A fascinating spatial take on family language policy: this article traces how multilingual practices are negotiated across home-school spaces. An interesting contribution, with implications for how we understand these matters:
doi.org/10.1080/1470...
For those who couldn't make it here's Jinsuk Yang's article on this topic fresh off the press: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What's beyond dominant framings that position immigrant women as deficient language users? Jinsuk Yang will talk about this and more, focusing on the lived experiences of immigrant mothers in Japan, in her upcoming online seminar comunicazione.campusnet.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl...
What's beyond dominant framings that position immigrant women as deficient language users? Jinsuk Yang will talk about this and more, focusing on the lived experiences of immigrant mothers in Japan, in her upcoming online seminar comunicazione.campusnet.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl...
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
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
"Literacies for Social Participation" - join us for an exciting summer school and doctoral conference in July at @uni-hamburg.de
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If anybody is in Turin next week, I will be talking about Constrained Multilingualism
"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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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.
languageonthemove.com/how-i-worked...
"How can EL teachers simultaneously develop students’ language skills as a way to support social mobility while also acknowledging the importance of validating and welcoming home languages/dialects into academic spaces?" 🗣💬
#ELT #multilingualism
Glad you found it engaging
Job alert!
3 tenured research positions at CNRS, France with one preferably in philosophy of language
Get in touch with a lab for more information
#linguistics
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One more week to nominate an outstanding early-career researcher for the Lila R. Gleitman Prize.
Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-pri... to learn more and nominate! #GleitmanPrize
Are you a primary teacher/leader interesting in applying oracy education in a socially just and inclusive way? Join me for a workshop in January. Attendance is free & you will receive £30 as recognition of the expertise you bring. See link for more info & booking: forms.office.com/e/TBLZHgkWfn...
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 🤗
If you are in Sydney on Dec 8, join us for a 1-day research symposium to explore new technologies in intercultural communication: how do migrants and international students use AI to manage life in a new country? how do language learners use social media?
www.languageonthemove.com/event-new-te...
NEW FROM 54(4)
"Constraints, suffering, and surfacing repertoires among Gambian migrants in Italy" by @marcosantello.bsky.social
#Migration #Constraints #Gambia #Italy
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My favourite quote from the book:
"The main challenges of intercultural communication are the linguistic challenges of language learning, the discursive challenges of stereotyping, and the social challenges of inclusion and justice"
Today is the #europeandayoflanguages happy to be in Berlin for this open conversation www.circle-u.eu/events/2025/...
Now in issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@languageinsociety.bsky.social
Linked to this a podcast on @languageonthemove.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/migration-co...
#aia32 Day 2 starts with Caroline Tagg telling us all about " #Postdigital intimacies in the #Anglosphere: Implications for human connection and English language practices". We may or may not be allowed to check our mobiles during her plenary lecture!
Our parade of #AIA32 plenary speakers concludes with Caroline Tagg, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at #OpenUniversity and current #BAAL Chair. Her widely recognized research focuses on digital communication practices.
Click here for further info profiles.open.ac.uk/caroline-tagg
I cannot read it entirely, but it seems that they are organising a course of Sardinian in this part of the island
“[…] the maintenance of transnational social relations through digital connectivity creates spaces where specific language practices are developed” (Lexander & Androutsopoulos 2023: 199)
Fresh off the press: academic.oup.com/applij/issue... including my work on repositioning time as central to the experience of #migration in relation to #language. Migration goes beyond the present time.
This now out, all xi+923 pages of it. Jeroen Darquennes, the lead editor was *really* the lead editor on this.
Great. I'm signed up.
