Abstracts archive

What are the ethical, theoretical and methodological challenges raised by Fully Inclusive Practitioner Research? Including learners and teachers as co-researchers, co-producing research and pedagogy is complex yet rewarding. This multimodal presentation brings together work on Fully Inclusive Practi...

Three criteria are proposed for evaluating the legitimacy of theoretical claims in multilingual education: (a) empirical credibility--to what extent is the claim consistent with research evidence? (b) logical coherence—to what extent is the claim internally consistent? (c) consequential validityâ€...

The relationship between second language (L2) acquisition research and L2 pedagogy can be contentious. However, it is important for researchers and teachers to have a good-faith dialogue in order to facilitate research that is relevant for teachers and that produces evidence-based implications for t...

This presentation will describe projects effecting curricular innovation across multiple languages and significant instructor agency in the transformation of assessments, curricula and materials. It will draw on multiple data sources including participating language instructors, and examples of thei...

Task-based needs analysis is a professional, in-depth inquiry into the tasks and language associated with them that second or foreign language learners need to perform. the focus of this paper will be the transfer from needs analysis to actual design and how NA may inform all dimensions of task and ...

From the 'What If's' to the 'So What's': Updating our Understanding of Second Language Development from a Complex Dynamic Systems Perspective

Drawing on the view of genre as “an open category at least partly bounded by constraints of time, resources, availability and access” (Swales, 2004: 72), this talk addresses several theoretical and methodological challenges of investigating the intersemiotic relationships between traditional and...

This example of a "third-wind approach" delves into the complexity when learners strategically perform tasks. One study examined the moment-to-moment functions that are activated in the use of the same strategy and across strategies. The other investigated a hyperpolyglot's strategic fine-tuning his...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate in-service teachers’ thoughts and beliefs vis-á-vis a professional development program focusing on pedagogical translanguaging. In this ethnographically framed study, the complex relationships between teacher cognition, teacher identities and their clas...

This paper addresses methodological and conceptual issues related to one of the most commonly used research designs in corpus-based studies on L2 use: the comparison of corpora representing L1 and L2 speakers. It draws on the data from two new large corpora representing spoken English interactive L2...

Linguistic diversity is a key feature of European Union but the management of linguistic diversity in member states does not always adhere to European Union legislation and principles. In line with the aims of this symposium (S109), I will discuss the differences between European Union policies and ...

This presentation is a discussion of the themes emerging in the individual paper presentations. The discussant will also identify emerging questions and directions for further study.

This paper explores the role of several factors that have been claimed to affect L2 learning in classroom contexts by comparing the results of studies examining the linguistic outcomes of ‘regular’ foreign language programs and bilingual programs differing, among other things, in amount of learn...

This paper discusses the distinction between complicated and complex as they relate to language use, and argues that a full measure of complexity needs to account not just for the number of linguistic units and levels of embeddedness in language, but also for the quality of interactions between them...

This presentation will report on an Irish primary school that successfully converts extreme linguistic diversity into significant educational capital. It will argue that pupils’ learning achievement illuminates three theoretical constructs – exploratory talk, plurilingual and intercultural educa...

The ability to read literary texts and to explore fictional worlds is a competence in its own right. Teaching literature should be based on a model of literary competences that learners need to acquire in order to understand the aesthetic dimension of literary texts and their relation to cultural ex...

The English need for Japanese companies increases as they expand globally. This presentation introduces the HERO program, an educational model that supports a community-based ER program as a means of workplace language provision to help fulfill this need, and discusses why ER is a feasible language ...

This paper will present the results of a number of studies showing that identifying linguistic and subject variables significantly affecting immigrants’ performance in an L2 may also provide important indications as to how the effectiveness of foreign language teaching can be increased.

The lecture presents theoretical models and empirical findings on intercultural teaching quality and teaching approaches to multilingualism in foreign language teaching. Against the backdrop of the presented findings, the presentation raises the question how applied linguistic models and psychologic...

This study investigates how international TV news channels present and frame current events in YouTube videos through combinations of multimodal resources. It further considers how multimodal analysis can be complemented by computational tools and approaches, and the trade-offs to be considered when...

This talk presents the findings of a systematic review of 27 perceptual training studies conducted over the last 40 years which include the testing of generalization and retention of L2 speech learning. It overviews the use of these measures and examines how effective perceptual training is in promo...

The study reports on an EFL writing test validation project. Subjects from diverse educational backgrounds responded to two tasks in front of an eye tracker. They produced stimulated recalls which were combined with measures of proficiency, typing speed and eye movements to map participants’ cogni...

This paper takes an interdisciplinary and corpus-based view on fluency and investigates speakers of ENL, ESL, and EFL in order to test if speakers from different types of Englishes establish fluency differently. The corpora are analyzed for various fluency-relevant variables, such as filled or unfil...

How have literacy studies changed in reponse to technological innovation and changes in the world order? This paper documents a shift from the study of texts/events/practices in relatively settled contexts to focus on displaced literacies across borders. Notions of assemblage and bricolage may bette...

This presentation discusses research findings that contributed to the Lexical Syllabus construction in the Israeli schools: Optimal lexical targets, learners' vocabulary knowledge, treatment of vocabulary in textbooks, and factors that affect vocabulary learning. The project involved a collaboration...

In this talk, I will present how language education can be designed using principles of genre pedagogy (Rose & Martin 2012; Van Dijk & Hajer 2012). Selected research results underpin the responsibility of subject teachers to connect subject and language learning in subject areas.

Based on longitudinal questionnaire data from mothers in 75 English-German and 15 Polish-German bilingual families with very young children, this talk explores how earlier maternal language attitudes and beliefs possibly influence later mother-child interaction in terms of language choice.

The shape and position of English are changing fast in academia. ELF is a complex form of language contact, viewed from three key perspectives: the cognitive, the micro-social, and the macro-social. It is argued that academics use their varying repertoires of English skilfully in co-constructing mea...

This chapter will examine multilingualism as a research process and a subject position within that process by considering how multilingualism can contribute to research practice and exemplify the possibilities for multilingual research practice by examining the working processes of a multilingual re...

Keystroke logging software includes a number of automatic analyses. Most studies to date use the automatic outputs from keystroke logging quantitatively with statistical analysis. In this paper I will give an overview of keystroke logging research to date, then present and discuss the applicability ...