Abstracts archive

The example of the project #OurWords shows the potential of OER for language teaching. The project will create a free database and app for language acquisition that is oriented towards the interests of the students and offers various access options so that students with a need for support can also b...

This paper deepens our understanding of affective variables in the (foreign) language class by presenting the findings of a web-based survey study on perceived enjoyment of English (foreign language) and German (first language) classes. Data from 754 secondary- and tertiary-level students in the Ger...

I report on how teacher candidates used cultural excavation activities to reflect upon a study abroad experience in Peru and the role of these activities in developing intercultural competence. Findings show movement towards more ethnorelative stances, demonstrating cultural excavation as a powerful...

In this presentation we argue that teacher-researcher collaborations hold the promise of embracing translanguaging pedagogies in TESOL classrooms. We propose a conceptual framework to call for both parties to develop translanguaging co-stances, and make translanguaging co-designs and co-shifts. We t...

Initial results from the pre-test of a largescale longitudinal study of English and Swedish vocabulary knowledge among students in Swedish middle school are reported. The results are compared between CLIL and non-CLIL students, and between different CLIL groups as the way CLIL is implemented varies ...

The global political climate has created an unprecedented influx of refugees entering Canada and Canadian schools. This study explores the complex relationship between refugee families and their childrens’ schools, exploring both informal and formal ways to optimize parent-teacher collaboration, a...

In this session we will describe a service-learning experience carried out by volunteer university students. The teaching of languages in higher education should contribute to the integral development of students and democratic societies. The theoretical framework, the service learning experience it...

This mixed-method project aimed at reviewing EFL teacher training policies through the analysis of 3 corpora using keywords-in-context through Nvivo12. Results suggest discrepancies in the emphases given to different areas in the curriculum while showing evidence of neoliberal ideologies through the...

While governments in Latin America position English as "the" language to learn across educational systems, the authors elaborate on a series of projects that incorporate a decolonial approach to interculturality in language teaching and learning in Colombia and intend to promote respect for sociolin...

In this paper, we would like to present Virgínia Faria Gersão and her grammar, A Gramática das Criancinhas, written in a very original way with the purpose of facilitating the students’ learning.

This linguistic ethnographic study addresses two Ugandan women living in Istanbul as skilled migrants. The analyses of the participants' everyday language practices in the city aim to show how these two women construct and negotiate their identities as skilled migrants in Istanbul through their (non...

How can writing instructors develop their learner’s syntactic complexity in the L2 classroom? The researcher used a mixed methods design to examine the effects of three types of tasks on the development of complexity. The results indicated that tasks that focus learners’ attention on syntactic a...

This paper will report the experiences of 36 trainee teacher students at a UK based University engaging with a variety of activities during an intensive telecollaboration English for Academic purposes (EAP) training course on Moodle.

The purpose of this study is to investigate a method of giving feedback on essay writing in order to focus students' attention on logicality. Students' comments on using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) for writing an essay need to be analyzed to examine whether students are paying attention...

This small-scale qualitative study explores the role multilingualism plays in in the therapeutic experience of refugee torture survivors, within a supportive community. Fifteen community members were interviewed. The findings reveal that using English, a later-learned language for all of the intervi...

This study investigates the core elements of which constitute the expected standards of ELF in international communities. Quantitatively, two online surveys were conducted with one hundred participants of both Japanese and non-Japanese who are related to international communities; and qualitatively,...

Animating the experiences of TEFL/SL graduate international students at a Canadian university with new materialities concepts, we seek an understanding of agentive navigation of pedagogical ecologies as a double becoming (Massumi, 2015, p. 124). We offer possibilities for de-territorializing the fie...

Question of how research articles in different languages are related to each other in the process of knowledge production has received little research attention. I address this question and empirically focus on citation practices of experienced scholars. I use ‘paired analysis’ as a particular a...

We focus on migrants' opportunities to develop and utilize their field-specific language resources in practical training. Some participants of our ethnographic study found their access to meaningful tasks and L2 resources to be too limited. Language awareness should thus be an integral part of super...

The current study presents age and gender differences in the production of Greek vowels. The vowel productions of 20 males and 20 females, aged between 18 and 50 and 20 children, 10 boys and 10 girls, aged between 8 and 10 were analysed.

