Abstracts archive

Rooted in Complex Dynamic Systems Theory, the study which is based on a learner written developmental corpus (ca. 1900 essays written by 100 learners over 3 years), indicates that intra-individual variation significantly predicts the average semester growth rates (ASGR) of most measures of complexit...

This presentation shares textual, spatial and temporal findings from an unobtrusive site-based study of a creative and cultural industries faculty building. The study collated and analysed texts through archival research and photography of accessible texts produced and displayed within the building.

Taking a mixed-methods approach, this study explores social network formation, intensity and diversity of language contact, and student attitudes in a short-term, island-type study abroad. It concludes that students do not expand their social networks or engage in diverse linguistic interaction. The...

How are marginalized language varieties treated in foreign and heritage language programs? Drawing on discourse analysis data from pedagogical materials and instructor focus group transcripts, this presentation reports on a case study of a large U.S. university Spanish program’s language policy to...

This paper presents some preliminary results of a micro-longitudinal mixed methods research project that explores Italian L2 learners’ “flourishing”, namely/i.e. the “students’ psychological, emotional and social wellbeing” (Rubino, Strambi and Tudini, 2017; Keyes, 2002). The project com...

This paper discusses language education policies in Singapore from post-independence to the present and compares these with the shifts in the linguistic landscape of Singapore in the same period. English dominance leading to the endangerment and death of the nation’s indigenous languages is raised...

The language practice of mixed heritage persons has not been studied widely, because of their linguistically and culturally undetermined status; heritage language learners or second language learners, that creates difficulties finding an appropriate analytical framework. However, this paper brings t...

This study establishes a baseline for understanding the linguistic and cultural complexities of the Latin American population in graduate school in the United States. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered to explore academic experiences, cultural influences and socioeconomic patterns that ...

We review differential involvement in a multi-component educational-intervention study, considering factors influencing diverse participation levels in collaborative language education research, including the impact of federal regulations around ethics. We discuss how researchers might ethically app...

This presentation describes the first stages of a 3-year collaborative research project aimed at integrating eye-tracking and corpus-based data in the development of phraseological complexity measures in the context of Italian L2 teaching.

Changes in socioliguistic landscape of English call for ELT that equips students with the knowledge and positive attitudes towards diversity of English. To achieve this, lessons including a Global Englishes (GE) perspective was implemented, and pre- and post- questionnaires were conducted to examine...

This study examines the extent of effectiveness of CLIL, an emerging teaching pedagogy in Taiwan, in a Grade 11 Taipei classroom with discussion of achievements, challenges and implications behind for shedding some insights for Taiwan educators for adapting the coming new curriculum reform.

This study is in line with the theme of the symposium “Chunks and chunking—online and offline perspectives”. It used an online primed lexical decision task and an offline fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice task to investigate the processing and production of English collocations by L1 Chine...

This study seeks to examine L2 pronunciation anxiety as a social process and promote a focus on individual learners situated in co-existing, layered social contexts. Both interpersonal and societal settings impose constraints on speakers’ self-presentational concerns since accent serves as a way o...

For low literate newcomers, traditional L2 courses are often long and unrewarding. Using the Service Design methodology, we designed an innovative demand-oriented, project-based approach outside the traditional classroom in which learners can perform real-life tasks matching their needs and in which...

Brazilian LPs are analyzed to suggest that top-down decisions seem to prevail, leaving little room for bottom-up policies, agency of local stakeholders and other languages besides English. The paper concludes with the suggestion of using approaches such as CLIL, COIL and IC in the context of interna...

This study explores nine EFL learners' writing processes with MT when writing in English and discusses the results of a questionnaire survey of 123 EFL learners about their use of MT strategies in FL writing. The findings suggest how and why EFL learners might use MT in FL writing.

The curricula-based school practice of the Sciences ignores the human aptitude for storytelling. FICTION AND CONTENT UNIFIED LEARNING (FACUL) employs neuroscientific insights into the conditions of successful learning and demonstrates how LabLit, a subgenre of science novels, can act as catalyst to ...

I describe the intersections of visual and material phenomena with written and spoken language, as I found them entangled in home and community contexts (Pahl and Rowsell 2010). I explore a language of description for more than human encounters within everyday meaning making.

Keywords: morphosyntactic alignment, trigram, teletandem, task-based interaction.

Based on data from an ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, my presentation seeks to address how the global spread of English has impacted the way EFL teachers perceive English, what it means to teach it, and how these perceptions are translated into their local classroom practices. Prominent in the f...

Acquisition of the English prepositions in, on, and at for L2 learners are possibly the most difficult grammatical features to master. This presentation shows that cross-linguistic semantic and metacognitive complexity is responsible for this difficulty and that explicit instruction is required for ...

This paper presents results from an analysis of language tandem conversation in Social VR. We will discuss a) possibilities to learn grammar and pragmatics in oral, immersive, game-based VR-communication and b) solutions to establish successful language tandem interactions and to track the learning ...

When a reader encounters an unknown word, they can infer the meaning, ignore the word, or use a dictionary. This study utilizes eye tracking and other data to examine which strategy is best for L2 readers in a variety of specific contexts. Implications for teachers and learners will be discussed.

This contribution analyses the opportunities for language contact that students experienced during Covid 19 by focusing on the access to physical and socially constructed spaces. 

This paper contrasts multi-ethnic immigrant European (Sweden and Switzerland) with Asian settings (Myanmar and South Thailand) to explore the illuminating role of Q methodology in mapping the range of argumentative positions about linguistic pluralism where debates about minorities and majorities ar...

Subject learning includes the development of specific literacies in students with various subjects imposing varying requirements. Identifying and respecting those requirements for L2 learners when developing curricula for CLIL-teaching could further boost the programs’ success and become one of th...

Newspapers’ online comment sections provide a channel through which hate speech can influence mainstream public debate. Based on a corpus of comments to the pro-Brexit Express online between 2014 and 2018, this paper examines the vilification of various out-groups and its relation to the newspaper...

MiKo is a multimodal corpus triangulating data involved in the complex task of note-taking in university lectures. It comprises transcriptions, video and audio streams, and students’ notes of first-semester lectures. This poster presentation focuses on introducing the corpus and discussing methodi...

ELT teachers find themselves working in increasingly multilingual classrooms. To challenge the monolingual bias and promote additive multilingualism, better tools for classroom observations are needed for teachers and supervisors. This presentation introduces the Multilingual Approach to Diversity i...