An institution has a monolingual habitus when their multilingual policies neglect to allocate the necessary language work to anyone
@brynnquick.bsky.social explains in new episode of our podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social hosted by @empacheco.bsky.social
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"Language education is never neutral...that truth is written into every lesson.. because a group ..refused to accept their language had no place in schools & built that place themselves, against a policy landscape that hadn't foreseen them" @martinderince.bsky.social
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"When a single teacher produces their own materials, recruits students, negotiates with school administrators, and runs a classroom without professional support or formally recognized qualifications — that is agency, yes. It is also a burden that comparable programs do not place on individuals."
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How do you establish a stateless language in the heritage school system?
In the latest Language-on-the-Move post, @martinderince.bsky.social traces the development of Kurdish teaching in Germany
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New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: why and how older adults in Berlin learn English
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During my "walk and listen" session today, I listened to @languageonthemove.bsky.social Hanna Torsh talking to Lindsay McMahon on @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast about pronunciation teaching for global English. Especially enjoyed the part on "clear speech"
Link: megaphone.link/NBNK4700315691
I've published a new systematic review with @languageonthemove.bsky.social about how hospital staff determine patients' language proficiency. We show that this crucial step is often not part of anyone's workflow, so patients might miss out on interpreting services. doi.org/10.29140/aja...
Feel free to tell the editors they can reach out to me if they need a reviewer :)
Where can I read this??? Sounds amazing!
New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social:
@htorsh.bsky.social chats with Lindsay McMahon from All Ears English how to teach English pronunciation well against the decline of native speakers and the rise of new technologies
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Just downloaded @marcosantello.bsky.social's new book "Constrained Multilingualism" - looking forward to reading it!
It's *free* to download from @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org until April 6 - so hurry 🤩
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An opportunity to join a very exciting project and a very fun (I promise 😁) research team!
We are hiring! 😀
Really cool opportunity for a junior researcher working in language and migration to join our @humboldt-foundation.de Professorship team and the Literacy in Diversity Settings (LiDS) Research Center at @uni-hamburg.de
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"Literacies for Social Participation" - join us for an exciting summer school and doctoral conference in July at @uni-hamburg.de
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Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy
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 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
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A thoughtful thread update from my @languageonthemove.bsky.social colleague
Thank you, @schenior.bsky.social for these chronicles! 🙏
More of my frustrated thoughts in this @languageonthemove.bsky.social post here: languageonthemove.com/digital-mutu...
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Four years of war, good god. So I continue my depressing tradition of going through THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY of the situation for Ukrainians in Austria.
You can compare directly with last year's thread.
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1/22
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This International Mother Language Day we're offering a 40% discount on all our books for a limited time only!
Just use code IML40 at the checkout on our website to get 40% off your order 📚️
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"To junior scholars, this volume opens paths into research by presenting the value and importance of a long-term, coherent research agenda."
Thanks to @jupurkarthofer.bsky.social & @languageinsociety.bsky.social for new review of "Life in a New Language" (@academic.oup.com)
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People who do not eat chips could be ‘left behind’, says Frito-Lay’s CEO
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
Andrea Pešková (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on accents as "not errors but expressions of our identity, multilingual experience and authenticity."
"In other words — and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the [Sirius Cybernetics] Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded — their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."
I have a foreign accent in Italian and it's part of my identity. What I do wish I could get rid of is the tendency to make slight grammatical errors - and not because I don't know they're errors, I hear them the second I say them. It's depressing to know I'll always do that in my everyday language
For most second language speakers, their foreign accent is a source of anxiety. Some turn to accent modification training.
In the latest Language-on-the-Move post, Andrea Pešková provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of accent coaching.
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