Piller Nordand2019
Channel: Language on the Move
Date: 2020-06-04

In this keynote lecture for the 14th conference on Nordic Languages as a Second Language (NORDAND 14, 2019, University of Copenhagen, https://nors.ku.dk/english/calendar/2019/nordand14/), Professor Ingrid Piller discusses the politicization of migrant language learning.

Summary: Debates about migrant language learning are not about language but about the social consequences of language. Ultimately, language is a social justice issue. Our contribution as researchers and educators must be to examine where and how language is a social justice issue and what less harmful linguistic arrangements look like.