Abstracts archive

As the fifth estate, social media influence public discourses. Previously tabooed contents and language are becoming normalised. But also forms of organised counter speech have been developing as an answer to hate speech. In this presentation, forms of counter speech in German and Finnish social med...

A number of studies have shown the potential benefits of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) on Second language (L2) oral proficiency, but fewer focus on using technology offering classroom opportunities to support spoken language (Lin, 2014). Within the context of England and learners of school a...

There is a dearth of research on oral academic language use in seminar-type classes in higher education. Addressing this gap, this study focuses on working with international students speaking English as an additional language and their course instructors to explore spoken classroom interaction patt...

Our study focuses on item-level diagnostic feedback in an online self-study reading assessment. We explored how learners act upon this feedback, and whether they can transfer this to subsequent items. The findings suggest some important individual and contextual factors that influence the way learne...

We bring the results of a study on the improvement of Catalan L2 pronunciation by the majority of 60 students on the Teacher Degree Course at the Universitat de Barcelona, based on the use of attractive resources, including ICTs and Kahoot, and following the verbotonal method.

This preliminary study attempted to understand what experience it was to participate in a CLIL study-abroad program for Japanese participants (N= 107), by investigating its impact (effect and influence) including: change in awareness/attitudes towards global citizenship, sustainability behaviors, En...

Our poster presents findings of focus groups with primary school teachers and teacher trainers on the implementation of multilingual approaches in Swiss primary schools. Participants appraised multilingual activities regarding their curricular relevance and their potential to develop language compet...

The current study described the engagement in informal digital learning of English among Kazakhstani pre-service teachers and the associated language outcomes

Integrating students’ informal practices into the formal context of an online course, specifically watching films from their professional field and finding information online, allows learners to be the experts and take part in various forms of mediation and meaningful online interaction, as encour...

Our presentation discusses the role of interpreting in the inclusion of deaf students in tertiary classrooms in Ghana. It presents the participants understandings of inclusion, the demands and control options of interpreting in tertiary classrooms, and the nature of interactions between deaf student...

From a multiperspective view (students, teachers, administrators and university management), the paper will deal with language use and language attitudes towards standard languages and regional varieties at an Austrian middle size university. A mixed methods approach can show how elite language ideo...

This presentation outlines recent changes in language education policy in Luxembourg which call for a more inclusive and multilingual early language education in the formal and non-formal sector and examines the influence of professional development aimed to help early years practitioners appropriat...

The presentation will focus on mutual intelligibility on Finnish, Estonian, and languages that are closely related to them. I will represent how I am about to organise a test where Finnish testees translate written Estonian, and Estonian testees translate written Finnish. Both groups will also trans...

This presentation reports findings from 2 action research studies (in Japan and Sweden) that introduced scaffolded notetaking instruction in one-way (i.e., lecture) listening. The presentation describes the notetaking instruction, discusses research findings, and uses examples of student work to ill...

Recent research into L2/FL motivation has entered the socio-dynamics period, characterized by a concern with the contextual interactions, the dynamics of change, and the time-scale variations. We present findings from a longitudinal study into three EFL learners’ listening development over time in...

We investigated the effects of a synchronous computer-mediated communication tool for developing L2 speaking and listening abilities over five months. Results show that the use of such tools significantly improved the students’ interest in an international posture even if using the tools was not f...

Drawing on the experiences of thirty teachers from a variety of contexts within China, and covering a range of career stages, this presentation will utilise semi-structured interviews to explore the provision and consider the value both Chinese and expatriate educators place on their own in-service ...

The purpose of the study is to explore the process of teacher development of assistant language teachers in Japan and Australia. The sociocultural narrative analysis of informal interviews illuminates how they (re)construct their own teaching theories in each of their contexts of different countries...

Integration in Medical English programs may have various conditions and learners. In classroom teaching and in MOOCs’ program the learners may have various knowledge background and learning demand. When dealing with the different program, the teacher should be flexible and try their best to meet t...

Working as a Teacher of Spanish as a Foreign Language in the Middle East is not an easy job. However, it can even be more difficult if you add gender segregation: female students and male instructor. Interculturality becomes the handicap and emotions can play in your favor or against.

In multilingual classes, social interaction in the context of friendships can be seen as a valuable resource for language acquisition. In this research we study the relationship between friendships in the classroom and the development of language proficiency of in children with German as their first...

This study examines perceptions of professors and students on EMI policies at three Korean universities. Results show that the majorities of the professors and students were involved in EMI due to their university's policy and that they felt lower satisfaction and less interaction than in classes of...

"This paper describes some ways that young people find, listen to, and learn L2 songs and engage in informal language learning. Songs and musical resources developed by teachers for the classroom (including folk/traditional music and children's songs, chants and rhymes) may contain ""simplified"" or...

This session discusses the development of biology CLIL courses for Asian students. It examines such issues as collaboration between the language and content professors and school administrators’ intervention, in addition to course design and management. Those interested in developing CLIL courses ...

"Where in your body do you feel your language?" Multilingual teachers' reflections on young pupils' language identity construction

This paper reports a case study that investigates whether study abroad can develop Japanese university students’ understanding of English as a lingua franca (ELF) based on data obtained before, during, and after SA. It discusses factors that prevented students from fully developing understanding o...

In this paper, I will consider two questions for global Indigenous peoples like myself: What identities are currently available, adopted and valorized by Indigenous language speakers globally? How are positions like Indigenous language speaker, academic, activist and teacher altering in response to ...

This presentation aims at discussing the gains and challenges of doing practitioner research in the context of EAP and an MA TESOL programme and of involving learners as co-researchers in the process. I will present data from students' reflective writing and drawings, which aim to facilitate the dis...

This study describes inter-cultural impeding factors of Korean-accented English consonants in various English communication settings. The findings exhibit the difference in intelligibility levels of liquids and voiced consonants, depending on word positions. In this talk, we will present which featu...

With recent populist policies affecting Danish higher education, English-taught programmes at Aarhus University have taken a huge hit with cuts to places, lack of language support, and language exclusion. This presentation discusses the recent effects on the Intercultural Studies programme, a small,...