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The Big Ten Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership strives to create sustainable, shared models for language instruction across institutions. This presentation focuses on the ways this partnership promotes models of inter-institutional collaboration and pedagogical innovation by d...

In this talk we will present “The multilingual pupil”: a collaborative learner corpus project involving teachers, pupils, researchers and teacher educators. The project aims to investigate pupils’ development of written skills in L2 and L3 languages as well as teachers’ written feedback prac...

The presenter advances the position that children engage in ‘conflict talk’ exchanges through which information about the meaning, structure, and usage of language become available to the child. The presenter showcases research supporting the notion that conflict may inform language learning. As...

The presenter describes how primary school teachers could conduct CLIL lessons in Japanese schools and explains how CLIL is effective for pupils and helps pupils cultivate international understanding. Teachers could encourage pupils to develop social and global community involvement through CLIL.

This presentation reports on findings of a case study about how critical thinking skills were taught in an EAP class in China, through the blended learning and the project-based learning. And it offers cross-cultural explanations of Chinese EAP students’ critical thinking skills and a lack thereof...

This poster surveys the last 60 years of languages education in England, identifying three cycles of innovation and disillusionment: (1) from optimism surrounding entry into the Common Market to disenchantment (1960s–1970s); (2) from grass-roots innovation in 'languages for all' to conformism to a...

This presentation reports how an integrating content and language (ICL) course was created for undergraduate Asian students in mechanical engineering and how it helped them to be better prepared for content courses. Those who wish to design an effective ICL course in Asian university settings may fi...

Preliteracy skills are strong predictors of literacy skills and, therefore, educators should engage children in literacy activities from an early age. Drawing on interviews and questionnaires, this paper presents the educators’ attitudes, their engagement in (multi)literacy activities and the type...

We discuss the possibilities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) based software for diagnostic feedback. The aim of our research is to develop personalized ASR so that it can be utilized as both self-learning and assessment tool. This will raise learners´ linguistic awareness and enrich the const...

Pronunciation is often considered as a neglected area or particularly difficult compared to other domains in Lx teaching and learning. The study will question terminology in the field of Lx pronunciation research in two corpora of scientific papers in French and English in order to understand the sp...

This research represents a three month-long longitudinal study into the effects of communication strategy instruction on Japanese EFL university students' speaking proficiency.

I will present the results of a long-term study on concepts for managing multilingualism at schools in South Tyrol. Study data include interviews with educational actors, school principals and teachers in 12 schools, allowing for the development of a grounded theory for evaluating policy and practic...

Considering the complex co-dependence of elements that converge in and around creative methods and practices at a digital storytelling project site in Barcelona, we draw on the notion of ecology as it has been developed in sociocultural language and education research to consider the emerging afford...

This presentation will explore the question of creative inquiry in applied linguistics from a formal, exam-focused context of adult ESOL learners. Presented data come from a PhD research project which focuses on creativity-based second language acquisition for adults and approaches second language d...

We explore critical thinking from the perspective of multilingual learners in EAP courses who recognize distinct academic culture of writing in a North American institution. Students are able to conceptualize their need for specific instruction. Therefore, critical inquiry must be part of writing in...

Deaf sign language interpreter BA-students are new in academia and to the market as professional interpreters, in Norway. Our study discusses the extent to which the marked is prepared for these new professionals. We discuss if equal education is enough to be treated equally in the market.

Design features of this experimental study addressed the limitations in previous research into the impact of extensive reading on reading rate development. The findings provide evidence of the effectiveness and efficiency of extensive reading as a pedagogical tool over grammar translation activities...

This presentation will report on a project we have been implementing at Universidad Austral since 2010 in the Anglophone Literature and Culture courses of our English as a Foreign Language teacher training programme. In groups, students carry out simulated co-teaching sessions with their peers in wh...

I intend to shed some light on teaching and learning of adult illiterates who have never attended school. My point of interest are also teachers and educators who conduct language lessons for people who can neither write nor read in their mother tongue. The presentation is based on relevant literatu...

We report on a teacher-researcher collaboration whose goal was to change the role of the Matriculation Examination from an obstacle hindering learner writing to a means to guide their writing. We focus on one teacher-learner interaction, tracing how the teacher probed and guided the learner to recon...

Community Literacy Activists: Amateur authors writing graded readers for specific purposesThis presentation introduces Community Literacy Activism as a new approach for developing Language Learner Literature (in this case, bilingual graded readers). Community Literacy Activists (CLAs) are highly mot...

Since the debate over the sheep poster, the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) constructs its political discourse on the exclusion of some ethnic and racial groups for not being (enough) Swiss. Using methods of critical discourse analysis, this paper discusses the SVP’s political discourse of exclusion ...

This presentation considers research into content teacher views on the use of Arabic within English medium of instruction (EMI) environments in the UAE federal tertiary sector. Findings suggest that Arabic must have a place in the research context for both learning and preparation for students’ fu...

This paper hopes to contribute to the discourse on the question of decolonisation in the literature on languages in Africa. Africa represents over 1 billion people with an estimated 2,140 ‘living’ languages (Etnologue, 2019). The linguistic vitality calls for a re-framing of sociolinguistic disc...

Teaching methods in Germany in the 20th century include the Grammar Translation Method, the Direct Method, behavioristic methods, communicative language teaching and the orientation towards competences. What is the relationship between curricula and language teaching methods? The focus will be mainl...

This study looks at German L1 pre-kindergarden children's acquisition of the lexeme so and the development of its versatile usage to revise the currently inchoate didactic path for the L2 classroom. A pragmatic, usage-based analysis provides information to teach form and function of so in spoken dis...

In this paper, we show with the longitudinal data collected with four beginner learners of L2 Finnish how both bottom-up and top-down processes are used and how they interact when learners are developing their L2. We discuss how the pedagogical interventions seem to affect the interplay between thes...

This study investigates translanguaging practices of Russian-CG bilingual children at home, school and in the society. Classroom observations showed that their children, students in bilingual Russian-Cypriot Greek classes alternate languages. Russian-speaking teachers also code-switch and use societ...

We tested whether bilingual children gesture more than monolinguals because of greater word-finding difficulties. We found no differences on gesture frequency during word-finding difficulty. However, there were no differences on the number of word-finding difficulties or gestures. These results rais...

By working with German and French children on food odors, we want to explore food as cultural-based concept. Our verbalisation of food odors relies on our daily experiences but how exactly is culture involved in this cognitive process? That’s what we’re looking for.