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Linguistic penalty in the job interview
Success levels of different candidate groups in job interviews for low-skilled jobs (Source: Roberts 2013, p. 89) A common explanation for the un- and underemployment of migrants is that their English...
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Superdiversity: another Eurocentric idea?
Website of the German Club Montevideo, founded in 1866 The current issue of Begegnung (“Encounter”), the magazine of German International Schools, has a feature about the German School in Montevideo,...
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Bodies on the Move: Salsa, Language and Transnationalism
Schneider, Britta. 2014. Salsa, Language and Transnationalism. Multilingual Matters. In my post on English in Berlin, I wondered what is required for a language to become ‘local’, and about the perhaps...
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Multilingual mismatch
Auburn parking ticket (left: quadrilingual on back; right: city logo on front) In Australia with its persistent monolingual mindset coming across any kind of official institutional multilingual...
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How the presence of a bilingual school changes the linguistic profile of a...
German International School Sydney It is one of the great narratives of our time that the market will fix everything. In education this means that parental choice is assumed to improve education....
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Language deficit in super-diversity
Linguistic diversity in Sydney (Source: Sydney Morning Herald) The media in Anglophone countries regularly engage in a bit of a bragfest about the linguistic diversity of their cities. In Sydney, where...
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Language work in the internet café
A locutorio shop front in Barcelona (Source: El Periodico) There is now a well-established body of work exploring the language work provided by service workers in call centres and tourist businesses....
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What’s in a name?
Annastacia Palaszczuk and members of her family (Source: Couriermail) Would Kirk Douglas be a Hollywood legend if he had kept his birth name Issur Danielovitch? Would Bob Dylan have achieved global...
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The native speaker concept
In my own research, I have frequently run into difficulty in talking about a ‘native speaker’. What criteria must be met to be ‘native’? How can I, as a researcher, make any determination about fluency...
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Workshop: Language and migration
Linguistic diversity is valued in this school (Photo Courtesy of Angela Turzynski-Azimi) The 46th annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) is being hosted by the University of...
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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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Language and migration workshop
Studying English (©Sadami Konchi) The program for the “Language and Migration” workshop in Parramatta on Friday, December 11, 2015 is now available. The workshop is part of the 46th annual conference...
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Linguistic penalty in the job interview
Success levels of different candidate groups in job interviews for low-skilled jobs (Source: Roberts 2013, p. 89) A common explanation for the un- and underemployment of migrants is that their English...
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Superdiversity: another Eurocentric idea?
Website of the German Club Montevideo, founded in 1866 The current issue of Begegnung (“Encounter”), the magazine of German International Schools, has a feature about the German School in Montevideo,...
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Bodies on the Move: Salsa, Language and Transnationalism
Schneider, Britta. 2014. Salsa, Language and Transnationalism. Multilingual Matters. In my post on English in Berlin, I wondered what is required for a language to become ‘local’, and about the perhaps...
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Multilingual mismatch
Auburn parking ticket (left: quadrilingual on back; right: city logo on front) In Australia with its persistent monolingual mindset coming across any kind of official institutional multilingual...
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How the presence of a bilingual school changes the linguistic profile of a...
German International School Sydney It is one of the great narratives of our time that the market will fix everything. In education this means that parental choice is assumed to improve education....
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Language deficit in super-diversity
Linguistic diversity in Sydney (Source: Sydney Morning Herald) The media in Anglophone countries regularly engage in a bit of a bragfest about the linguistic diversity of their cities. In Sydney, where...
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Language work in the internet café
A locutorio shop front in Barcelona (Source: El Periodico) There is now a well-established body of work exploring the language work provided by service workers in call centres and tourist businesses....
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Ways of seeing
January 26, Australia Day: whether you are celebrating depends on your perspective (Source: news.com.au) Here in Australia we celebrated our national holiday yesterday. Australia Day marks the end of...
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