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This paper explores moments of improvisation in creative writing workshops with 11-12 year old children by using ethnographic fieldnotes, audio recordings, creative texts, and research interviews to consider the coming together of the material, affective, social, modal, cultural, and environmental e...

Diagnostic tests show deficiencies in the basic decoding and coding abilities of new arrivals, even after years of learning Swedish. The traditional view on pronunciation training needs to be expanded towards development of the code level abilities in reading, writing, listening and speaking.

This paper presents a case study of linguistic identities within a Korean / Gaelic / English-speaking family, drawn from a larger study of isolated intermarried families in regional areas of NSW, Australia. The connection between parental linguistic identity and family language policy is explored.

In this paper I analyze a group of first graders' multimodal texts about spring. In their learning to read they use the STL+ program where writing on iPads is the starting point for reading. My main interest is to analyze the students’ verbal and visual texts – what does the verbal text communic...

Affect is a highly contested term extending beyond “emotions”. This talk focuses on affective dimensions experienced by, and subsequently managed by multilingual students. The premise is that with knowledge of affective learning strategies, stakeholders from policy developers to teachers can tai...

This paper investigates EFL teachers’ beliefs about learner autonomy in art colleges, reveals the status quo of their learner autonomy beliefs and puts forward feasible suggestions in order to provide evidence for the reform and development of English teaching in art colleges.

This study explores the interaction between Japanese EFL learners' use of classroom silence and teacher talk in Japanese EFL contexts. Adopting conversational analysis, it specifically examines the extent to which learner silence can be utilised as an interactional space scaffolded by teacher talk i...

This study investigates the effect of L1 Tamazight literacy on additional language acquisition by Tamazight-Arabic bilinguals in Morocco. It was found that biliterate bilinguals acquire additional languages differently from bilinguals with no L1 literacy. The results suggest the existence of a bilit...

With multilingualism as the backdrop, this study was based on pre-service teachers who are studying to become English teachers in South Africa and Brazil. A comparison on the similarities and differences to the answers given by the students from Brazil and South Africa was conducted.

Given the importance of chunks in language processing, the present paper investigates the 'chunking behaviour' of verbal periphrases in Romance. To this end, offline data from corpus research will be related to online data from reading behaviour, exploring the relationship between patterns of chunki...

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...

The present paper examines how the mobile technologies affect the pedagogical environments focusing on dictionaries in a globalized world. The difference s in lookup frequency, reading comprehension, and retention of looked up words among the users of E-dictionary , smartphone apps, and tablet apps ...

This study investigated the employment of two game-based mobile technology applications and their impact on the motivation of EAP student learning in a UK setting from a socio-cultural perspective.

This paper looks into early multilingual learning in a multilingual context in northern Italy. The complexity and dynamism underpinning multilingual development are addressed in some detail. Selected findings from work in progress are presented and discussed. A new tool for the promotion and assessm...

Interlinear translations remain an understudied type of materials for reading instruction in a second language. This study reports the findings of an experiment using interlinear translations in a reading comprehension task, and the results using construed and columnar translations. Interlinears fac...

The present study aims to validate the function of reflections in the education of PTs and highlight the importance of multi-source reflections on microteaching practices of PTs: a tripartite reflection- from the PTs themselves, the peers, and the course instructor on ELT micro-teaching sessions.

Within the 3-minute framework for poster presentations, our recording focuses on work conducted on a 3-year Japanese research grant.  We first mention various links offered via the Prezi file, demonstrating how we employ the constructs of "Mediation" and CEFR writing descriptors to observe thei...

In our contribution, we will present the framework of reference for intercomprehension developed within the European project EVAL-IC (Evaluation des compétences en intercompréhension, Erasmus+). The framework provides descriptors for receptive intercomprehension, interproduction and interactive in...

This study investigates the effects of a intercultural competence course that endeavours to cultivate intercultural sensitivity in Emirati engineering students at an EMI university, in the UAE. An exploratory sequential research design using multiple measurements was used. Recommendations will be ma...

Based on the data of two large scale national research projects funded to investigate the linguistic behaviour and identity in Lithuanian diaspora the paper will deal with the issues of family language policy and dialect maintenance. The paper analyses the data of qualitative in-depth interviews.

This paper investigates folk perceptions of hate speech in Denmark by analyzing 30 semi-structured interviews. The analysis reveals that hate speech is unpleasant, condescending language directed towards minority groups, used to overgeneralize and construct stereotypes. The study seeks to illuminate...

As the fifth estate, social media influence public discourses. Previously tabooed contents and language are becoming normalised. But also forms of organised counter speech have been developing as an answer to hate speech. In this presentation, forms of counter speech in German and Finnish social med...

