Interested in the latest research on #language brokering, linguistic diversity and language barriers but too busy?
Applied Linguistics students @MQLinguistics have read some important articles in the field for you and offer an intro in this 🧵#langtwt #Linguistics
1/18 Young bilingual children have the ability to manipulate linguistic inputs in order to break through language barriers in classrooms. Allowing peer interactions in multiple languages may help them develop cognitive and communication abilities!
2/18
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Inga Clendinnen "Dancing with Strangers"

In this thread students @MQLinguistics read Clendinnen's historical #ethnography based on the diaries of the officers of the 1st fleet to learn about #InterculturalCommunication between British colonizers and Sydney's Indigenous people #DancingWithStrangers is a story of confusion and ignorance of #culture #language, aspirations, traditions and #law
One of the most tragic figures is Baneelon, an Australian kidnapped by Governor Phillip and taught English in a desperate attempt to create an intermediary.

In this thread students @MQLinguistics
@Macquarie_Uni share what they've learned so far (1st quarter of semester)

⬇️⬇️⬇️Favorite facts about #literacies ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Learning about message sticks is my favorite. When thinking about message sticks from a #literacies perspective, they seem very modern.
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In this thread 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼students @MQLinguistics @Macquarie_Uni share what they've learned so far (1st quarter of semester)

Favorite facts about #languages and #cultures in #contact In #Arabic we say: “Footprints indicate trajectory”, but I never thought that a wheel would reveal a culture. This is how #cultures can be traced through #languages. The reading made me feel like I am solving a puzzle more than exploring languages.

💫10 secrets to #writing fabulous academic assignments ✨

A quick thread for #AppliedLinguistics #TESOL and #Literacies students @MQLinguistics, and anyone else who's sweating over an academic assignment Secret #1: Figure out what you have to do!

What is the task? What are the expectations and requirements?

Happy #StarTrekDay! 🖖🏼🖖🏼🖖🏼

Here are our top #StarTrek #language and #communication fun facts 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 #StarTrek #language and #communication fun fact:

#Klingon is an object-verb-subject language (instead of "Klingons cherish their honor" >>> "Their honor cherish Klingons")

****Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis****

Special issue of Multilingua addresses #language challenges of #COVID19 pandemic

Out now. All papers free access, thanks to publisher @dg_mouton

degruyter.com/view/journals/… Global public health #communication is characterized by the large-scale exclusion of linguistic minorities from timely high-quality #information #COVID19

What are the #language regimes behind these exclusions and what can sociolinguists do?

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In this thread 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼students of #Literacies unit @MQLinguistics @Macquarie_Uni share what they've learned so far (1st quarter of semester)

Favorite facts about #literacy

#Literacy is dynamic, continually developing and unfolds in new and unexpected ways. Learning the inception of #writing and its trajectory to the forms we use now has me excited to observe how literacy continues to develop in the future

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Do you think #English is a linguistic juggernaut?

You're right but spare a thought for the #Latin #alphabet - the greatest linguistic superpower of all times

More #languages and people use the #Latin #script than all other scripts combined #Languages that use the #Latin script have official or co-official status in many countries around the world

Listen up, boys and girls, because I'm going to tell you the story of the greatest inventors of all times: the inventors of #writing

Can you imagine a world without writing? No writing on screens, no writing on paper, no writing on stone, no writing on clay tables, nothing ... To meet the inventors of #writing, we have to travel back in time a few thousand years to the first city states, such as Uruk, in what is today southern Iraq

Their newly emerging complex urban society needed a way to keep records of things like who had paid how much tax

Did you know that Language-on-the-Move has an archive of posts related to #language and #racism?

