I got to be in the guest seat this time on the latest @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast episode hosted by the fabulous @empacheco.bsky.social !

Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics

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...

Teaching English Pronunciation In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Lindsay McMahon, founder of the All Ears English Podcast, about pronunciation teaching for global English.  What does it…

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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Super happy to see our paper (w/ @riannawalcott.bsky.social) in Journal of Sociolinguistics: "‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’ 🧵

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How a Small Exchange Between Mamdani and AOC Disrupts Raciolinguistic Hierarchies and Makes Another Linguistic World Visible In a recent video, Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are standing together as he works through a Spanish-language announcement about how caregivers can register their children for childcare.

I can’t stop thinking about a short video of Mamdani working through a Spanish-language announcement with AOC's help.

So many US Latinxs grew up having our Spanish policed. This moment treated it as expertise instead.

I wrote about why that matters.
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“X (Twitter) is just Versailles” is such an important point made by @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social. Well said, Adrian and Moira!

Do I know any fabulous linguists here who would like to have a convo with me about the use of Spanish in Bad Bunny’s halftime show? Asking for a future podcast episode 😀

Digital mutual aid among migrants, in the shadow of ChatGPT For nearly four years now, I’ve been heavily involved in online (Telegram-based) communities for Ukrainian forced migrants in Austria. Such communities sprang up all across Europe after Russia’s fu…

After our end-of-year publishing break, Language on the Move is back with an important post about how ChatGPT can actually weaken migrant mutual aid efforts, by @schenior.bsky.social

Another example where GenAI is useful in theory but damaging in reality

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Language on the Move Podcast wins Talkley Award 2025 Final piece of good news for the year before we head into a publishing break over January: we’ve just heard that the Language-on-the-Move Podcast has won the 2025 Talkley Award 🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🏻 Th…

So proud of our @languageonthemove.bsky.social team and our podcast! Thank you to the @auslingsoc.bsky.social Australian Linguistic Society for this meaningful award! www.languageonthemove.com/language-on-...

Amazing!!! Congratulations 🎉 and thanks for being a fabulous ambassador for everything the study of linguistics can and should be!

Breaking out quills and parchment soon over here.

Hey book community friends, new reading challenge just dropped! ☺️

The recs span from academic (mine is "Doing Digital Migration Studies", - amazing but not quite a bedside table read 😁) all the way to fantasy novels (@brynnquick.bsky.social rec'd The Winternight Trilogy 😍😍). Something for everyone!

Policies increasingly acknowledge multilingual realities but neglect to imagine the language work that is involved and how to build it into workflows in healthcare and elsewhere, as this new article by @brynnquick.bsky.social etal shows

Behind paywall until Jan & OA afterwards

Thank you!! As you can tell by my exclamation marks, I’m very excited!!! 😀

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....

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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Your languages are your superpower! In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Cindy Valdez, an English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) specialist, and Founder & CEO of Teach To Learn, a…

In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, @agib.bsky.social chats with Cindy Valdez about how to best support the education of multilingual children
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Oh now this is 💯 facts.

Left is kiki, right is bouba!

I got a few glares, so I’ll need to wear it more often 😉

Playing the game where I wear this shirt around my 84%-English-only-speaking small Australian town today.

I've started a Starter Pack for the Language on the Move research community 🥳
For members of the research group, contributors to the blog/podcast.
Please shout out if you're part of the LOTM community and I'll add you/tag suggestions (or lmk if you're on there but would prefer not to be)

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…

Are you a teacher in Sydney, Australia? Can you help my student with with this research? www.languageonthemove.com/language-bro...

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
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This was a fantastic interview- really recommend a listen.

Migration is about every human challenge In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with writer, illustrator, filmmaker and Academy Award winner Shaun Tan. Shaun is best known for illustrated books that deal w…

I am so fortunate to have been able to interview Shaun Tan about his beautiful book “The Arrival” for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. www.languageonthemove.com/migration-is...

Excuse me why have I only JUST NOW heard of/started listening to @annehelen.bsky.social’s Culture Study Podcast? What a fabulous and educational podcast! 10/10 stars, would highly recommend.

My 10-year-old says “search it up” all the time!

I wrote a guide on how to manage your supervisor (and yourself!) during your PhD 😀

Ok this has made my week! Thank you, Termy! And feel free to tell the student to reach out to me any time if they want to chat 😀