A number of studies have shown the potential benefits of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) on Second language (L2) oral proficiency, but fewer focus on using technology offering classroom opportunities to support spoken language (Lin, 2014). Within the context of England and learners of school a...

There is a dearth of research on oral academic language use in seminar-type classes in higher education. Addressing this gap, this study focuses on working with international students speaking English as an additional language and their course instructors to explore spoken classroom interaction patt...

Our study focuses on item-level diagnostic feedback in an online self-study reading assessment. We explored how learners act upon this feedback, and whether they can transfer this to subsequent items. The findings suggest some important individual and contextual factors that influence the way learne...

We will be describing the added value of CLIL experiences from a university that has the mission to provide international and professional education in areas of critical importance to a rapidly changing world. We will address practice in this particular context (programmatic synergies, different sta...

This study aims to reveal how the participant accommodates his speech, interactional resources he deploys, and his motives for exhibiting (non-)accommodative behavior. First, 5 hours of naturally-occurring dyadic interaction was transcribed and analyzed. Then, a semi-structured interview was conduct...

The aim of the presentation is to bring to the foreground the messages students want to put forward. After gathering and intepreting them several conclusions on school culture and socioeconomic factors will be presented and discussed.

The current study investigates access patterns to English media, particularly audiovisual input, among Italian university students. It is based on a questionnaire responded to by 572 participants and is the follow-up of a previous survey carried out in 2016 (Pavesi, Ghia 2020). Results point to a st...

Bridging the gap between language learning in the classroom and at the museum

In this presentation, we ask what might be involved in undertaking an analysis of the language assemblage. 

In this paper we consider the theoretical affordances of producing collaborative research into language diversity with young people using the creative arts. We consider a project, 'Multilingual Streets', which focuses on linguistic landscapes. We suggest that the arts offer new lenses to understand ...

When conducting two partial replication and a larger scale needs assessment studies with students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE), challenges were met at every step, from the informed consent procedures to data analysis. We will discuss these challenges as well as the benefits f...

The aim of this study was to investigate pupils' experiences of learning the Irish language in English-medium primary schools in Ireland. This presentation will give an overview of the research, where children in first class (7 yrs) and fifth class (11 yrs) were given an opportunity to share their v...

The present study investigates the impact of the implementation of a critical approach - i.e. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) - to English language teaching in primary school language classrooms. The significance of teachers’ awareness of methodological principles of CLIL is discus...

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...

Results of several studies prove that implementation of dynamic assessment in the second language teaching contributes to the definition of students' learning potential and improvement (Fulcher, 2013). This paper introduces a case study aiming to investigate the effectiveness of dynamic assessment o...

Genre-based writing pedagogies place particularly high demands on teachers, requiring explicit knowledge and the flexibility to learn new genres for teaching purposes. This study examines the effect of a project in which EAP teachers analyzed, wrote, and designed materials to teach an unfamiliar gen...

The contribution explains the 5 Building Blocks of Holistic (Language) Education concept developed in Vorarlberg/Austria, connecting recent research on multilingual development from a dynamic systems and complexity theory perspective with the five interconnected domains defined in this holistic teac...

The presentation addresses literacy pedagogy in the language of schooling and English in Norwegian Year 2 classrooms. Findings based on reports from classroom observations and teacher interviews are discussed with a focus on aspects of emergent multimodal and multilingual literacy and pedagogy and i...

This presentation explores the decolonization of English language teaching in Canada, and the benefits Indigenous epistemologies can bring to ELT pedagogy. Informed by my situatedness in a Canadian settler community, and an exploration into ESL students’ experiences with indigenous culture, it pro...

We present and evaluate a recently-trialled approach to integrating L2 disciplinary literacies through collaboration between Academic Language and Learning and faculty staff in an Australian university. The mixed-methods evaluation provides insights, from multiple perspectives, into the complexities...

This study examines how task variables (target proficiency levels and academic disciplines) influence linguistic features of speaking responses. Thirty Grade 1 students and thirty Grade 7 students responded to six English language proficiency speaking tasks. Findings indicate clearer differences in ...

The present study analysed 2344 lexical collocations manually extracted from spontaneous L2 English speech produced by 60 Chinese learners of English. A clear pattern of improvement in their oral collocation usage was observed across proficiency levels. The implications of the findings for language ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the process of L2 writing for stance. A beginner to intermediate level student in an undergraduate seminar was observed and narrative inquiry was used. Weaker L2 writers' struggle with stance formation and the role of L1 will be discussed.

The current project investigates the potential of foreign language learning as a cognitive therapy aimed at seniors diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment or late life depression. Functionally monolingual participants follow a language course, to enhance cognitive flexibility. Gains in cognitive f...

From a multiperspective view (students, teachers, administrators and university management), the paper will deal with language use and language attitudes towards standard languages and regional varieties at an Austrian middle size university. A mixed methods approach can show how elite language ideo...