The present study investigates whether Chinese immigrant workers in Spain are perceived as polite as they intend to be by L1 Spanish speakers when producing requests in Spanish and, if not, whether intonation might be responsible for these communicative misunderstandings.

This contribution presents the "Language Village" as an empirically valid method and didactic approach for activating linguistic repertoires of multilingual secondary students, while not only integrating all schooling languages but also other foreign and heritage languages in tasks, material and int...

This presentation considers the linguistic patterns found in marketing materials at a Canadian university. This survey looked for references to neoliberal language of market freedom, expediency, and economic mobility. These were then mapped onto ways that these linguistic forms reproduce a commodity...

The core of dietetic treatment of elderly clients with malnutrition is stimulating them to eat better. Although dietetic counselling complements only providing oral nutritional supplements, the overall effectiveness of dietary treatment remains limited. In this study, effects of dietetic counselling...

Summary This study is part of my PhD dissertation that will be carried out in Kosovo, in April 2020. Prior to the main study a pilot study is planned to be conducted in January-February 2020.

This paper explores the policy-making process of "Languages Connect - Ireland's Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017-2026" by focusing on the way agents wield the meaning of language policy ideas and the way power relations are manifested behind interactive processes of ideational power....

This micro analytic study of classroom interaction focuses on alternative questions initiated by the teacher as a first pair part in a speaking course for learners of English at tertiary level. Alternative questions project one word answer from learners and enable them to be involved in the speaking...

Shadowing is to imitate model voices without seeing its scrip within a second delay. Though it is a well-examined training for L2 learners, specialized texts focusing on weaknesses of learners’ listening abilities have not fully developed yet in Japan. Adequate texts with analyzing evaluations and...

This paper sets out to explore teacher beliefs and practices for Modern Foreign Language teaching in a Scottish primary school under the 1+2 Scottish language policy. It illustrates an antagonistic relationship between pupils who behave as multilingual individuals, neoliberal policy orientations and...

Tosepan Kalnemachtiloyan is an indigenous immersion and bilingual school working to 1) revitalize indigenous language, 2) recover indigenous knowledge, and 3) reframe indigenous identity. Through critical ethnography, I considered the ‘Language Planning (LP) Onion’, and finally adapted a useful ...

Educational programmes based on the Language Gap theory evaluate linguistic practices on a two-point scale in which children’s linguistic background is contrasted to the norm at school. The presentation provides a different lens; a critical ethnographic sociolinguistic analysis of Roma disadvantag...

This study investigated the contextual effects of two different sojourn contexts on L2 development. The results of the qualitative analysis provided broader insights into the features of Anglophone and English as a Lingua Franca study abroad contexts, underlining issues of intercultural competence a...

This study aims to report the degree of agreement among 10 English-speaking instructors (i.e., native speakers of English) and 10 Japanese-speaking instructors of English as well as approximately 130 Japanese learners of English (the 1st year undergraduates) on appropriateness of requests with vario...

This presentation reports on an interventional study that investigated (1) in how far German and Dutch students can profit from instruction in decoding strategies involving receptive multilingualism when decoding the previously unknown neighbor language and (2) in how far these skills are transferra...

Insights from 468 migrants revealed the emotional attachment to the first language as intensifying their feelings of difference when using the local language in emotional conversations. Participants' self-perceptions varied from a sense of detachment to liberation depending on the emotion being expr...

The aim of the paper is to present how working with texts of migration literature in FL classes can stimulate the work towards the democratic culture through the reflection on a language as an instrument of social inclusion and exclusion, of power and prestige.

The presentation offers analyses of formulating practices in which nonnative students characterize or recast what was said in the previous turn(s) by their teacher, typically but not limited with 'so you are saying...' These practices offer insight into how students clarify lesson contents, infer wh...

This paper explores gendered ethnicities in Polynesia through discourses about overweight bodies. Various forms of compliance and of resistance turn bodies into sites of politicized conflicts, as well as into potential “spaces of otherwise” that allow an expression of indigeneity which would coi...

This paper reports the practice of a C1-level English for Science and Technology CLIL course at a Chinese university. Drawing on the pluriliteracies model, it explores the practice and efficacy of a genre-based pedagogy backed up by solid linguistic theory that integrates all the 4Cs and its implica...

This paper presents findings of a classroom-based investigation into the professional development paths of five pre-service English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers, as they learned how to translate concepts of plurilingualism and plurilingual education studied at University into their situated ...

