Abstracts archive

I will draw on results of research into perceptions and use of a self-access centre in Japan from a self-determination theory point of view. I suggest ways in which learning advisors might attend to the three basic psychological needs of competence and relatedness, and autonomy in advising sessions.

In increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse EAL classrooms, the use of the students' mother tongue(s) can provide students with valuable accoutrements that would optimize pedagogy. This presentation discusses how integrating the students' mother tongues in the classroom can contribute towa...

By means of a series of recent studies, this talk describes the wide-ranging potential, and limitations, of eye-tracking technology for research into reading in another language. It also considers the development of specific methodological guidelines and eye-tracking measures to best fulfil the func...

This paper examines how UK models of CLIL have “travelled” to inform a knowledge base for professional learning in Australian contexts. However, it then explores how the same courseware, initially developed to support Australian-based professional learning, is being further recast for teachers w...

Adopting an ecological approach to better understand EMI satellite campuses in Asia and the Middle East, I investigate the ways in which English monolingual biases and an emergent interest and pride in local languages within several countries that have hosted such joint venture foreign campuses have...

This talk first provides a brief overview of the relatively short development from the first virtual exchanges in language education to its recent expansion into language teaching around the world. We will then consider key areas of concern for language teacher education and possible steps for furth...

Although we all have intuitive conceptions of students' "participation" and "engagement," understanding how little we know about these in practice is a crucial step toward better pedagogy. Students are often participating when we think they are not, and likewise, students can appear engaged, when in...

This paper focuses on two fields of creative practice, collaborative photography and documentary theatre, and considers how creative practice allows communication across modes and enables stories of forced migration that might otherwise stay hidden.

A key factor in research on teachers’ beliefs is their influence on their practices. In this talk, we discuss some of the factors that affect this relationship and address how language teacher educators can help beginning teachers to enact their conceptualizations of language.

This paper intends to show that language planning in Colombia has followed patterns of exclusion and marginalization towards minority groups. The language policies adopted during the Spanish colonization have been followed, enhanced, fostered and legitimized during the different history periods of o...

The concept of chunk covers a wide range of phenomena that have been identified from the observation of corpora. This paper considers the relation between these phenomena and the relation between the phenomena and theories of language as a mental or social construct.

An informal conversation between three researchers--Avary Carhill-Poza, Sandra Zappa-Hollman, and Crissa Stephens--about their work on social resources and language policy. Crissa describes a critical ethnography of language policy with mothers of multilingual students and their schools. Sandra talk...

In this talk I will theorize the notion of transcription and explore some of the semiotic operations through which we form and transform ‘data’. This serves to make explicit and consider the affordances of semiotic principles and resources for transcription and provide a framework for evaluation...

Research-based proficiency assessments provide a powerful framework for well-articulated sequences of courses supporting student language development in secondary and postsecondary language programs. This presentation proposes an instruction-assessment framework for ensuring that students and their ...

This contribution draws upon the findings of a European project (Technologically Enhanced Language Learning Pedagogy), which linked two primary schools in England with schools in France and Spain through video-conferencing, to argue that such technologies provide language learning opportunities for ...

This contribution reports on the multimodal analysis of 20 (professional) portraits of foreign language learners and teachers produced by French student-teachers at the University of Hamburg, based on the instructions "How did you become a (potential) French teacher?". I discuss methodological chall...

This presentation focuses on selected findings from a comprehensive, mixed-methods study examining the careers of language study abroad alumni. The study includes a nationwide survey, with complete data from 4,868 respondents, and life history interviews with approximately 60 participants selected o...

Keystroke logging methods offer important insights to writing processes and writing behaviours. This talk reports on results from keystroke-based studies of university student writing which captures some of the features of their writing processes and outlines an agenda for future work on student dig...

This paper argues that public service interpreters are indispensable for the implementation of at least three United Nations sustainable goals. A fourth sustainable goal relates to decent work and quality jobs, significant issues for public service interpreters in many countries. Can we draw on the ...

Longitudinal research can show language learning and teaching in ways that are not possible with cross-sectional research yet it is scarce. The academic context does not often provide the time longitudinal classroom research requires, which means that researchers, associations and journals should pl...

This talk draws on my research on the media coverage on the ‘dialect’ crisis in mainland China. While I applaud the initiatives to preserve different regional Chinese varieties, I am critically aware of the phenomenon that ‘non-locals’ are often blamed for the ‘dialect’ crisis in the rel...

This featured presentation focuses on academic writing policy and practice in the context of multilingual higher education. Based on student attitudes and composing strategies, it will be problematized to what extent translanguaging can be a solution to the challenges of academic writing

Recent historical work has juxtaposed accounts of the teaching of particular languages and of teaching in various European locations, increasing the potential for comparison. Here, I focus attention on similarities and divergencies which can already be identified and I highlight some possible direct...

This presentation revisits the relationship between late L2 learning and outcome variability. Unlike most preceding work that associates performance variability with individual differences (e.g. deriving from biographical, experiential, conative, identificational, genetic, bio-chemical, aptitude, co...

In this talk I show how Conversation Analysis contributes to teacher education (1) with its role in creating flexible digital observation tools as well as (2) its power in the analysis of pedagogical interactions. Issues related to the analysis of teacher learning and developing sustainable teacher ...

In this presentation, we discuss the possibilities and challenges of combining the paradigms of dynamic assessment and diagnostic language assessment, at the conceptual level and at the operational/design level. We explore this through the DIALANG 2.0 project, a regeneration exercise of an existing,...

This paper reports a qualitative case study featuring classroom observation-interview cycles investigating how and why Frank, an experienced English for Academic Purposes teacher at a UK university, used his TESOL textbook. Frank struggled to adapt the book to make it fit for purpose.