Hanna Torsh
@htorsh.bsky.social
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at Macquarie University, Wallumattagal Campus, Australia
Are you a teacher in Sydney, Australia? Can you help my student with with this research? www.languageonthemove.com/language-bro...
Language brokering in schools
Are you a Sydney-based teacher who needs to communicate with parents who do not speak English or do not speak it well? Do you sometimes have to ask students to translate for you to communicate with…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Are you a teacher in Sydney, Australia? Can you help my student with with this research? www.languageonthemove.com/language-bro...
“I just want people to know that AI is being sold as this tech magic – that’s why there’s a little sparkle symbol next to an AI response,” said Sawyer. “But it’s not. It’s built on the backs of overworked, underpaid human beings.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
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September 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
“I just want people to know that AI is being sold as this tech magic – that’s why there’s a little sparkle symbol next to an AI response,” said Sawyer. “But it’s not. It’s built on the backs of overworked, underpaid human beings.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
September 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
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I was explaining a treatment plan to a patient, and their partner told me to talk slowly because they were typing what I was saying into chatgpt to "verify" there wasn't a better alternative. In case you are wondering the stage of mess we are in with LLMs.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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Man who asked ChatGPT about cutting out salt from his diet was hospitalized with hallucinations
A case study in a medical journal reported that the 60-year-old man replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide after consulting the AI bot.
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August 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I was explaining a treatment plan to a patient, and their partner told me to talk slowly because they were typing what I was saying into chatgpt to "verify" there wasn't a better alternative. In case you are wondering the stage of mess we are in with LLMs.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Great to see the ABC exploring this issue! @louisawilloughby.bsky.social
"The problem with English tests" a good explainer from the ABC on visa related language requirements
The problem with Australia's English test requirements for work and study visas | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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August 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Great to see the ABC exploring this issue! @louisawilloughby.bsky.social
It’s a real pleasure to witness that the Australian applied linguistics community is expanding & leading the world in diversity, equity, and "kindness". www.routledge.com/Multilingual...
August 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Participants needed for research on innovative grammar in Australian English.
It will involve an anonymous online questionnaire that will take approximately 5-15 minutes to complete.
It will involve an anonymous online questionnaire that will take approximately 5-15 minutes to complete.
Acceptability and use of grammatical innovation in Australian English
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August 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Participants needed for research on innovative grammar in Australian English.
It will involve an anonymous online questionnaire that will take approximately 5-15 minutes to complete.
It will involve an anonymous online questionnaire that will take approximately 5-15 minutes to complete.
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
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August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
I just listened to this remarkable episode of the podcast on machine translation and an ethics of care, from my colleague @tazinabdullah.bsky.social with the inspirational Dr Esther Monzó-Nebot. A broad-ranging and poetic discussion with a rousing call to reminagine the research in this space.
Are there social impacts of relying on AI for translations? Are AI translations neutral and inclusive? I discuss these and more in this very insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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The Social Impact of Automating Translation
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Catalun…
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August 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I just listened to this remarkable episode of the podcast on machine translation and an ethics of care, from my colleague @tazinabdullah.bsky.social with the inspirational Dr Esther Monzó-Nebot. A broad-ranging and poetic discussion with a rousing call to reminagine the research in this space.
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@htorsh.bsky.social and I are working on a project examining exactly these raciolinguistic, monoglossic ideologies in Australian media coverage. Every day we find new examples! Read the comment section if you dare 😅 www.facebook.com/share/19Amis... 3/3
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May 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
@htorsh.bsky.social and I are working on a project examining exactly these raciolinguistic, monoglossic ideologies in Australian media coverage. Every day we find new examples! Read the comment section if you dare 😅 www.facebook.com/share/19Amis... 3/3
How are parents using digital technologies to pass on languages? And does this change who does the work?
Read my latest article on this topics here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Read my latest article on this topics here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The digital shift in parental strategies for heritage language maintenance
Research shows that language maintenance of migrant heritage languages correlates with positive social outcomes [Han, W.-J., and C.-C. Huang. 2010. “The Forgotten Treasure: Bilingualism and Asian C...
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April 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
How are parents using digital technologies to pass on languages? And does this change who does the work?
Read my latest article on this topics here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Read my latest article on this topics here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In this episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar, an academic based in the Graduate Research School at the University of New England, Armidale. www.languageonthemove.com/educational-... @languageonthemove.bsky.social
Educational inequality in Fijian higher education
In this episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar, an academic based in the Graduate Research School at the University of New England, Arm…
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February 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
In this episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar, an academic based in the Graduate Research School at the University of New England, Armidale. www.languageonthemove.com/educational-... @languageonthemove.bsky.social
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Our second article then goes on to explore how this foundation connects with suspicion at the border, and encourages bordering and suspicion in everyday life
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Trust at the border: identifying risk and assessing credibility on reality television
Every day, officers working at international airports investigate potential risks to state safety and security. But how do they decide who they can trust, and also ensure that the broader public trus...