Scientific abstracts written by Japanese EFL science majors were compared with the abstracts appeared in published research articles, and we found that EFL students used metadiscourse markers to connect concrete ideas more often and that they were hesitant to use metadiscourse markers to connect abs...

This action research reflects the teacher-researcher’s curriculum of Workplace English and reconstructs a pedagogy for English for Occupational Purposes. Data was gathered from 17 interviews, teaching logs, and teaching evaluation. The findings are hoped to shed light on the learner-centered appro...

How did women learn Ancient Greek in the Renaissance? My paper will address this question by discussing two Greek grammar books written for Ippolita Sforza, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Milan Francesco I Sforza and a highly intelligent woman who produced numerous Latin letters, orations, and p...

This talk presents the Holi-Frysk 2.0 project, in which an intervention is developed, aiming to create more positive attitudes from teachers and pupils in secondary education towards Frisian and multilingualism. We will present examples of activities, teachers' experiences and a first look at the ef...

This presentation addresses a longitudinal study on the pedagogy of augmented reality (AR) implementation in English second-language (ESL) classrooms. The presenter discusses the unique attributes of AR technology that support ESL teacher instruction and students’ learning. Study findings help rev...

Graduates from Chinese-medium schools in Hong Kong often have lower competence in English and are disadvantaged in schooling and the labour market. This narrative inquiry traces the socio-academic trajectory of a CMI school graduate in local and overseas EMI higher education and relevant consequence...

How can we make plurilingual competence more tangible and empower learners as participants in ‘glocal’ communities? This talk discusses the development and piloting of an E-portfolio and platform for plurilingual action-oriented learning, as a feature of LINCDIRE (LINguistic and Cultural DIversi...

This study reviews studies between 2010 and 2020 to examine screencast second language written corrective feedback under the framework of Best Practices and the International Society for Technology in Education standards to reconceptualize the notion of e-feedback and refine the best practice in the...

This presentation explores the textual transformations occurred in the bilingual adaptation of Cambridge English Readers in China, and discusses 1) the change of view of foreign language learning behind the adaptation and 2) implications for Chinese learners of English.

Using a stylistic method of analysis, we determined how student and (semi-)professional writers linguistically realize the communicative purposes of the genre literary book review. We will show that such stylistic descriptions cannot only reveal how written language develops, but also which concepts...

Globalization led to an increase in the linguistic diversity of students in higher education, including domestic language minority speakers (LMS). We will look at the predictive value of academic language proficiency of LMS in relation to other demographic and educational background factors and cons...

We have developed a culturally appropriate vocabulary test specifically for young Chinese learners of English. We will discuss the development process and present the full set of results from two field tests with several hundred participants, including an analysis of the relationship proficiency lev...

My study investigated the usage, role and perceived relevance of English language entry requirements for English-medium programmes at higher education level in Germany. Websites of over four hundred German universities and polytechnics were analysed; students and programme leaders were surveyed as w...

Becoming successful strategic readers in EFLL is a true challenge for children. Our study indicates that although there is a statistically significant difference in reading results in relation to the use of some comprehension strategies, young learners are not fully aware of a range of strategies an...

This presentation will provide an intuitive and accessible framework for bridging the personal and professional benefits of action research with the illustrative power of CA.

This presentation describes the adaptation process of multiple sign language development assessment instruments for Finnish Sign Language. Additionally, we will explain how the teacher were trained to use the assessment instruments and how the large data on children acquiring FinSL was collected in ...

This presentation will explore the ethical challenges faced by administrative support staff in negotiating their communicative practices at an internationalising Swedish university. The study presented promises to contribute towards debate surrounding language planning for internationalising Higher ...

This presentation will offer an overview of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA) activities and scientific areas of AESLA with a focus on the possible connections with the goals of AIALA, as can be the creation of collaborative research networks with scholars from the other member ass...

In our paper, we propose to study a tandem language learning environment through desktop videoconferencing, or teletandem (Telles, 2009) for French and Chinese as foreign languages. Our study aims to understand how, through the videoconferencing environment, interlocutors position themselves and the...

This presentation outlines a conceptual model for the study of agency in language policy and planning (LPP) informed by social realist theory, and grounded in empirical research conducted in various national contexts.

This study evaluates a reading intervention to bridge the gap between Dutch secondary school and university reading. The lesson series addresses prereading- (activating preknowledge, interpreting graphs), while-reading (text monitoring, critical reading) and post-reading strategies (graphic organize...

