Emanuela Moretto

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The (un)imagined work of determining patients’ English language proficiency This study investigates how Australian healthcare policies imagine communication between limited English proficiency (LEP) patients and healthcare providers to occur. This is done through a work as...

I'm published!!!!!!! This is my very first academic paper that I've published! Ever! I'm so thankful to my co-authors @languageonthemove.bsky.social Ingrid Piller and @loylising.bsky.social Loy Lising <3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"[L]inguistics is uniquely positioned to teach us both about what all humans share and what makes cultures and individuals distinct"
@adamcschembri.bsky.social expressed it so nicely, read more here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...

🚨The Russian government has banned us as an “undesirable” foreign organization. Our work hasn’t changed. But what’s changed is Russia’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies, its staggering rise in repression & the scope of the war crimes its forces are committing in Ukraine.
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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 😃

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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
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"falling back on speaking English and using technology to aid translation may be easier in the short term, but this undercuts long-term language and integration goals. Language learners constantly face this choice between short-term ease and long-term impact."

What AI earbuds can’t replace: The value of learning another language AI-fueled technologies make communicating in other languages easier than ever, but it still can’t replace the transformative value of learning a new language.

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New linguistics research casts doubt on decades-old murder conviction Stephen ‘Shorty’ Jamieson has been behind bars since 1988. Fresh research critically examines the confession that put him there.

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Francesca Albanese's report for the UN. Solidarity to a smart and honest lawyer and to her indefatigable fight for the truth

A/80/492: "Gaza Genocide: a collective crime" – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. - Advance unedited version SummaryThe ongoing genocide in Gaza is a collective crime, sustained by the complicity of influential Third States that have enabled longstanding systemic violations of international law by Israel. Fr...

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Our brand new catalogue is now available! 📚

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How speaking in a second language directly affects your moral judgement The ‘moral foreign language effect’ makes you more rational, and less emotional.

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Counting what doesn’t count: How consultants are hollowing out the university When Western Sydney University announced it would shed hundreds of staff, its vice-chancellor described the decision as part of a “necessary transformation.

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AI as Agency Without Intelligence: on ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and Other Generative Models - Philosophy & Technology Philosophy & Technology -

Well worth a read - serious reality check...much needed
by @floridi.bsky.social
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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…

Sydney-based teachers needed for short survey about language brokering in schools - when children serve as interpreters for their parents

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I'll be speaking at this in December! Come along if you can!

Has meritocracy gotten the better of our universities? - ABC Religion & Ethics It’s not every day that the students and staff of a university succeed in forcing a vice-chancellor from office — that’s what happened at ANU, but why did change take so long when it was clearly neces...

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Flinders University jobs under threat as news of proposed restructure spreads Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.

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Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer For all the talk of addressing the problem, things have got worse. Which is criminal when there is so much we could do, says journalist Sophia Smith Galer

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I keep saying this but in all of the professional circles I am involved AI (like all awful things imposed on us) is presented as a foregone conclusion and the discussions are limited to *how we can implement it effectively* rather than *whether we should implement it at all*

'Rotten' Australian university culture lashed in long-running senate inquiry Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.

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ABC just suspended Jimmy Kimmel after Trump’s FCC chair threatened affiliates. This isn’t about “offensive comments.” It’s the state deciding who can joke, who can speak. Once rulers censor comedians, the collapse of free speech isn’t a forecast - it’s here.

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We were very pleased to get the news today that the Australian National Dictionary Centre will be saved, thanks to an anonymous donation and the halt on involuntary redundancies under the Renew ANU plan. We thank everyone for their generous support through these difficult times.

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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Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.

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Unpause the Pause for International Studies and Languages and Cultures at UTS. We need your voice
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Something is rotten in Australia’s tertiary education. And UTS’s suspension of teaching courses is one of its biggest disgraces | Isobel Crealy If preparing teachers for NSW during an ongoing teacher shortage isn’t a public good, what is?

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