Ingrid Piller receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Humboldt Foundation. The Australian government is considering yet another English language test for migrants. The rationale ...

English speakers and students who speak another language at home together in the same classroom - may modestly reduce school ...

I am often asked why English is such a difficult to learn for non-native speakers. In fact, how hard it is to learn depends on what your native language is; and this follows as languages are more (or ...