Abstracts archive

The divide between practitioners and academics has been largely debated and critiqued. However, with this presentation, I wish to share my experience as an academic practitioner and illustrate the rationale for partnerships between applied linguistics academics and practitioners to work together and...

We discuss writers with typologically different L1s (Finnish/Swedish) and what they produce as sequences when writing in L2 English or L2 Swedish/Finnish, and in their L1. Keystroke logging programme reveals that L1 structures affect the production of sequences regardless of proficiency level, chall...

By using conversation analysis under the SETT (self-evaluation of teacher talk) framework, this paper addresses how EFL teachers’ use of translation varieties, along with other prosodic cues and/or speech devices, is assimilated to a translanguaging pedagogical frame in alignment with the dynamic ...

Reading to write, writing to read" is an elective course that is being introduced with the aim of encouraging university students to read for pleasure and to become more actively engaged with texts by developing their creative writing skills."

This study focuses on the link between Turkish language teaching programs for international students who are constructed as bridges between Turkey and their homeland, the ways norms and discourses emerging in language classrooms and relevant spaces construe belonging if embr...

This presentation focuses on the results of a case-study examining the long-term impact of a seemingly challenging study abroad experience and how the participant’s personal development during that time inspired her to live abroad again. A longitudinal perspective is needed in SA research to exami...

This presentation outlines a film-based pilot study in an English as foreign language (EFL) class in China. The presenter proposes that intellectually substantive sci-fi films can develop students’ critical literacies via multiliteracy pedagogy and promote participation as global citizens. Implica...

We present early findings from an Australian Research Council Discovery project investigating successful languages programs in preschools and early primary years. The project explores national and international policies and practices, teacher education, and examples of successful programs, across Au...

Drawing on research evidence over the past decade, this presentation examines ways in which linguistic hegemony has limited learning opportunities in the educational domain. Ways in which these may be transformed and decolonized are proposed.

Key words: extracurricular language learning, extramural language learning, study abroad, foreign language learning

This action research stemmed from my teaching context where the flipped classroom has been gaining wider currency without taking cognizance of students’ readiness for the idea of ‘talk to learn’. A pedagogical intervention on academic conversation/discussion skills was implemented to help stud...

This paper is aimed at incorporating intercultural communicative competence in English language teacher education by using project-based learning in VE contexts.

This paper illustrates the interactive structure of L2 writing conferences in several learner–tutor pairs who often engaged in collaborative writing to develop the learner texts further. In particular, it explores the role or functions of reading aloud, thinking aloud and text-aloud in relation to...

In a design-based study, primary science teacher scaffolds students’ learning in biology in a multilingual classroom. Through talk-in-interaction and individual and collaborative writing, the students’ conceptual learning about ecology is supported. The teacher’s reflections concern the effect...

This study explored teachers’ professional learning of pedagogy from prior experiences of language learning. It found teachers’ comparative and dialogic reflections on the language experiences from three resources (i.e., the traditional classroom, non-traditional classroom, and participation out...

We investigate how a textbook as input is composed and how L2 beginners' written production as output is affected by the distributional properties of the textbook. We found supportive evidence for input-output relations in L2 development, as well as cross-linguistic influences on the course of acqui...

From an interactional perspective, I study a carving workshop led by a blind sculptor, with visually impaired and sighted people. Particular attention is paid to participants' tactile resources and trainer's embodied demonstrations. In this creative context, multimodal practices offer stimul...

This study investigated the benefits of using stereotypical French accent imitation in English to improve French pronunciation learning. Results, which suggest modest improvement of voiceless plosive consonants and French /ʁ/, are explained in terms of learner proficiency level and practice duratio...

We focused on exploring how to use digital technology, particularly, social media web tools 2.0, to enhance EFL novice teachers' interaction and communication at multicultural schools in the digital era. Also, implications of teaching practice and teachers' development programs have been also discus...

Study guidance in the mother tongue (SGMT) should according to the Swedish Education Ordinance be provided for students who needs support in their mother tongue or previous school language in order to reach the goals of the different school subjects. The objective of the study presented here is to i...

Language choices on signs constitute a manifestation of de facto language policy. While signage in the public space is freely accessible, those on homes call for different ethical considerations. This paper explores the ethical considerations regarding privacy in Linguistic Landscape research as wel...

Drawing on data from an innovative pedagogic project involving young learners, German student-teachers and MA students at a British university, this paper examines the interplay of identities, belief systems and ideologies as participants engaged in interlinked tasks focused on use of their plurilin...

The presentation will discuss students´ motivational orientations and current methodological challenges in CLIL classrooms in Spain. It will report on the results from a classroom-based study investigating the relationship between the lexical difficulty of instructional materials, learners´ readin...

The lecture will discuss how problematic it is for a discourse culture to subsume constructive criticism under Hate Speech.

This ethnographically-oriented project explores an international doctorate student's (Ryan) socialization into an occluded genre, responding to reviewer comments, in an engineering research team. Findings indicated that through textual interactions, oral interactions, and mentoring, Ryan was sociali...

This study examines the process and effectiveness of the teacher’s scaffolding in teacher-student classroom interactions. It aims to illustrate the effectiveness of scaffolding by exploring the relation between the teacher’s scaffolding strategies and the degree of students’ participation and ...

Talking about taste takes place in different forms depending on the prior knowledge of the speaker: e.g. sensory science and in everyday life. The talk will focus on two topics: 1. Different means to describe taste perceptions with regard to the different disciplines. 2. Critical issues in translati...

This study will investigate the Chinese character learning of students with alphabetic writing system language backgrounds via a nation-wide investigation, which furthers the assist in understanding language learning strategies in this context as opposed to reviewing studies of learning English and ...

This study investigated adult L2 learners’ motivation with the dynamic system framework by replicating Waninge et al. (2014). The instruments used were Motometer, classroom observations, a questionnaire, and stimulated recall. The results found the type of activities and students’ positive attit...

This presentation offers an innovative methodological and pedagogical approach to translanguaging developed with TESOL student-teachers. Building on metaphor theory and analysis, the presenters will share practical ideas on how to help student-teachers develop new metaphors for their teaching classr...