This presentation outlines recent changes in language education policy in Luxembourg which call for a more inclusive and multilingual early language education in the formal and non-formal sector and examines the influence of professional development aimed to help early years practitioners appropriat...

The presentation will focus on mutual intelligibility on Finnish, Estonian, and languages that are closely related to them. I will represent how I am about to organise a test where Finnish testees translate written Estonian, and Estonian testees translate written Finnish. Both groups will also trans...

This study presents a qualitative study on the argumentative strategies that both students and the teacher employ to justify, legitimise or contest the use of plurilingual teaching and learning practices during the implementation of a course in English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

In this study we address two questions: 1. What knowledge is used by students in L1 (Dutch) grammar tasks and 2. To what extent is their L1 knowledge transferable to their L2 (English and German)?

English as a lingua franca (ELF), syntactic alignment, lexical alignment, corpus study

This paper focuses on HL speakers’ academic writing and will discuss measures of literacy as a function of cross-linguistic influence and educational background. The need to write academic texts in Spanish is growing as a part of higher education (e.g. Teacher education). The results highlight the...

This study investigates the implementation of an intensive English program. The data obtained through semi-structured interviews and focus group studies reveal the way the program is implemented, its weaknesses and strengths. The data reveals the way that the program is received by the students. Sev...

This study adopts the Teaching and Learning Cycle for L2 writing classes to influence learners’ understanding of the target texts’ social and communicative purposes. I will summarise the functions of the original TLC. Then, I will explore how EFL learners’ writing skills change through the mod...

This narrative inquiry accompanied one Chinese teacher as she reflected on her experience quitting her normal teaching job and participating full-time as a member of a language-teaching YouTuber team for a period of three years.

The quality of transmission of prosody-related acoustic cues through a cochlear implant (CI; an auditory prosthesis that can partially restore hearing in individuals with sensorineural hearing loss) and the linguistic experience of listeners impose challenges on the identification of native and non-...

The current research suggests that L2 learning does affect L2 learners' cognition of color and color-related emotional expressions.

This paper examines teachers’ code-switching in the non-immersion language classroom as a means of further understanding teacher language use. I consider how the processes and practices of code-switching in this context differ from those observable in general language use, and argue that code-swit...

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.

Revision is used strategically and is considered central to the writing process, but little is known about its differential use in digital, multilingual and multidomain environments. The question of domain and language specificity is addressed in a project investigating writing in two domains and tw...

This is a study on EAP teaching in China, it researches on 5 aspects: curriculum setting, teaching assessment, teaching material development, teacher training and teacher beliefs. We found the deficiencies and suggestions for current EAP programs in China.

The project focuses on identifying policies of "second language teaching and learning" at preschool level in schools in Luxembourg (public, private, European, international), a country marked by 47% of international mobility. Moreover, it inquires how the legal representatives of these children acce...

The presenter discusses how English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research informs English Medium Instruction (EMI), drawing on his research on the awareness of English-within-multilingualism and taking Tamagawa University's Center for ELF as an example. He also suggests the possibility of conjoining ELT...

The use of English as a medium of instruction in the United Arab Emirates has generated debate about the place of English in an otherwise Arabic-speaking region.  This ethnographic study, conducted during the 2010-2017 era of the Abu Dhabi Educational Council with a policy of biliteracy in gove...

One challenge in EMI courses is developing teacher-student rapport. Rapport leads to improved student engagement and academic performance. This study compared two groups where teacher and materials were the same for both groups; the only difference was the language of instruction. Findings suggest r...

My paper presents two longitudinal studies investigating learners' beliefs, attitudes and out-of-school exposure to English in early language teaching. I will first discuss the context of the study and then focus more on the methodology of studying young learners, using our own methods as examples o...

Sojourning family, family language policy, Arabic, Bilingualism, parental language ideologies

This paper reports on an ongoing PhD dissertation which aims to carry out a mixed methods study into catering for diversity in CLIL programs within monolingual settings.

Culture shapes the ways people perceive and verbalize emotions. The study presents a new positive emotion in LX learning, drawn from emotional preferences that encompass L1 culture.

In multilingual classes, social interaction in the context of friendships can be seen as a valuable resource for language acquisition. In this research we study the relationship between friendships in the classroom and the development of language proficiency of in children with German as their first...

This study examines perceptions of professors and students on EMI policies at three Korean universities. Results show that the majorities of the professors and students were involved in EMI due to their university's policy and that they felt lower satisfaction and less interaction than in classes of...

"This paper describes some ways that young people find, listen to, and learn L2 songs and engage in informal language learning. Songs and musical resources developed by teachers for the classroom (including folk/traditional music and children's songs, chants and rhymes) may contain ""simplified"" or...