Last year, I wrote here on Language on the Move about Members of Parliament (MPs) across Australia making linguistic diversity visible. My research amplifies the increasing numbers of elected repre…

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick chats with Professor Dr. Natalia Filatkina, Dr. Kerstin Roth and Research Associate Miriam Hinterholzer. All three work at the Unive…

“Eh, what?!” When a different melody causes confusion It happened to me again. I said something, and my interlocutor’s reaction was: “I don’t know.” There is something in the melody of my “Czech” G…

We're taught the alphabet in school when we're young, but how much do you know about its history?

The typical Aussie is widely imagined as a white English speaker Despite decades of multiculturalism, the typical Australian is widely imagined as a white monolingual speaker of English. Australian…

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick chats with Dr. Nicole Marinaro, a sociolinguist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg. Her work explores how lang…

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Yaron Matras about his new book Speech and the City. In this timely book, Yaron shows that cities can provide an impor…

What path do you take if the metaphorical mountain is too steep for both learners and teachers to climb? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Hannah Madin an…

Editor’s note: The 2026 Hamburg International Summer School “Literacies for Social Participation” has come and gone. For those of us fortunate enough to attend, it was an epic learning …

Editor’s Note: The 111th World Congress of Esperanto is currently taking place in the Austrian city of Graz. According to Austrian National TV, more than 1,100 attendees from 62 countries are…

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In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick sits down with Dr. Nelson Flores to discuss his 2024 book entitled Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Edu…

*** Naomi Fillmore, Hanna Torsh, Yanisa Jakklom *** Imagine four Australian children playing in a playground. Yu speaks Chinese and English, Jakob speaks Arabic and English, Molly, who is from the …

*** Naomi Fillmore, Hanna Torsh, Yanisa Jakklom *** Imagine four Australian children playing in a playground. Yu speaks Chinese and English, Jakob speaks Arabic and English, Molly, who is from the …

Pauline Hanson has pledged to scrap SBS. The government needs to hear from the rest of us now.

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…

PRIMARY DETAIL We are seeking an outstanding teaching & research academic with expertise in Speech Science to join our growing Speech and Hearing Sciences discipline within the Department of Lingu...

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Frank Stahnisch, Professor of the History of Medicine and Health Care at the University of Calgary in Canada, about hi…

Are you a family based in Australia using a language other than English at home? Do you have a child between 6 and 14 years of age? Are you keen to boost your home language in creative ways? Resear…

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…

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…

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Dr Santiago Betancor Falcón (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) about his 2025 paper, Autonomous languag…

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Yeong Ju Lee about her new book Social Media and Language Learning: Using TikTok and Instagram.    This book e…