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February 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Our second article then goes on to explore how this foundation connects with suspicion at the border, and encourages bordering and suspicion in everyday life
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Seems timely to reshare this..
Securing the borders of English and Whiteness - Ingrid Piller, Hanna Torsh, Laura Smith-Khan, 2023
This article examines how racial and linguistic identities are constructed on the Australian reality TV show Border Security. Based on an analysis of 108 episod...
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February 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Seems timely to reshare this..
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Our 2024 chapter "The monolingual habitus of the multilingual school as a barrier to educational equity" builds on it, with @htorsh.bsky.social & @agib.bsky.social
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The monolingual habitus of the multilingual school as a barrier to edu
This chapter engages with questions of linguistic equity in education and provides an overview of linguistic barriers to inclusive education. Specifically, it
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January 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Our 2024 chapter "The monolingual habitus of the multilingual school as a barrier to educational equity" builds on it, with @htorsh.bsky.social & @agib.bsky.social
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
School funds delayed are funds denied www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
School funds delayed are funds denied
“School funding has become such a politically poisonous area that public schools have to be pathetically grateful for anything they get.” This is how Professor Helen Proctor, Sydney School of Educatio...
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February 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
School funds delayed are funds denied www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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He said: “Right now weapons are more needed, but in the long term it is the language that is crucial for Ukraine.”
He said: “Right now weapons are more needed, but in the long term it is the language that is crucial for Ukraine.”
‘Why should I study Russian?’ Ukraine lobbies UK to introduce Ukrainian GCSE
About 34,000 Ukrainian children have fled to UK since Russian invasion – yet are unable to study their mother tongue
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December 29, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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He said: “Right now weapons are more needed, but in the long term it is the language that is crucial for Ukraine.”
He said: “Right now weapons are more needed, but in the long term it is the language that is crucial for Ukraine.”
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“Ideally, AI would be helpful. But what’s happening is that companies are using it to justify adding more tasks.”
Call center workers say AI tools are monitoring their calls, assisting with customers, and scoring their performance. “AI is supposed to make our lives easier, but I just see it as my boss”
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AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse
BPO workers say AI tools are monitoring their calls, assisting them with customers, and scoring their performance.
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November 26, 2024 at 7:19 PM
“Ideally, AI would be helpful. But what’s happening is that companies are using it to justify adding more tasks.”
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I loved recording this @languageonthemove.bsky.social episode with Dr. Jinhyun Cho about English ideologies in Korea. We discuss how ways of speaking English in Korea index different class positions and how English has become part of female beauty standards! www.languageonthemove.com/english-ideo...
English ideologies in Korea
Did you know that the US is referred to as “Beautiful Country” in Korean? Or that different ways of speaking English index different class positions? Or that English has become part of …
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November 26, 2024 at 9:00 PM
I loved recording this @languageonthemove.bsky.social episode with Dr. Jinhyun Cho about English ideologies in Korea. We discuss how ways of speaking English in Korea index different class positions and how English has become part of female beauty standards! www.languageonthemove.com/english-ideo...
Even more evidence that Labor has never been the party of refugees and asylum seekers. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/883083...
Labor pushes three controversial migration bills
The government wants to pass laws giving it power to deport, confiscate mobiles in immigration detention and ban...
www.canberratimes.com.au
November 26, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Even more evidence that Labor has never been the party of refugees and asylum seekers. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/883083...
Insightful piece on Ai in education from my colleague Sue Ollerhead at Macquarie Univerisity. aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Teachers truly know students and how they learn. Does AI?
Teachers and AI: Can AI truly address all of the considerations essential to the inherently human and relational nature of teaching?
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November 26, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Insightful piece on Ai in education from my colleague Sue Ollerhead at Macquarie Univerisity. aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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New on Language-on-the-Move: Dr Pia Tenedero, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, shares her reflections on the Next Generation Literacies Network Conference at Hamburg University
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January 17, 2024 at 9:22 PM
New on Language-on-the-Move: Dr Pia Tenedero, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, shares her reflections on the Next Generation Literacies Network Conference at Hamburg University
www.languageonthemove.com/a-water-pers...
www.languageonthemove.com/a-water-pers...
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Heute folgt ein Kurzpodcast, es ist ein Eindruck von der Sektionstagung Erwachsenenbildung mit Prof. Dr. Carola Iller: www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/einrichtunge...
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#EB #EWB #LebenslangesLernen #AdultEducation
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#EB #EWB #LebenslangesLernen #AdultEducation
Lebenslanges Lernen - Der Podcast
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January 12, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Heute folgt ein Kurzpodcast, es ist ein Eindruck von der Sektionstagung Erwachsenenbildung mit Prof. Dr. Carola Iller: www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/einrichtunge...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3oytGVV...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/l...
#EB #EWB #LebenslangesLernen #AdultEducation
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3oytGVV...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/l...
#EB #EWB #LebenslangesLernen #AdultEducation