...

Is beach safety signage fit for purpose?

We often take the meaning of signs for granted but that’s far from the case in a linguistically and culturally diverse society. The instruction to “Swim between the flags!”, for i…

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Do you speak a language other than English and live in Australia? PLEASE HELP me improve multilingual domestic violence support information by participating in my study and promoting it! 30-minute survey + $10 voucher for your participation. www.languageonthemove.com/research-par...

Research participants needed to evaluate multilingual online communications

If you are proficient in one or more languages other than English, please help me investigate how linguistically diverse Australians find information about support services for domestic violence on…

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Listen to Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller's inspiring words about using the resources researchers are given to "pay it forward" as she accepts her 2025 Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship Award on this @languageonthemove.bsky.social post. ⬇️ www.languageonthemove.com/alexander-vo...

Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professorship Awards 2025

Dear Language-on-the-Move Community, It is with immense gratitude and excitement that I write this special news item about a recent career development: I’ve been awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt P…

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