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This contribution analyses and compares teaching anxieties (self-centered, task-centered and student-centered anxiety) of non-native foreign language student-teachers, with and without migrant backgrounds. Three variables will be closely considered: the target foreign language (French or Spanish), t...

An educational project on writing processes in Italian English and German at the final stage of two primary school classes (fifth grade) in South Tyrol (Italy), should lead to the growth of plurilingual competences. Moving from socio-cultural, interactionist and meta-cognitive perspectives proper di...

Based on the Exploratory Practice principles, I seek to understand why I was so happy teaching at Nexus, a Brazilian public school. My students’ written responses helped me understand, among other aspects, that I trust my students’ perceptions of me and of our relationship based on love, affecti...

The author will describe the impact that a CLIL teacher education programme may have on the beliefs of in-service CLIL teachers. Some differences between CLIL teacher training and CLIL teacher education will also be highlighted and it will be explained why the latter is more effective. Maria Paz Azp...

This study reports on a meta-puzzling process of Exploratory Practice (EP) focusing on puzzles. In this case study, undergraduate students explored their own puzzles framed with ‘Why’, ‘How’ and ‘What’ and they compared, in collaboration with their teacher, the three forms of puzzles in ...

In this poster presentation we follow up on questions raised in the presentation “Beyond the third-party academic paradigm in writing about inclusive practitioner research” by exploring the perspectives of writers, reviewers and editors who have participated in a new online forum for engaging wi...

This paper discusses one factor - intergenerational ties and its role in successful family language policy. The two Vietnamese families discussed in this paper are two distinctive examples of successful versus unsuccessful family language policy in Melbourne settings. Among the different data collec...