This study explores English language learners' attitudes toward English as 'free language' and lingua franca communication.

Using a six-month ethnographic design, this study examines the language ideologies among study abroad students admitted in an English-taught degree program in China. It reveals how the divergent language ideologies impact and are shaped by their investment of learning a second language in the multil...

We present how we examine comprehension on various linguistic levels and identify obstacles to comprehension in the Informed Consent process using a mixed methods approach and cooperating with different groups of practitioners. Based on the results, we show how we aim to optimise the Informed Consen...

The presentation focuses on instances of metaphoricity generated during oral foreign language examinations. Main question is whether the negotiation of metaphor can fall under the scope of symbolic power (Kramsch 2011) and thus contribute to discursive inequalities that can reflect on other discours...

There are many language learning websites and apps marketed directly to consumers for autonomous language study, yet we lack standards by which to evaluate these learning platforms’ worth. This presentation will present a set of evaluative criteria for considering the linguistic merit of autonomou...

Our study aims at examining cross-linguistic differences in naturalistic speech perception. We hypothesised that size of chunks in Swedish, Russian and Finnish is affected by differences in the structure of these languages. We chose extracts of spontaneous spoken speech and asked native speakers to ...

Reflexivity is approached though a model of metadiscourse, focusing on the discourse itself (metalinguistic function), the writer-speaker (expressive function) and the real or imagined audience (directive function). The model is applied to a net-based teaching context and students’ synchronous (N=...

This presentation describes the CLIL approach taken in undergraduate English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses at a Sino-US joint venture university in China. Language serves as the content in a course designed to help freshmen meet the challenges of EMI in the liberal arts curriculum.

Without taking the linguistic reality of named languages for granted, what does 'English' mean in the context of adult ESOL? This project seeks to interrogate this issue by analyzing recurrent discourse patterns and meta-linguistic/pragmatic commentary in two classrooms, exploring teachers' linguist...

This paper focuses on the agentive meaning-making role that teachers hold in enacting language policies in Maldivian schools. Drawing on data from curriculum documents, teacher surveys and interviews, I present how teachers’ ideologies about language and language teaching impact how they interpret...

The paper argues for the need to include an increased focus on language variation and Critical Language Awareness in Mother Tongue Instruction in Sweden, using an additive expansion-oriented pedagogy (Leeman 2018). Currently, these perspectives are largely lacking in MTI. The aim is to expand studen...

In a well-known study of adult ESL learners, Goh (2000) found that most L2 listening problems were related to the ‘perception’ stage of the process. With a different population – UK lower-intermediate school children learning French and Spanish – the findings of a pilot replication study sho...

This 3-year longitudinal study tracked 3 Chinese EFL undergraduates and analyzed the collected data through CDST techniques, including min-max graphs and Monte-Carlo analyses. Our results confirm flux developmental processes of L2 listening, depict divergent patterns of intra-individual variability ...

The verbal materials consider as mainstream of communication for a long time. However, non-verbal communication starts to speak eloquently in our life. This study examines the potential of multimodal teaching methods and materials in classroom. That provides us a clue to make more useful strategy fo...

A genre-based pedagogy that exploits the connections between reading and writing is likely to improve aforementioned skills, and genre knowledge and awareness. This is tested by randomly assigning 12 grade 10 classes to either column or news article lesson series and subsequently assess reading and ...

We present a person-centred approach to informal mobile language learning. After explicating theoretical principles and methodological decisions, we will illustrate with an empirical study that examined L2 learners’ learning experiences afforded by their selective use of varied mobile technologies...

This paper reports on a longitudinal study on the effects of reading-while-listening, reading with textual input enhancement (i.e. underlining), and reading-while-listening plus textual input enhancement on Vietnamese pre-intermediate EFL learners' acquisition of collocations.

This presentation explores educational change by examining how a group of language teachers implemented blended learning at a Colombian university. I discuss, in particular, the experiences of four teacher leaders responsible for implementing the change and suggest implications for the professional ...

To support preschool teachers with applying the new law that declared multilingual early education mandatory in Luxembourg, we offered a professional development course in translanguaging pedagogy over the course of 6 months. The results from teacher questionnaires and focus groups show that there h...

