Language on the Move
Episodes
Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Professor David Palfreyman (United Arab Emirates University, Al A...
The (Un)imagined Work of Linguistic Inclusion
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with PhD candidate Brynn Quick (Macquarie University, Australia) about h...
Older Adults Learning English in Berlin
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Katharina Gensch (University of Hamburg) about her new paper "English la...
Teaching English Pronunciation
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 pronunc...
Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah talks to Dr. Laura Rademaker (Australian National University), the author of Found ...
Your Languages Are Your Superpower
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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) speci...
Australia‘s National Indigenous Languages Survey
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Alexandra Grey speaks with Zoe Avery, a Worimi woman and a Research Officer at the Centre for...
Arriving in a New Country
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks writer, illustrator, filmmaker and Academy Award winner Shaun Tan. Shaun i...
Cold Rush
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Sari Pietikainen about her new book Cold Rush (Palgrave Macmillan,...
Sexual Imperialism and English Language Teaching
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Vaughan Rapatahana about sexual predation in the English language ...
Intercultural Communication
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Loy Lising speaks with Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her be...
Erased Voices and Unspoken Heritage
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Alexandra Grey speaks with Dr Zozan Balci about Zozan’s new book, Erased Voices and Un...
The Social Impact of Automating Translation
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Inter...
Multilingual Practices and Monolingual Mindsets
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Jinhyun Cho. Dr. Cho has guested on this show previously, and sh...
Improving Quality of Care for Patients with Limited English
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Leah Karliner. Dr. Karliner is Professor in Residence in the Divi...
Chinese in Qatar
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Sara Hillman, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Engli...
Accents, Complex Identities, and Politics
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Nicole Holliday. Dr. Holliday is a sociophonetician and Associate...
Is Beach Safety Signage Fit For Purpose?
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We often take the meaning of signs for granted but that's far from the case in a linguistically and culturally diverse society. The instruction to "Sw...
The Case for ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Associate Professor Su Kyong Isakson (Community College of Baltimor...
Christian Ilbury, "Researching Language and Digital Communication" (Routledge, 2025)
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Christian Ilbury about his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide, published by Rout...
Gestures and Emblems: A Discussion with Lauren Gawne
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Lauren Gawne, about cross-cultural variation in gesture use. In this episode, Brynn and Lauren discuss a paper that Laur...
Lingua Napoletana and Language Oppression
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever heard of Lingua Napoletana or Neapolitan, the language of Naples? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah s...
Teaching International Students in Australia
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Agi Bodis and Dr Jing Fang about international tertiary student...
Intercultural Competence in the Digital Age
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Amy McHugh, an Academic Facilitator at the National Centre for Cultural Competence at the University of Sydney. Dr McHugh...
Multilingual Law-Making: A Discussion with Karen McAuliffe
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Grey speaks with Karen McAuliffe about multilingual law-making. Karen is a Professor of Law and Language at Birmingham Law School in the ...
Educational Inequality in Fijian Higher Education
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar about his new book, English Language...
Multilingual Crisis Communication
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Jia Li, Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at Yunnan Universi...
The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Gerald Roche, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics,...
Why Teachers Turn to AI
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Sue Ollerhead. Dr. Ollerhead is currently a Senior Lecturer in L...
Language Rights in a Changing China
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Alexandra Grey about Dr. Grey’s book entitled Language Right...
Whiteness, Accents, and Children's Media
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Laura Smith-Khan about language and accents in children’s med...
Creaky Voice in Australian English
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Hannah White, a Postdoc researcher at Macquarie University in the ...
Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can school communications become more accessible to multilingual families? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis ...
Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, ...
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination...
How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Rizwan Ahmad, Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department o...
Migration, Constraints, and Suffering
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doing. In this episode, Ingrid Piller speaks with ...
Transnational Communicative Care
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Tor...
Police First Responders Interacting with Domestic Violence Victims
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Kate Steel, Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the We...
Remembering Barbara Horvath: A Discussion with Livia Gerber
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The sociolinguistics community, particularly in Australia and the US, mourns the recent passing of pioneering sociolinguist Barbara Horvath. To honor ...
