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Is language learning on the job the best way to learn a new language?
Meat workers, Fletcher Abattoir (Source: SheepCRC) One of the most famous research subjects to ever have participated in second language learning research is a man known in the literature as Alberto....
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Bilingualism is good for you! … if you are a girl …
Bilingualism has a gender A while ago, I reported on the findings of a US study that demonstrated that children of immigrants who achieve high-level bilingual proficiency in both English and their home...
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Language or religion: which is the greater fault line in diverse societies?
Churchill Square Shopping Mall, Brighton, UK (Source: Wikipedia) In a shopping mall in the city of Brighton, UK, a tourist was arrested on terrorism charges last week for taking a selfie video. Surely,...
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Getting past the ‘indigenous’ vs. ‘immigrant’ language debate
“The English” migrated to their “ancestral homeland” in the first few centuries of the Common Era (Source: Wikipedia) “Indigenous languages” and “immigrant languages” are much discussed in language...
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Language and migration in Parramatta
Parramatta Anglican Church (©Sadami Konchi) The deadline to submit abstracts for papers to be presented at the 46th annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) at the University of...
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Don’t know what “jurisdictional error” means? Some people’s future depends on it
High Court of Australia (Source: Wikipedia) When people arrive in countries like Australia, seeking to be recognised as refugees and offered protection, it is obviously important that they are able to...
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Bitter gifts: migrants’ exclusive inclusion
Condemned to consume My migration newsfeed in the past few weeks has been dominated by news about the Syrian refugee crisis and the various European and international responses. But there have also...
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Who is a real refugee?
Who is a real refugee? The refugee crisis in Europe has caught a lot of global media attention. Countries at the entry points and their official actions, as well civil organizations, get a lot of...
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Discrimination by any other name: Language tests and racist migration policy...
Australia: The White Man’s Land (Source: NLA) Australia has a proud national narrative of migration and multiculturalism. It also has an equally prevalent history of exclusionary and discriminatory...
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Australian Perspectives on “Language and Migration”
Language and migration: the workshop presenters and organizers On December 11th, Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University) and Donna Butorac (Curtin University), organised a workshop on Language and...
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Is language learning on the job the best way to learn a new language?
Meat workers, Fletcher Abattoir (Source: SheepCRC) One of the most famous research subjects to ever have participated in second language learning research is a man known in the literature as Alberto....
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Bilingualism is good for you! … if you are a girl …
Bilingualism has a gender A while ago, I reported on the findings of a US study that demonstrated that children of immigrants who achieve high-level bilingual proficiency in both English and their home...
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Language or religion: which is the greater fault line in diverse societies?
Churchill Square Shopping Mall, Brighton, UK (Source: Wikipedia) In a shopping mall in the city of Brighton, UK, a tourist was arrested on terrorism charges last week for taking a selfie video. Surely,...
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Getting past the ‘indigenous’ vs. ‘immigrant’ language debate
“The English” migrated to their “ancestral homeland” in the first few centuries of the Common Era (Source: Wikipedia) “Indigenous languages” and “immigrant languages” are much discussed in language...
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Language and migration in Parramatta
Parramatta Anglican Church (©Sadami Konchi) The deadline to submit abstracts for papers to be presented at the 46th annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) at the University of...
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Crucial communication: language management in Australian asylum interviews
Asylum seekers in Australia face a few very public hurdles. Successive governments have used increasingly restrictive refugee policies to gain votes. Meanwhile, the media often focuses on the issue of...
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The real problem with linguistic shirkers
Asylum seekers practicing German (Source: Schwaebische.de) Germany has discovered a new social type that is causing grief in modern diverse societies: the “Integrationsverweigerer;” literally someone...
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Cleaning work: a stepping-stone or a dead-end job for migrants?
Kifibin’s workplace was a big event centre, which was open to the public only once a week Let me at once introduce you to the main character of this blog post: Kifibin. He is a Ugandan man in his...
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Portrait of a linguistic shirker
I recently pointed out that the widespread belief that migrants refuse to learn the language of their new country does not stack up against the realities of adult language learning. I summarized the...
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Serendipity, Cyberspace, and the Tactility of Documents
Front of postcard sent by Private Jacob Isak Sicherman on 1 June 1916 Remember library stacks? Browsing among books? Serendipitously finding on a nearby shelf what you didn’t know you needed? There are...
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