When a robot enters a foreign language classroom, the learning situation changes. We will analyze the kind of turn-taking that takes place and how actions and sequences are organized. We also pay attention to how children respond to the robot and how they seek help from the teacher.

EFL textbooks carry instructional content as well as principles for instruction. In this paper I present a modified version of Bernstein's model of pedagogic discourse used to interpret the underlying power and control relations during the enactment of an EFL listening textbook in a university conte...

This study reports a US writing center tutor’s interventions in an L2 doctoral student’s dissertation. Analysis of tutoring transcripts, interviews, and documents revealed the tutor’s systematic practice of constructing the tutee’s drafts through oral dictation. Findings suggest a need for d...

In this study we aimed to examine the challenges faced by deaf students, professors, Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) interpreters and staff, starting from the process of democratizing access to higher education and focusing, particularly, on the insertion and participation of deaf students in acade...

Listeners make negative evaluations of non-native accents. We show that phonetic perception and social evaluations improve when L2 speakers use co-speech hand gestures (emblems), even if non-native accents themselves stay the same. This suggests that in cross-cultural communication, more attention s...

Through longitudinal close analysis of Whatsapp group chat messages, this study reports changes in how EFL students accomplish requests overtime. The findings suggest that changes are both due to students' evolving linguistic repertoires and to an increased entitlement to make the requests.

The contribution presents the course concept of an intercomprehension course for Romance languages offered at the Language Centre of the University of Salzburg. The primary aim of the course is the construction of (receptive) plurilingual and pluricultural competencies.

This paper is inspired and motivated by emerging scholarship (Guilherme & de Souza, 2019; Macedo, 2019; Phipps, 2019; Pennycook & Makoni, 2019, among others) inviting language and culture education practitioners to question the ideologies underpinning how we think and frame our practice and ...

Adequately responding to linguistic diversity in the classroom is imperative in European school contexts. The intervention study combined insights from multilingual education and L2 motivational research and addressed diversity in a resource-oriented way. The data are promising and indicate a positi...

This paper recounts a sociocultural inquiry into bilingual students’ self-regulated strategic learning of language and subject content, through which we interpreted how and why the students appropriated resources strategically for self-regulated learning. It contends that sociocultural perspective...

In this paper we focus on the lived and affective realities of children’s engagement with language and schooling by exploring everyday understandings of spelling. We draw on co-produced film data from a research project that took place in an elementary school in the North of the UK.

This talk examines perceptions of decoloniality in African linguistics, as taught inside and outside of Africa. Building on Riedel and de Vos (2018), we explore a range of issues related to awareness of colonial pasts and their effects on contemporary societies at universities teaching African lingu...

This study explores morphosyntactic alignment during text-based computer chat among international EAP students performing six text chat tasks. Chat-logs of the conversations were scrutinized for the re-use of structures that had been introduced by either partner. We discuss how observed group patter...

This presentation examines how the use of heritage or so-called ‘migrant’ languages by children whose first language is not German is characterized in public discourse. This is achieved through analysis of data collected from online reader comments at daily and weekly German newspapers of record...

The study provides an overview of lexicographic and information technology solutions for a mobile application “An English-Latvian-English Translating and Phrase-Dictionary of Medical Terms” developed in collaboration between researchers of two universities. This dictionary is specially developed...

Nonnative speakers of English may not be fully equipped to communicate effectively through the oral mode. With this in mind, and through English proficiency testing and a needs analysis on oral communication, Iowa State University has developed a training program to prepare graduate students to beco...

This presentation will explore how the use of formulaic sequences (FS) affects the cognitive fluency of the L2 writing process and how these sequences are related to the length of bursts. The presentation will describe L2 French students' pausal behaviour in relation to their use of FSs (learner-int...

By introducing important notions in research on language biographies, this contribution exemplifies with a case study how biography and language do not belong to one person alone, and change across the lifespan while staying consistent with the (changing) image of the self.Link to the video includin...

This paper presents a research study that empirically investigates the effects of peer rubric feedback as a reflective approach on pre-service foreign language teachers’ oral feedback skills in the target language English. The author presents the rubric as a reflective tool, discusses the rational...

This study explores whether L2 Japanese speakers produce for the purpose of expressiveness by examining the production of expressive morphology and accompanying gesture used by L2 Japanese speakers with English as L1 and Korean as L1, with L1 Japanese speakers as baseline. We demonstrate that, unlik...