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Ingrid Piller
Macquarie University, Sydney
'Why don't migrants learn English if they want to live here?' is one of those sentiments you'll have come across a lot if you've spent much time on Twitter. Maybe it's even flittered across your own mind from time to time. But, as Dr Ingrid Piller explains, just learning a language isn't as simple as that.
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30 Aug 2019
Ingrid Piller despairs of the rise of banal cosmopolitanism
10 Apr 2018
Enforcing reading on small children - and treating books as unclean - risks putting kids off literacy before they've even started, worries Ingrid Piller.
25 Aug 2017
Stories from Australia and the US reveal how dangerous it can be when listeners fail to take people seriously because of their accented English.
29 Mar 2017
You might think we're past the point where we treated people from different cultures as something to stare at. Ingrid Piller isn't so sure.
30 Nov 2016
With the monoglot Brits no longer trotting in to Brussels, will English start to loosen its grip on the EU - and beyond?
01 Jul 2016
Teachers who can only speak one language can, through the Golem Effect, hurt students who are able to communicate in more than a single tongue, explains Ingrid Piller.
01 Jun 2016