Jinhyun Cho, "English Language Ideologies in Korea: Interpreting the Past and Present" (Springer, 2017)
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Jinhyun Cho, Senior Lecturer in the Translation and Interpreting Program of the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie ...
Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her book, Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Famil...
Muslim Literacies in China
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr Ibrar Bhatt about heritage literacies, particularly as they are practiced by Chinese Muslims. Bhatt is the author of ...
Life in a New Language, Part 6: Citizenship
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...
Life in a New Language, Part 5: Monolingual Mindset
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...
Language Policy at an Abortion Clinic
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Ella van Hest (Ghent University, Belgium) about her ethnographic research related to language diversity at an abortion ...
Life in a New Language, Part 4: Parenting
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...
Life in a New Language, Part 3: African Migrants
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...
Life in a New Language, Part 2: Work
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language (Oxford UP, 2024) is a new ...
Life in a New Language, Part 1: Identities
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...
Gretchen McCulloch, "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" (Riverhead Books, 2020)
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with best-selling author and linguist Gretchen McCulloch about her 2019 New York Times bestselling book Because Internet: Under...
Jessica Leigh Kirkness, "The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a Language of Light" (Allen & Unwin, 2023)
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Pacheco speaks with writer and researcher Jessica Kirkness about her memoir, The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, ...
The Rise of English
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language, which has just been reissued in paperback by Oxford University Press, with a new prefa...
Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talked to Joseph Lo Bianco about the edited volume Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education (Routledge, 2023). The...
The Shanghai Alliance of Multilingual Researchers
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yixi (Isabella) Qiu speaks with Professor Yongyan Zheng about The Shanghai Alliance of Multilingual Researchers. The interview explores the Allian...
Multilingual Commanding Urgency from Garbage to COVID-19
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Michael Chesnut, Professor in the Department of English for International Conferences and Communication at Hankuk Univer...
Elizabeth Peterson, "Making Sense of 'Bad English': An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies" (Routledge, 2019)
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of English. The conversa...
James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Piller speaks with James McElvenny about his new book A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II (Edinburgh UP, ...
40 years of Croatian Studies at Macquarie University
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Piller speaks with Jasna Novak Milić, the director of the Croatian Studies Center at Macquarie University. The Croatian Studies Center at Ma...
Reducing Barriers to Language Assistance in Hospital
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Erin Mulpur about how hospitals can better support patients from linguistic minority backgrounds. The conversation addresse...
Interpreting Service Provision is Good Value for Money
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Piller speaks with Jim Hlavac about interpreting to bridge language barriers. About 5% of the Australian population do not speak English or ...
What Does It Mean to Govern a Multilingual Society Well?
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hanna Torsh speaks with Alexandra Grey about good governance in linguistically diverse cities. Linguistic diversity is often seen through a deficit...
What Can Australian Message Sticks Teach Us About Literacy?
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Piller speaks with Piers Kelly about a fascinating form of visual communication, Australian message sticks. What does a message stick look l...
How to Teach TESOL Ethically in an English-Dominant World
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carla Chamberlin and Mak Khan speak with Ingrid Piller about linguistic diversity and social justice. We discuss whether US native speakers of En...
Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Piller speaks with Aneta Pavlenko about multilingualism through the ages. We start from the question whether the world today is more multili...
Language Makes the Place
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Piller speaks with Adam Jaworski about his research in language and mobility. Adam is best known for his work on “linguascaping” – how...
Linguistic Diversity in Education: A Discussion with Ingrid Gogolin
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hanna Torsh speaks with Ingrid Gogolin about linguistic diversity in education. Why is linguistic diversity important in creating educational equit...
Translanguaging: A Discussion with Ofelia Garcia
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Loy Lising speaks with Ofelia García about translanguaging. The conversation addresses 3 big questions: What is translanguaging? How is translan...
Lies We Tell Ourselves about the History of Multilingualism
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Piller speaks with Aneta Pavlenko about her new book Multilingualism and History (Cambridge UP, 2023). We often hear that our world 'is mo...