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
Translanguaging: A Discussion with Ofelia Garcia
Loy Lising speaks with Ofelia García about translanguaging. The conversation addresses 3 big questions: What is translanguaging? How is translanguaging different from codeswitching? What are the pe...
16 Feb 202423min
Lies We Tell Ourselves about the History of Multilingualism
Ingrid Piller speaks with Aneta Pavlenko about her new book Multilingualism and History (Cambridge UP, 2023). We often hear that our world 'is more multilingual than ever before', but is it true? This...
15 Feb 202456min
