Emotions in Digital Heritage Language Use
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Emotions in Digital Heritage Language Use

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202632 min
  • Interview
  • Language learning

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah chats with Dr. Priyanka Bose. Priyanka is a lecturer in English Literacy Education at the School of Education at Western Sydney University, Australia and winner of the 2026 Michael Clyne Prize for outstanding postgraduate research into immigrant bilingualism and language contact. Tazin and Priyanka talk about Priyanka’s research into heritage language maintenance amongst Bengali speakers in Australia and how emotions play a decisive role in sustaining heritage language use via digital means. Their conversation about Bengali transnational families explores how grandparents and grandchildren use all the...

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Welcome to the New Books Network. Welcome to the Language on the Move podcast, a channel on the New Books Network. My name is Tazina Bdalla and I'm a PhD researcher in linguistics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

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My guest today is Dr. Priyanka Bose. Priyanka is a lecturer in English literacy education at the School of Education at Western Sydney University, Australia. She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales.

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Her PhD thesis about digital media communications amongst Bengali-speaking transnational families in Australia is the winner of the 2026 Michael Klein Prize. The Michael Klein Prize, jointly administered by the Australian Linguistic Society

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