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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...

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...

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.