Abstracts archive

This presentation discusses tensions on language policies in Finnish higher education, reflecting on these from the position of Swedish. The results suggest that a combination of societal, higher education, and language policy developments have now challenged the Finnish higher education language po...

We present findings on the efficacy of a multilingual teaching approach to early English as a foreign language (EFL) in German primary schools. We outline the model, we report on its implementation in 4 schools for 6 months, and we discuss its effects on FL achievement.

Media and communication constantly develop, vary and, whence, modify texts and types of text. Daily mass-media news coverage is also subject to this process of change. In the case of television news, different patterns of news presentation and the practice of their implementation pertinent to certai...

This study investigated how future L2 faculty enrolled in an OER-embedded graduate course on multiliteracies and multimodality used their theoretical knowledge to develop and apply multimodal practices in a multimodal text and a multimodal text-based lesson they created. Findings reveal that thinkin...

The AILA Research Network entitled Trajectories and Perspectives of Language Teachers in the 21st Century (TPLang21) brings together 35 established language educators and researchers from 15 countries across five continents who work on information and communication technology (ICT) and (self-)empowe...

Everyday, we educators support post-truth practices by engaging in such small sacrifices of our integrity. We need to engage in a post truth pedagogy; this presentation will begin to articulate principles and practices to guide this post truth pedagogy

This presentation proposes eight principles (TERRIFIC) for language and critical thinking integrated instruction: targeting, evaluating, routinizing, reflecting, inquiring, fulfilling, integrating, and content. Implementing these principles will bring about teaching innovation and quality improvemen...

There is an extensive literature in the social and natural sciences that outlines biases and "errors" in the understanding of causal powers. However, there is less work on how (applied) linguists themselves fall into various "traps" when trying to assign cause and consequence to various linguistic p...

The session takes a hard look at the concept of diversity. Based on the tenet that ‘inclusive practice’ is a fundamental right for all children, it explores research findings into transformative classrooms and the role teachers play in enabling their learners to be and become pluriliterate globa...

This talk argues the case for moving beyond textbooks, given their enduring silence on key social issues. I report on how teachers and researchers have come together to design and produce materials which address gender and sexual diversity, and on the ways in which these are received by language lea...

This study focuses on how space was negotiated for different languages in real time during language-policy negotiations at a Swedish university. Tensions are revealed between the need for monolingualism (Swedish), parallel-language use (Swedish and English) and multilingualism (Swedish, English and ...

Based on an ethnographic study of educational activities for language revitalisation aiming at teaching Hungarian to children in North-East Romania, I argue that the practice of education can be better understood by invoking the perspectives of local speakers than by enacting the concept of named la...

This talk illustrates concerns about the replicability and reproducibility of applied linguistics research, with data from methodological syntheses documenting our reporting, transparency, and sampling practices. It will then outline steps we can take to improve the situation, including Registered R...

This case study investigates EFL learners' appropriation of written genres (e.g., statement of purpose, business letter) and student teachers' appropriation of their roles as task designers in a US-China virtual exchange. US-based participants designed technology-based writing tasks for implementati...

In this talk, Leung will discuss the concept and operationalization of plurilingualism and plurilingual mediation in the CEFR-CV (2020) and how this aligns to relevant data.

Integrating language with content instruction (e.g., sheltered instruction, CLIL, ESP) is growing worldwide, but many subject teachers lack preparation to develop students’ second-language literacy skills while teaching academic topics. This talk describes challenges and research-based, profession...

The presentation describes the professionalization instruments of the Goethe-Institut's continuing education and professional development series DEUTSCH LEHREN LERNEN (Learn To Teach German), which guide observation, reflection and fearless experimentation. Here is the question, how this concept can...

Ironically, individual differences (ID) research in SLA often refers to differences within a sample, not an individual. Complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) re-imagines the meaning of individual differences in ways that complement, supplement, and challenge traditional approaches to ID variables. S...

"Language policy became a field for research when sociolinguists tackled the language problems of nations becoming independent in the 1960s. Classical language policy focused on the nation-state. State policy is often blocked by variations in language policy at other levels,  as well as by...

If learner autonomy is an essential concept for TESOL or FL educators, is it also important for English as an Additional Language or Dialect teaching? Can we find ‘learner autonomy’ in the Australian Curriculum? If yes, where? Findings from a curriculum and education policy review project will b...

Looking at gender representation in language teaching materials may be revealing of multiple gender-representational asymmetries but says nothing about how texts will be understood by students, nor used by teachers. I advocate more empirical studies of what teachers actually do in class with texts i...

This paper describes how academics in UK universities navigate the changes they experience in language and literacy demands, driven by changes in the higher education environment such as managerialism and digitisation. It explores the tensions generated by these changes and reflects on their impact ...

The goals of this presentation is to explore possible ways of understanding what can be learned from the studies presented in this symposium, and what the theories guiding each enable the field to learn. Through a contrastive review of the guiding logic-of-inquiry across the studies, we will initiat...

This contribution highlights how arts-based approaches can support foreign language teacher education, offering opportunities to professional development that challenges a monolingual mind-set. After presenting the theorethical bases legitimizing these approaches, I will discuss empirical examples, ...

"The focus of this talk is on the role of Popular Culture in the context of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in higher education. In many EFL countries, most encounters with the English language are outside of the classroom and mostly involve the so-called 'passive' use of English, for e...

A new policy introducing the teaching of a foreign language in primary schools was introduced in 2014 in England. However, the implementation of this policy has encountered major challenges which are reviewed in this paper, before proposing a series of ten research-based recommendations proposing so...

This presentation considers the multi-faceted issues, practical and ethical that arise with the proliferation of expectations of proofreading and its role as a mediating practice in student writing for assessment. It also looks at the links between the demand for proofreading and the role of English...

Research into remote interpreting (RI) has investigated how interpreters and their clients interact with and through different technologies, especially telephone and video links. Across different institutional settings this research has analysed, for example, the quality of the interpreter's perform...

Early detection of disease risk challenges people to make sense of their ‘being at risk’. Beyond understanding statistics, risk literacy involves critically appraising biomedical information, interpreting it against one’s individual lifeworld. Attention to people’s narratives constitutes an ...

Multilingualism in mainstream northern debates is neither a mirror of, nor a mirror for, southern multilingualisms. Southern and decolonial pedagogies that embed heterogeneity require a shift from language teaching and learning in isolation from knowledge exchange. The shift is to balance systematic...