Abstracts archive

This presentation documents how the inclusion of dynamicity affords new learning and development opportunities beyond an achievement assessment purpose. Students’ verbalizations inform teachers on individual second language developmental process and students' envision and experimentation of expand...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the learnings of Japanese students who study in Korea. By analyzing their reports, questionnaires, interview data, their awareness to different language and cultures, orientations for their future works are observed. The study will contribute to programs for â...

Remedial programs in the target language are often not enough to support plurilingual students in university and fill the achievement gap. Can translanguaging be the answer? We aim to identify from the ground up tools and strategies which could be implemented in support of plurilingual students in h...

In this duoethnography, two educators and doctoral students with dissimilar linguistic and cultural backgrounds interrogate their transnational teacher-researcher trajectories. Through this equitable partnership we juxtapose our experiences to transcend the research-practice divide, unpack the impor...

This research investigates crosslinguistic awareness (XLA) looking at conditions for future teachers to become skilled facilitators of XLA. Teaching approaches used in German L3-language courses at Norwegian and Danish universities were observed and compared. Interviews with lecturers were conducted...

In our presentation, we present a fully developed research use argument (RUA) and software for instructed second language acquisition, using a newly developed Python-based software application. The RUA addresses concerns in the field of applied linguistics by guiding users to supply specific data ne...

This paper will describe the double-fold validation process carried out in order to obtain statistically reliable surveys to identify difficulties and best practices in catering to diversity in CLIL within the European ADiBE project. It is distinctive from other papers in that it offers the statisti...

This study compares the vocabulary production/word association of 6th and 12th EFL learners in response to the prompt ANIMALS The results provide evidence of a significant higher word production in 12th grade as compared to 6th grade EFL learners. As to the actual words retrieved by the two groups, ...

This study investigates whether a teacher's language choice (English-only or translanguaging) can affect students' enjoyment, anxiety and English proficiency improvement. English-only instruction might contribute to increased enjoyment on students, while translanguaging instruction might contri...

This study replicates Lowie and Verspoor (2019) with different subjects. We found that motivation, aptitude, and working memory do not predict L2 writing proficiency, but variability during development is a robust predictor for L2 writing proficiency. We concluded that variability is an important so...

This study analyzes the use of questions in English-medium Master’s thesis defenses conducted at Taiwanese universities. The preliminary analytical results reveal significant disparities in the frequency, forms and functions of the questions, which can be attributed to the influence of institution...

The presentation will consist of a review that synthesizes the forms that language scaffolds take in content classrooms where learners are learning subject content a second language. This synthesis serves as a point of departure for an observation tool to assess the use of language scaffolds in clas...

This presentation will argue and demonstrate how translingual composing practices in Kenyan Hip-hop seek to decolonize Kenyan languages, minds and culture. Using Jua Cali, Kenya’s pioneer artist as a case study, the presentation will consider the implications of his decolonial work not only for Ke...

News publishers are confronted with the problem of no longer reaching young people. Our study investigates the news consumption of Swiss adolescents aged 12 to 20 and describes the news culture of young generations in terms of platforms, formats, modes, topics, and language.

This study explores two questions, which is first on the teacher issue: If teachers are using L1, then why are they using it and how much do teachers use it in their lessons? The second is the student issue: How do students feel about the use of the L1?

Using the findings of a meta-analysis, this presentation exemplifies how sample characteristics impact study outcomes. Findings of subgroup analyses regarding various learner variables will be presented and discussed, highlighting the substantially different outcomes for WEIRD, i.e. Western, Educate...

This is a report of a longitudinal case study carried out in a German international school. The researcher traced the language development of two learners of English (both eleven years old at the beginning of the study) by collecting writing samples periodically (every four weeks) for 22 months.

We present the characteristics and outcomes of a teacher training course designed for Italian volunteer teachers according to a sociocultural and reflective perspective. 10 teachers were enrolled in the study and, via a questionnaire and classroom observation, positive effects of the training course...

We still know little about what makes pronunciation learning succeed after the critical phase. For empirical substantiation, the results of six interviews on pronunciation learning strategies with successful post-critical period pronunciation learners will be discussed.

This paper examines the use of derogatory prefixes and productive compounding as a linguistic vehicle of hate speech in German social media (Twitter and Facebook), with a special focus on ethnic and religious minorities. The morphological mechanisms discussed include slur expansion, stereotype-based...

This paper reports ethnographic research on English at a madrasa in rural Bangladesh, and argues that in applied linguistics, Southern theories need to be critically informed by empirical work, not only engaging with heterogenous experiences but also reflecting on the processes involved in accessing...

Complementary to the research literature focusing on spontaneous, on-the-spot, translanguaging, our study on MC Yan's music video that raps the city and the Hong Kong identity shows that translanguaging can also be non-spontaneous, carefully and systemically crafted. Our study therefore fills the ga...

The present project studies the Korean-Spanish bilingual community in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The paper investigates the history of their transnational diaspora and mobility, the complexity of their ethnic identity construction and their language profile.

In this study, the researcher examined how learners’ language learning motivation has changed over the course of the academic year in TBLT foreign language courses. Results suggest that persistence in L2 learning is a combination of long-term goals and vision with the personality characteristic of...

This research uses conversation analysis to describe three prosodic techniques a teacher uses to facilitate learner participation. While he validates and connects all student responses, he employs larger prosodic features to encourage further participation whereas these prosodic features remain larg...

This study examined the use of Twitter in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course for EFL medical students. Students were encouraged to communicate with their tutor and with each other via Twitter during 10-week ESP course. To measure their attitudes and experiences in using Twitter, data were...

In my PhD project I investigate the effect of multilingualism on primary school students’ vocabulary learning strategies. In controlled settings, 35 participants carried out vocabulary learning tasks and verbalized their thoughts. In this presentation, I will discuss which strategies participants ...

This paper questions the ways in which language education could contribute to democratic cultural spaces and configurations through the use of purposefully selected literary texts. I argue that there is something disturbingly worrisome in the incompleteness and mimicry of the postcolonial state’s ...

We report on the use of Whatsapp, a social messaging app, as a tool to promote out-of-class learning with an intermediate EFL group, and share some of the lessons learned from the experience.