Abstracts archive

By offering a case of translanguaging-based classroom interaction in a multilingual university in China, this study problematizes several discourses that prevail international university policies, including English monolingualism and the linguistic and individual-oriented bias of language.

It is about the social praxis and the distinct aspects of the world of a transgender subject, considering performativity, identity and gender aspects. As an analytical corpus there is the Brazilian funk Bixa Travesti which offers itself linguistic-textual and discursive conditions about representati...

This paper explores how multilingual children re-signify three intertwined myths about the bilingual student, linguistic diversity and language competence, when, in the researcher-generated activity, My linguistic world, they are invited to map and talk about their lived experiences as multiple lang...

My presentation deals with TV news in the context of Instagram. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis, I explore how public broadcaster use the affordances of the Instagram platform to present news as "newsbites" and adapt to shifting digital news cultures.

Metaphor can be a powerful means of persuasion, but may also meet resistance. This paper explores resistance to argumentatively used metaphor. It presents a typology of resistance to metaphor, offering tools to audiences to resist undesirable metaphors and insight to speakers in what resistance to m...

Multilingualism has become inevitable in the present interconnected world. Understanding whether it is being accepted or just tolerated is an important issue for cutting-edge sociolinguistic research. This Saudi-based study utilizes a bifocal lens to examine undergraduate students’ attitudes towar...

The presentation includes first findings from a grounded theory project (Charmaz 2014) which investigates experiences of multilingual adolescents living in urban Austrian areas and who find themselves in a period of educational transformation. Preliminary findings suggest that decision-processes are...

With classrooms becoming ever more multilingual, there is a growing need to understand the relationship between multilingualism and educational achievement. We report on a longitudinal, mixed-methods study tracking this relationship to further our understanding of the role of multilingual identity i...

University policy trends for English medium instruction (EMI) are explored in this study in the wake of transnational campus growth in China. Data were collected via a policy scan of more than 400 'double first class' universities and interviews with EMI programme heads. Findings highlight the emerg...

Supporting ones speech with signs from a sign language holds great potential for hard of hearing people and their environment. This talk argues that this will hold great potential for deaf communities, as it massively increases the number of people with some (lexical) knowledge of the sign language,...

The paper explores the lived experiences of multilingual students who migrated to Sweden, based on interviews and writing logs. The results show various languages can be valuable for learning, and previous academic knowledge, entangled with language use, affects the success in tertiary education irr...

This paper presents findings from a participatory ethnography project that investigates translingual approaches that acknowledge the significance of multimodal, multilingual  and transcultural practices that educators used in a middle-years EAL classroom in a third-tier city in Canada to b...

This study aims to uncover five teenage gamers’ language use (L1+L2) intramurally (in the L2 English classroom) and extramurally (at home), and to offer comparisons. Multiple datasets were collected during two weeks and analyzed using mixed methods. Preliminary results indicate differences regardi...

Based on a corpus of one week’s newscasts of the main 15-minute newscasts, the 100-seconds version and the App, the presentation will compare the content, genres and text types and the linguistic features of these three formats of the German Tagesschau, the news of the public, non-commercial TV ch...

This study investigated the relationships between evolving professional identities and learning-in-practice experiences of novice French language teaching assistants learning multiliteracies pedagogies over two years. Findings reveal complex relationships between professional identities and degrees ...

This presentation explores the implementation of an interactionist Dynamic Assessment model aimed at diagnosing and promoting the conceptual development of aspectual contrasts in novice L2 Spanish learners in a K-12 context.

This study examines second language (L2) reading/listening comprehension in adolescent English learners. Results showed direct effects of L2 vocabulary/grammar on L2 reading/listening comprehension, and indirect effects of working memory, L1 inferencing-making, and general L1 ability via L2 vocabula...

This study attempts to explore the trajectory of pre-service EFL teachers’ professional development in a collaborative online community of practice and to delve deeper into examining how such a community facilitates their reflective skills and expertise development.

This paper presents a replication of Hu and Nation’s (2000) influential study on the 98% vocabulary coverage threshold for reading comprehension. Using a non-academic sample population, it will follow the original study design and also expand it to provide more robust insights into the validity of...

This talk outlines how students’ gesture-speech interface in second language classrooms/studies can provide teachers/researchers with a more comprehensive understanding of what students do and do not understand in the classroom. Gaining a full sense of students’ understanding helps teachers/rese...

Using Bourdieu’s (1986) field-capital-habitus lens, this qualitative case study aimed to understand how transnationalism and cultural capital affect Chinese astronaut families’ (sole parents residing in Canada with partners remaining in China) investment strategies in their adolescent study abro...

This study discusses how a multimodal semiotic approach offers Language Socialization a robust analytical method for examining the dialogic nature of physics socialization interlinking past experiences and present on-going involvements, to future responses across learning spaces. (Re/pre)contextuali...

Audio-based interpreting has lately become a widespread communicative practice in multilingual encounters. However, its linguistic-communicative requirements have hardly been explored. In this paper, I will outline the features of interactional remoteness and investigate interpreter-mediated encount...

The comparison of news reports in public and private broadcasting stations in the context of the 2021 presidential campaign in Rzeszów  raises a question about a leading role of media and a profiling of its target group as a reflection of the split in the Polish society.

We present how students’ writing skills develop in relation to the evolution of learner agency by using biographical retrodiction. Narratives of individuals were constructed based on in-depth interviews. The findings suggest complementary roles of agency and writing and benefits of the proposed me...

Researching complex and dynamic constructs such as motivation can be challenging. However, approaching this inquiry from a practitioner perspective may offer a multitude of opportunities. I will relate my experience as a teacher-researcher who investigated motivation during and English for Academic ...

This study examined the individual characteristics of pre/in-service teachers in South Korea and their understanding of Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK). The results revealed an association between teachers' self-reported TPACK and teaching experience, and suggestions are prov...

This study measured the impact of a training intervention on subject teachers’ language awareness (TLA). Subject teachers from multilingual classrooms in France (N = 30) participated in daylong workshops and were given a month to practice the new methods. TLA was measured through questionnaires, v...

We examine the uptake of elaborative corrective feedback by 200 Spanish/Catalan primary school EFL learners using early reading development digital games over a year. Results will be discussed in relation to the role of corrective feedback in the context of digital games and how this may contribute ...

This study explores immersion teacher candidate and student teaching supervisor perspectives on and experiences with the use of an immersion-specific Rubric and accompanying Workbook for assessing and developing preservice teacher performance and practices. Analysis revealed both positive perspectiv...