Abstracts archive

In our paper, we focus on literacy practices in a transitional mathematics classroom in a secondary school in southern Finland. We aim to build towards a frame of reference that would help mathematics teachers to understand what supporting emerging literacies means in relation to their own subject.

This poster presents an instrument to determine whether foreign language (FL) teaching materials integrate scientific insights regarding targeted language use. Subsequently, we demonstrate the application of the instrument by exploring course books used in the neighbor language classroom. We compare...

This presentation aims to focus on the teachers who use literature and/or film in their ESP-oriented courses and investigate why these teachers use them in the contexts and what issues are in their minds. The results of the teacher interviews indicated that the teachers believed in some benefits of ...

Academic writing in English is argumentative in nature. To develop EFL students’ academic writing competence, instruction must go beyond teaching argument essays for writing courses and tests. This paper explores how the argument genre can be transferred to students’ learning and writing in diff...

This presentation reports on a longitudinal case study on Chinese school teachers’ cognition and practice about language learner autonomy. The findings revealed the complexity of this issue in six categories: an autonomous practitioner, an experimenting explorer, a practising doubter, a superficia...

The current study has established a strong link between task takers' critical thinking ability and their speaking performances by modelling a devised spoken discourse analysis.

Russian-English bilinguals’ emotional reactivity was tested via skin conductance responses and emotionality ratings of stimuli presented in both languages. The stimuli were university-related emotionally-laden critical items and neutral control items. Critical items elicited significantly stronger...

This paper addresses how the intercultural experiences of L2 Saudi females were different to L2 learners of other nationalities. It sheds light on some incidents that have helped learners become interculturally competent, and concludes by proposing future directions.

Our study investigates the age profile, emotional intensity, vividness, and valence of autobiographical memories using the Galton-Crovitz cueing technique. The results suggest that our memories are profoundly shaped by the languages in which we encode, cue, and recall the events.

This paper investigated the phonetic features of the English diphthongs /ei/ and /ou/ pronounced by Japanese elementary school students in comparison with the pronunciation of native English speakers and Japanese vowels. The acoustical analysis of the vowels indicated that the students substituted t...

Based on my pedagogical and research practices, I understand that Exploratory Practice (EP) is indeed sustainable. Searching for understandings maintains the exploratory process alive, generating new puzzles. In this presentation, based on the EP principles, I analyze some in-service teachers’ nar...

 This session will describe a structured faculty professional development program aimed at helping faculty take full advantage of the affordances of mobile technology to enhance their teaching practices and provide an innovative learning environment for their students. Research results will be pres...

Early teaching of foreign languages (ETFL) in Finland is a new and topical issue. Music has been shown to be beneficial in language learning. In this paper, we focus on how songs are used in the foreign language classroom with learners in the first and second years of school in the Finnish context.&...

This paper gives some suggestions for L2 pronunciation teaching which can help ESL learners overcome their problems with the perception and production of L2 English speech sounds. It argues that both speech perception and speech production should be given comparable pedagogical attention in an advan...

The emotional understanding ability is one of the four branches included in the theoretical model on emotions by Mayer and Salovey (1997). There seems to be a connection between EFL learners' speaking proficiency and the emotional understanding ability. Emotional understanding can play an important ...

The present study explored the effect of input mode on the implicit learning of semantic distinction of articles. 65 participants were exposed to large amount of article-noun collocations  with different input modes. Results indicated that input combining the verbal  and nonverbal mode fac...

The present talk focuses on the development of language-specific, phonological processing abilities in L2 and early bilingualism. We test the processing of stress by L2 learners of Spanish whose first language is English, and early English-Spanish bilinguals.

This study investigates the role EFL teachers attribute to their linguistic and cultural repertoire during induction. Thirty novice bilingual and multilingual teachers in Israeli schools were interviewed. Qualitative analyses reveal themes related to teachers’ plurilingual and cultural background ...

The present paper aims to demonstrate the ways in which metaphors in a fifteenth century political discourse written in a pre-modern Italian language variety function as mitigators for face threatening acts. The metaphor functions as an implicit speech act and its value results to be in upholding se...

The paper reports a study which investigated the relationship between the phonological loop and the central executive, and explicit and implicit knowledge of English passive voice, taking into account the mediating effect of overall mastery of grammar (i.e., grades on the final exam) and self-report...

This study began as a traditional Tandem Learning program, but soon evolved into a project in which learners exchanged scientific research focusing on professional rather than conversational English. The three principles which guided the research were: autonomy, reciprocity, and collaboration. Colla...

To date, we do not know much about early simultaneous language learning in instructional settings. For empirical substantiation, 1,400 minutes of video and audio data were analysed focusing on how teachers deal with multilingual teaching situations. The presentation will discuss some of the results.

Primary school teachers’ subjective perceptions of multilingualism on a conceptual level and potential pedagogical actions serving as language management actions in Sweden and Switzerland are investigated using a comparative Q methodological research approach.

This paper focuses on The Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences (HTB) as a means to enhance multilingualism. We will discuss the expressed attitudes, and relate them to the user statistics of the website and a user survey. The findings will be linked to language policies.

A diagnostic test of pronunciation is developed for L2 learners of Japanese and administered to American and Chinese learners of Japanese. Results showed that Chinse students outperformed American students for almost all measures, especially rhythm and accent perception, and production errors on rhy...

A reading/writing course design and materials for tertiary-level EAP learners will be shared. Student outcomes will demonstrate how the course’s scaffolded activities enabled students to recycle reading language in their own writing, advancing their critical and logical thinking skills as well as ...

This presentation describes a study comparing L1 and advanced L2 speakers’ production and perceptions of idiomatic language. Findings indicate the L2 speakers struggled to produce idiomatic language but that both groups believed its acquisition should be a focus of L2 education. Implications for r...

This study examines how young learners’ attitudes to English influence their motivation to learn a second foreign language (SFL) in Sweden and whether there are motivational differences depending on the learners’ gender and the language they studied. Questionnaire results found motivation toward...

Our project approaches the definition of hate-speech from the addressee's perspective (i.e., the perception of written and spoken language) and proceeds from objectified empirical evidence to common linguistic denominators of the phenomenon. Our aim is helping companies and the society to better det...

This focused multimodal presentation presents studies done on post-match interviews with male professional football players in German, English as a Lingua Franca and English. The studies show how the structural, linguistic and interactional features of the interviews contribute to the media social f...