It is an underlying principle of AER 54 that active efforts should be made to cultivate the
latent bilingual potential within Australia's wider population and that this should be linked to …

Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and
notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional …

Aim: To explore Vietnamese–Australian children's proficiency and use of Vietnamese and
English and identify associated factors that are related to demographics, language practices …

Social inclusion policy in Australia has largely ignored key issues of communication for
linguistic minorities, across communities and with the mainstream community. In the (now …

Purpose Speech-language pathologists work with increasing numbers of multilingual
speakers; however, even when the same languages are spoken, multilingual speakers are …

In the study of language maintenance and shift for migrant groups in Australia, scholars
have tended to focus on how personal factors or aspects of life in the host society shape …

Given the implicit disincentive that the native knowledge of a global language poses to the
learning of other languages, improvement in student recruitment in language studies is a …

Due to the 'global English bias' in the field of L2 motivation, many motivational constructs
have been primarily investigated in relation to learners of English. One of these …

Home language maintenance is of importance in culturally and linguistically diverse
societies including Australia, where more than 300 languages are spoken and over one-fifth …

This special issue of the journal is dedicated to the memory of Michael Clyne. The papers
published here were originally presented at a roundtable organised by the Language and …