Reducing Barriers to Language Assistance in Hospital
Brynn Quick speaks with Erin Mulpur about how hospitals can better support patients from linguistic minority backgrounds. The conversation addresses the barriers to both communication and healthcare f...
25 Mar 202423min
Interpreting Service Provision is Good Value for Money
Ingrid Piller speaks with Jim Hlavac about interpreting to bridge language barriers. About 5% of the Australian population do not speak English or do not speak it well. In this conversation, Dr Jim Hl...
18 Mar 202442min
What Does It Mean to Govern a Multilingual Society Well?
Hanna Torsh speaks with Alexandra Grey about good governance in linguistically diverse cities. Linguistic diversity is often seen through a deficit lens. Another way of saying this is that it's percei...
22 Feb 202430min
What Can Australian Message Sticks Teach Us About Literacy?
Ingrid Piller speaks with Piers Kelly about a fascinating form of visual communication, Australian message sticks. What does a message stick look like? What is its purpose, and how has the use of mess...
21 Feb 202448min
How to Teach TESOL Ethically in an English-Dominant World
Carla Chamberlin and Mak Khan speak with Ingrid Piller about linguistic diversity and social justice. We discuss whether US native speakers of English can teach English ethically; how migrant parents ...
20 Feb 20241h 3min
Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?
Ingrid Piller speaks with Aneta Pavlenko about multilingualism through the ages. We start from the question whether the world today is more multilingual than it was ever before. Spoiler alert: we quic...
19 Feb 20241h 12min
Language Makes the Place
Ingrid Piller speaks with Adam Jaworski about his research in language and mobility. Adam is best known for his work on “linguascaping” – how languages, or bits of languages, are used to stylize a pla...
18 Feb 202454min
Linguistic Diversity in Education: A Discussion with Ingrid Gogolin
Hanna Torsh speaks with Ingrid Gogolin about linguistic diversity in education. Why is linguistic diversity important in creating educational equity? How is the migrant experience different across dif...
17 Feb 202431min