Our #Top10 favorite posts about language and #race outside the USA, in the thread below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

languageonthemove.com/tag/racism/ Can a universal concept of #Orientalism explain the diverse representation of non-Europeans by Europeans and the subsequent multiple forms of cultural engagement ranging from clashes to cooperation? @gegentuul

languageonthemove.com/one-orientalis…

To what degree is the person of the researcher in the #research? In our latest #RECLAS #ethics rant @HannaEK6 @uniofjyvaskyla reflects on researcher positionality

languageonthemove.com/coming-to-term… This closes our mini series on #ResearchEthics in #AppliedLinguistics by researchers from the #RECLAS center at @uniofjyvaskyla

In previous post, @HondtSigurd explored the implications of #GDPR for #ethnography and data collection in public spaces

languageonthemove.com/22601-2/

Are you a #sociolinguist conducting research on #multilingualism #InterculturalCommunication #LinguisticDiversity #Language in contexts of #migration and #globalization?

Have you considered publishing your #research in #Multilingua @dg_mouton?

degruyter.com/view/journals/… #Multilingua @dg_mouton is currently strengthening its focus on #LanguagePolicy. To this end, two experts on #language and #law have joined our editorial board: @Alex_Grey_ @SydneyLawSchool and @LauraSKh @UTSLaw

degruyter.com/view/journals/…

As in the early 19th century, the nature of #knowledge itself is being transformed in fundamental ways in the early 21st century

3 key challenges of contemporary #research #communication 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/jou… During #Humboldt’s time, scientific inquiry and rational thought became foundational to the constitution of #knowledge. Today, we see the relegation of #science to one opinion among many, in debates over matters
ranging from #ClimateChange to #Vaccination
royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/jou…

Sharing knowledge in the spirit of #Humboldt: papers from last year's symposium @Macquarie_Uni now available in special issue open-access, Journal of Royal Society of NSW about challenges of #research #Communication @AvHStiftung

royalsoc.org.au/council-member… Ingrid Piller @MQLinguistics reflects on #Humboldt’s legacy as a #research communicator and identifies
contemporary #challenges of research #communication, #dissemination, and #impact

royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/jou…

Weekend readings on #language aspects of the #COVIDー19 pandemic from Australia, China, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, and South Africa

languageonthemove.com/tag/covid-19/ How can public #health messages related to #COVIDー19 in #multilingual #Australia be improved? by @Alex_Grey_ @SydneyLawSchool

languageonthemove.com/how-to-improve…

Do you also notice that social sciences and humanities knowledge is largely absent from #COVID__19 response?

In this free open access pamphlet 12 global thinkers reflect on the crisis degruyter.com/fileasset/craf…

#migration #language #history #inequality #tourism #globalization Historian Bryan Turner asks how #COVID19 will define our generation

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#Language inequality during #COVID

"It takes 10 minutes of sitting on the phone to get an #interpreter, and that’s valuable time when you’re inundated. So this utilitarian calculus kicks in. And the patients that are most mainstream get the best care.”

propublica.org/article/hospit… Worthwhile to compare Chinese and US responses to #Covid_19 crisis on many levels, including the provision of #language services

languageonthemove.com/language-lesso…

Dear #sociolinguists, with everyone feeling overwhelmed by #COVIDー19 do what you do best and make a research contribution!

CfP for special issue of #Multilingua @dg_mouton: Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on COVID-19

languageonthemove.com/linguistic-div… The above is on top of ongoing call for research blogposts related to #language challenges raised by #Coronavirus epidemic on languageonthemove.com

#multilingualism #InterculturalCommunication #LinguisticLandscape #LanguagePolicy #LinguisticDiversity #AccessibleCommunication

The Language-on-the-Move #InternationalWomensDay2020 post asks why there are so few female full professors in #highered

Check out our previous #IWD posts, too 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

https://twitter.com/Lg_on_the_Move/status/1236492321597706240

Why are there so few notable academic women?
Hint: women high achievers are much more likely to be ignored
#WomensDay

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The #Language-on-the-Move #ReadingChallenge2020 is now out. If you don't have time to hop over to its page, find the #ReadingChallenge below in a series of 10 quick tweets

@MQLinguistics

languageonthemove.com/language-on-th… February #ReadingChallenge2020: a book about the #ClimateEmergency - not strictly about #language but it's impossible to do #linguistics when your house is on fire

@NaomiAKlein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, or #ONFIRE