Language on the Move

Policies increasingly acknowledge multilingual realities but neglect to imagine the language work that is involved and how to build it into workflows in healthcare and elsewhere, as this new article by @brynnquick.bsky.social etal shows

Behind paywall until Jan & OA afterwards

ALAA 2025 at Charles Darwin University Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Conference, held at Charles Darwin University in Garramilla/Darwin on Larrakia Country from No…

Did you attend the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Conference @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social in Garramilla/Darwin a few weeks ago? Relive the fun and compare notes with Sophie Munte in our new Language-on-the-Move post
www.languageonthemove.com/alaa-2025-at...

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

Intercultural Communication Intercultural Communication

If you'd like to own a copy of "Intercultural Communication", make use of this weekend's St. Andrew's Day sale of @edinburghup.bsky.social - 50% off this and all their other titles 😃

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-intercu...

Apply to be a research assistant in Language Diversity! Only in Hamburg!

@nicolemarinaro.bsky.social @martinderince.bsky.social @marakyrou.bsky.social @languageonthemove.bsky.social

www.stellenwerk.de/hamburg/shkw...

This is an absolutely fantastic post about a fascinating education #LinguisticLandscape!
Kudos to everyone involved in this post and project!

From “Howdy” to “Hayakom”: A shifting university linguascape Sara Hillman, Aishwaryaa Kannan, and Tim Tizon ***   Walking into the Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) building today feels different from just a year ago. As part of an ongoing proje…

New on Language-on-the-Move: fascinating longitudinal linguistic landscape study by @sarapatra.bsky.social and team, chronicling the shifts from Texan English to Qatari Arabic in a Middle Eastern university
www.languageonthemove.com/from-howdy-t...

DECRA success rate is the lowest in 14 years, since 2012 (1st year the scheme ran).

What a pathetic system we have for supporting new ideas, new people…

DE26: 13.1%
25: 17.9
24: 19.6
23: 15.0
22: 19.7
21: 17.1
20: 16.0
19: 17.2
18: 16.3
17: 16.7
16: 16.4
15: 14.3
14: 13.6
13: 15.6
12: 12.8

It was such a great experience to chat with Cindy Valdez! Listen to the full podcast 👇

Shared Reading Day 2025 Editor’s note: Shared reading – the practice where adults read to children – has many benefits: it improves children’s language and literacy development, as well as their in…

Germany has a "Shared Reading Day" 😍 - Vorlesetag!
Great opportunity to join the fun and read to a child in your life!
This year's Vorlesetag is even dedicate to multilingual reading!
www.languageonthemove.com/shared_readi...

Wait - what? Why?

REMINDER : ALL modern infrastructure evolution 2003-2025

#Cloudflare

As an English speaking country (with nice beaches to boot) for the cost of a small tax on fossil fuel exports or high incomes Australia could invest in science, recruit researchers fleeing the US and become the knowledge powerhouse of the 21st Century. Instead we're doing this.

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…

“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...

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

Your/our languages are your/our superpowers!

The new podcast from the @languageonthemove.bsky.social

In this podcast Cindy Alvarez talks about how to center and celebrate each person’s language (and identity) in learning contexts, but applicable in so many other contexts. As she says “You are your language” and “you all have to celebrate what you bring in”

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…

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...

I cannot thank @tazinabdullah.bsky.social and the whole @languageonthemove.bsky.social Team enough. You have literally put our language and the plight of its speakers on the world linguistics map. And thank you, @lauraskh.bsky.social, for your deeply humbling words. 🙏

Intercultural Communication - New Books Network

🎧 Author Interview: Ingrid Piller joins @languageonthemove.bsky.social
 to discuss the third edition of our popular textbook, Intercultural Communication!

 Delve into the podcast: 

Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast.
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:

@marcosantello.bsky.social

Thank you so much, Laura! Here's another lot to add :)
@drsarahhopkyns.bsky.social @theresaheyd.bsky.social @emilyjfarrell.bsky.social @jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social @emanusydney.bsky.social @zabanwala.bsky.social @petterilai.bsky.social @johannaennser.bsky.social @mixedlinguist.bsky.social

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)

It's not every day we get to welcome several new amazing members to our research community in one go. Check out the new dream team joining Prof Piller in Hamburg 🤩

Continuing to be absolutely thrilled about my postdoc, in the project "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan"!! 😍😍

Check out the Language on the Move website + podcast and follow my new colleagues if you're interested in multilingualism & applied sociolinguistics!

Introducing the Humboldt Professorship team Attentive readers will remember that in May this year we advertised six doctoral and postdoctoral positions to conduct research related to “Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the …

Exciting news: 6 new research fellows have joined Ingrid Piller's @humboldt-foundation.de Professor team @uni-hamburg.de
Meet them at www.languageonthemove.com/introducing-...
Welcome @schenior.bsky.social @marakyrou.bsky.social @juaninlanguage.bsky.social @nicolemarinaro.bsky.social 🤗

So sweet to discover that "Linguistic diversity and social justice" is part of someone's holiday memories 🤩

@schenior.bsky.social has just begun a post-doc with Ingrid Piller (@languageonthemove.bsky.social) at Hamburg, with a bunch of other cool people. Follow her for research, stay for the book reviews 😀

Project overview here
www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...