Abstracts archive

The inherently social nature of literacies is the most evident in collaborative text production. However, the status of collaborative literacies, the value attached to them, and their regulation vary both across and within institutions. Drawing on data from two contrasting institutional contexts, th...

In our presentation, we publish the results of a systematic literature review that focuses on papers in journalism studies that adopt both etic and emic perspectives in their data gathering. We assess, for example, the balance of these perspectives and their degree of integration.

This presentation will act as an introduction to what a complexity approach can offer practitioner researchers in investigating the psychologies of second language learners. Through 'complexity thinking' tasks and consideration of a range of introspective and audio data, the session will scaffold pa...

This qualitative interpretive investigation scrutinizes the discursive construction of horizontality within the context of contemporary social movements. Drawing on a corpus of recorded interactions between bicycle advocates in Rio de Janeiro, narrative and identity practices are analyzed in light o...

This will be a summary of the main insights, key points, and intriguing questions raised during the symposium.

This paper discusses collage-based research-creation projects with students and teachers in Canada, France and the United States to examine how creative inquiry can not only expand our methodological toolkits but also apprentice us into new ways of seeing and theorizing more equitable applied lingui...

This presentation will consider the role of metalinguistic understanding in developing school writers’ explicit knowledge of how language choices shape meaning in writing. Drawing on research evidence, the paper will argue for the importance of helping developing writers to become metalinguistical...

With a special focus on football, I will discuss two opposite strands of recent developments of datafication and deep mediatisation: The polyphonic representation of different types of live data on the one hand and the technological innovation of automated journalism on the other.

Foreign language education in the Netherlands will be discussed from different viewpoints: which languages are taught, what are policy makers’ and educators’ expectations about early foreign language education and are their expectations met? Challenges in foreign language education and possible ...

Tens or thousands of publications make it difficult to really know a scientific field in depth. Taking the case of data-driven learning, this paper presents an overview of different types of synthesis, then moves on to a new overview of historical developments, with implications for best practice.

This paper reports on interactional practices (1: collaborative multi-turn units (Lerner, 1991) with synchronized shifts in bodily deixis, 2:performance of being a “with” (Goffman, 1971) around an iPhone, and, 3: the recombinatory reuse of words and constructions in the process of building a dis...

This presentation examines how some language and literacy researchers are attending to relations between humans and their environments. They are searching for broader theoretical frameworks and more inclusive approaches to education to account for the entanglements of humans and materials as multipl...

With the rise of English Medium Education continuing, calls are being made for research to inform policy. This talk sets out to ponder some of the challenges and complexities involved in this endeavour and concludes by proposing four possible ways of conceptualising the researcher as policy adviser.

The major single focus of language pedagogy tends to be on developing language skills. Although language proficiency is an obvious objective, language pedagogy can benefit from relevant content that brings about invaluable cultural awareness and language awareness.

In order to increase the understanding of the role of mediated communication in family language policy, methodological protocols need to be adapted to capture current digital family practices. This paper discusses the potentials as well as practical and ethical challenges that come with data collect...

Literature use/teaching in Foreign Language Teaching moves FLT away from an instrumental, monetised view of the language classroom, aligning FLT with citizenship and values education. Promoting critical thinking and understanding the other align literature in language teaching with democratic values...

This presentation considers the commonalities and differences between secondary school pupils’ multilingual identifications in England and Norway. Findings from parallel mixed-methods projects in both contexts are presented and implications drawn for policy and practice.

The way the subject is understood in poststructuralism sees discourse as enabling and constraining the agency of the subject. This paper explores this notion in some autobiographical texts of Derrida, and considers the extent to which it features in the work of Busch and Pavlenko on autobiographical...

The aim is to explore the affective-emotional basis of second language learning by reflecting on the place of emotion as regards cognition, and on the neural mechanism for stimulus appraisal based on positive and negative evaluations of the second language learning situation. Then, a qualitative syn...

This session addresses the topic of internationalization efforts around the globe. The presenter argues for embracing bilingualism and multilingualism in supporting and ensuring student success. Strategies to accomplish this goal are presented.

The purposes of this presentation are to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of the study of English and to present the challenges faced and endeavors needed by the two major stakeholders – the department and students – in creating successful internship programs in the aviation industry.

This study investigates how migrant South Asian mothers and children in Hong Kong strategize to achieve class mobility through constructing new class identities and practicing linguistic and cultural repertoires, and how they practice language policy in the multiple contexts of home, school, communi...

The talk discusses how CLIL teachers in three schools use critical pedagogy – the exploration of matters of social justice and equity – to respond to issues arising in their contexts such as the Syrian refugee crisis and Brexit. Teachers reported that this has led to increased student engagement...

Use of fluid language practices in classroom discourse in the Global South is often contrasted with monoglossic policies. Using a Decolonial lens this paper focuses on the impact of language ideologies on literacy practices and written text production of emergent bilingual children, inviting us to r...

Two patterns emerged when diverse moral dilemmas were evaluated by bilingual speakers. A detachment effect of reduced ethical choices was obtained when two simple choices were counterposed. In more complex vignettes, evaluating in a foreign language showed an uncertainty effect. This likely ref...

This talk focuses on the assessment of productive skills among primary school learners of English as a foreign language. We discuss the task types that can be used to elicit performance in speaking and writing among children and the assessment scale development for Cambridge English Qualifications f...

Data-driven Learning (DDL) has taken two main directions. Learners can engage with corpora the hard, hands-on way, or they can observe pre-selected corpus output the soft, hands-off way. This paper proposes a third way of engaging with DDL: D-DDL, or Dynamic Data-Driven Learning. After explaining D-...

This presentation focuses on the importance of emotions in learning. Results from a mixed design study will be presented and their potential application in language teaching will be discussed. Finally, neuroimaging tools and their potential application in studying learning will be discussed.

In this talk on regressive effects of L3 phonology, I lay out the specific research questions and hypotheses that drive this line of inquiry, review what we (don’t) currently know about L3 regressive effects, and present some critical methodological considerations to keep in mind as we move forwar...