Abstracts archive

This presentation draws on current new materialist scholarship in applied linguistics and language education to unfold realms of possibilities for language teaching, learning, and the associated research. Both strength and limitations of new materialist research are considered to open lines of thoug...

The presented exploratory case study precedes a larger investigation on class interaction and HE students’ intercultural learning. It aims to create a set of discursive and interactional features of intercultural relation management in elicited student-student discussions. Among other phenomena, s...

We have conducted a cross-linguistic study investigating the role of pauses in online speech processing by Finnish, Swedish, and Russian speakers. We hypothesize that pauses have better potential to explain chunking behavior in Swedish compared to Russian and Finnish.

This study builds on ethnographic family interviews with Greek-speaking families in Sweden. In our talk, we discuss how family language ideologies intersect with the sociopolitical context, migration trajectories, parents' professional and educational background and whether the parents have had a bi...

More favorable affective profiles were found in CLIL in terms of motivation, language attitudes and emotions, yet not for both target languages (English, Dutch) in the politically and linguistically polarized context of Belgium. Comparative results highlight that the socio-affective (and linguistic)...

Institutional responses to declining enrollments in LCTLs should be informed by empirical research on students’ reasons for (not) studying languages. This session presents findings resulting from inter-institutional collaboration on a survey of undergraduates at two large U.S. universities on the ...

Word of the year initiatives can increase society-at-large's awareness of Applied Linguistics. By reflecting the public discourse of the past twelve months, words of the year can literally show what moved people most and how a society ticks.

Die Sammlung von aktuellem Wortschatz gehört zu den Aufgaben des Vereins 'Wort des Jahres' und mündet seit 2002 in der Bekanntgabe des 'Wort des Jahres'. Zum 300-jährigen Bestehen von Liechtenstein ist die Ausstellung '300 Jahre, 300 Wörter' entstanden. Der Verein hat rückblickend auf die letzt...

The presentation illustrates how interdisciplinary compositions can articulate multisensory processes. By classifying agency as a dynamic system between a writer and their audience, the multimodal aspect is foregrounded. Examples establish the self-organizing, fluid, ideological, and intentional pri...

This paper explores a digital literacy practice in the borderland between formal education and leisure where an adult L2 learner and his teacher write text messages to each other. In focus are the participants’ purposes of participating and the discoursal construction of identities that takes plac...

This presentation reports on how EAL students adjust to using a second language, in a new socio-culture, and in an unfamiliar higher educational New Zealand institution. It advocates for these students’ capability and autonomous life skills, and how second language use may impact positively on EAL...

This paper reports effective tutoring and writing center instruction for science students in Japan. The results of analysis show tutors are expected to possess expertise in science research as well as familiarization of Japanese/English academic papers. They also need to build a collaborative relati...

This preliminary qualitative case study presents teachers' and head teachers' views on factors which enable and challenge the teaching of the Sinhala language literacy skills to Deaf primary school students in two residential schools in Sri Lanka. Seven basic themes were identified from the informat...

The American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), an AILA member, was launched in 1977 as a "professional organization of scholars who are interested in and actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics." The presenter will offer an update on the current state of ...

We analyze Korean livestream and North American pre-recorded mukbang (online eating shows), to see what and how linguistic, interactional, and multimodal resources are used by hosts to evaluate food, and thereby construct their identities as food reviewers. Audience participation also contributes to...

Since its inception in 1951, the American Name Society has promoted the scholarly investigation of names. With this goal, the Society holds an annual word-of-the-year contest. The linguistic winners not only reflect, but may also affect national developments. The (dis)advantages of combining folk ep...

This research aims to explore English language learners' (ELLs) gaming practices in a location-based mobile game. Informed by Swain's (2000) languaging, ELL's gaming dialogues emerged during the gameplay are examined. Study participants include 3 focal groups who are undergraduates. The study report...

A study of the language management, language practice and language ideology for two competing codes (English vs. Hanyu Pinyin) on street name signs in China, using Spolsky’s (2004, 2009) tripartite language policy model as analytical framework.

This presentation of a joint teacher-researcher collaboration focuses on interpretive and reflective reading of fiction, an important part of the Swedish language subject. The aim of the study is to explore powerful pedagogical design principles (Cobb et al., 2003), grounded in teachers’ knowledge...

This study investigates if and how xenophobia is found in the discourse of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, on the national radio station during 'the migrant crisis' in Europe through Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and the application of van Dijk's (1993) sociocognitive approach...

We measured how L2 writing is similar to L1 writing with respect to lexical/semantic quality through topic modelling (Word2Vec). Results indicate that the quality of L2 writing approximates to that of L1 writing as proficiency increases. Writing prompts were found to affect little in this progress.

Drawing on an ethnographic study of Indigenous education initiatives in Mexico, this paper focuses on the roles of local activists in language policy. I examine different strategies and stances of language activism, examining popular culture activists who do not focus on 'language' in a trad...

This presentation will offer insights from research into the evolving status of language and literacy support provision for children with EAL in mainstream Irish schools and the inherent issues for primary teachers, at a time when a language curriculum and Special Education allocation model is being...

While critical ethnographic methods can reveal how writers perceive academic writing and publishing, quantitative methods make it possible to identify patterns – including those not necessarily perceived at the individual level. To illustrate this, I draw from a published quantitative study that e...

Research into how and why language teachers use literature as content is presented to explore one aspect of various pedagogical and collaborative practices open to language teachers in CLIL contexts. Language teachers’ beliefs and practices are examined based on a literature review, focus group st...

The presentation examines women’s contribution to the EFL market in Poland from a historical perspective. Its main aim is to present women authors of English handbooks published in the first half of the 20th and their didactic achievements, especially those regarding promoting English culture.

By analysing textbooks, websites and publications, this presentation attempts to theorise grounded views of English use in education in Bangladesh. It is highlighted that local use of English is invariably complex reflecting both monolingual and translingual views, and the implicit desire for metrop...

Freewriting is a drafting strategy used to help writers get ideas out onto the page. In this mixed-methods study, keyboard logging data is collected while participants freewrite. I use Inputlog and other data to explore the question: Does freewriting do what we think it does?""

This study investigates the extent to which writers' second language (L2) proficiency affects the emergence of real-time writing behaviours (captured by the keystroke logging program) and the relationship between behaviours and text quality. Different from previous writing studies, this study was co...

In collaboration with students and teachers in three different language classrooms, this case study investigated the choice of a second foreign language in Swedish elementary school. The study explored students’ beliefs related to language learning, learning practices and language assessment at an...