Abstracts archive

Successful CLIL at tertiary level is particularly challenging as the complexity of the subject and the simultaneous use of a foreign language increase the cognitive load in teachers and students alike. Our paper introduces a framework for teacher training uniting cognition, language and content to b...

Inspired by previous research exploring visual learner narratives, this study explores which learning activities and emotions are represented in Norwegian pupils’ drawings of themselves in two different multilingual settings, learning L2 English and L3 French/German/Spanish.

This presentation discusses life-story narratives of self-claimed monolingual speakers of Japanese about their language learning and language use from the perspective influenced by the Deleuzian concept of rhizome. The language experiences of the "monolinguals" were structured by linguistically dive...

In Slovenia, the Word of the year poll is carried out since 2016 by the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and media. A shortlist of ten words is released, chosen from a list of words, submitted by the general public at the organizers’ appeal. The word of the year is ele...

The present study investigates the long-term effects of multilinguism on cognitive flexibility by examining the relation between multilinguism and cognitive capacities of self-regulation in adulthood. Results support the assumption that multilingualism might contribute to long-term cognitive benefit...

In a primary education partial immersion setting in the Netherlands, pupils’ language proficiency as well as quality and quantity of EFL teachers’ language use was observed and analyzed. Results indicate that pupils’ EFL proficiency is related to quantity of exposure, but also to the quality o...

I draw on biographization research with migrants to explore how a focus on the research apparatus as material assemblages contributes to understand language repertoires. I focus on objects as “prisms” (Budach et al. 2015) to illustrate how objects and human actions help understand speaking condi...

This paper reports on how a FutureLearn Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) was blended into English Language Teaching (ELT) university programmes in conjunction with telecollaboration/Virtual Exchange (COIL). It discusses how the addition of a MOOC blend can enhance a telecollaborative exchange .

This ethnographic paper sheds light on how various agents use limited resources to create 'alternative spaces' in Crimea in the context of international isolation. The combination of a 'walking tour' technique with the analysis of linguistic landscapes demonstrates how the current state of affairs c...

This study explores challenges and effective approaches in moving from graded readers up to ungraded novels. A case study will be reported about university students in Japan who experienced two years of extensive reading with graded readers. The effects of their previous ER experience and effective ...

While the findings of Gygax et al.’s study are of utmost interest, it has never been replicated. I will carefully examine its outcomes and compare it to mine. The partial replication will convey a more nuanced understanding of prior claims and hopefully contribute to a well-grounded discussion of ...

This study advances the knowledge of identity construction through language by bridging the gap between the meso-level of institutional practices, the micro-level of individual learners' investment, and the macro-level of the national language education policy and ideology. The findings bear signifi...

This talk focuses on the importance of clarity of instruction, particularly in L2 classrooms. Using examples from a variety of instructional settings, we show how conversation analytic insights can be translated into actual teaching methods. We also suggest that being clear helps foster an inviting ...

This paper reports the research about Better Nursing Handover training at a bilingual hospital in Hong Kong. A communication training was delivered to 50 nurses based on actual practices and a new communication protocol, focusing on the ISBAR structure and the quality of care, namely CARE protocol. ...

Drawing on ongoing longitudinal case studies, this paper explores undergraduate students’ evolving language perceptions and practices as they develop pluri/translingual academic literacies at a bilingual Canadian university. Data triangulation reveals tensions between an institutional regime of pa...

In this paper, aiming at decolonising multilingualism (Phipps 2019), we propose the concept of ‘biographical encounter’ to capture the messy yet dialogic nature of constructing a life story in a research event, where both the researcher’s and the participant’s lifetime and language learning ...

This paper looks at classroom practices as products of faculty level policy. It takes it outset in three different courses taught as parts of English medium programs at different faculties of the University of Copenhagen to discuss how motivations for university internationalization should be though...

Brazilian Applied Linguistics has a 50-year tradition focusing on the articulation of language with various fields of knowledge. This presentation aims to put forward a general overview of research in Applied Linguistics in Brazil, focusing on contemporary social life and the interdisciplinary persp...

Translingual practice is the norm in plurilingual contexts such as the United Arab Emirates. However, this is not reflected in educational policy. This presentation explores 100 Emirati university students’ language use, ideologies, and perspectives on English medium instruction. Ways to combat do...

Romani appears nowhere in Europe as language of instruction at school. In our translanguaging-project, teachers reorganise learning processes based on the idea of the unitary language repertoire and provide a place for Romani in the lessons. I present how successes of this project result from the rh...

Teacher education should prepare teachers to contribute to a more equitable, inclusive and peaceful world. This presentation reports on a case study conducted with pre-service teachers in a Portuguese university and aimed at understanding whether, how and to what extent they integrate plurilingual a...

Adopting a lens informed by posthumanism and materiality, we explore the dynamics of multilingual and multimodal story creation mediated by ScribJab (scribjab.com), involving human and more-than-human participants. We focus on agencements and processes of becoming at work in a multilingual and multi...

English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has become a new normal at universities across the globe. This presentation reports findings from a study within the Japanese context, where various pedagogical issues have emerged concerning students' learning outcomes despite the stakeholders' unf...

Based on findings from a case study derived from a larger ethnographic project that attends to the learning and living experiences of 8 undergraduate Chinese international students in the U.S., we foreground in this paper the affordances of a transliteracy-based understanding to examine student sojo...

The new online Learner Development Journal was initiated to create an accessible forum for engaging with and writing about inclusive practitioner research. Here, we problematise the brokering of alternative writing practices and discuss the difficulties for editors, reviewers, and contributors in br...

This paper approaches the speaking subject through the work of fiction, which depicts multilingual encounters in contemporary Sweden. We exemplify and discuss how lived experiences of language are made salient in boundary transgressions, and how the authors use linguistic variation to construct imag...

Language choices in multilingual families are strongly influenced by the parents' biographies. This presentation analyses the case of a quadrilingual, translocal family and the parents’ struggle to use their daughter’s linguistic repertoire to re-invent themselves as global citizens and to blur ...

This presentation shares the outcomes of a project focusing on identifying the unique language-learning needs of Syrian learners with refugee experiences, using surveys, interviews, and learners' oral production data, to inform the design of pedagogical tasks and classroom materials within a task-ba...

The transition from elementary to secondary school has been identified as a crucial juncture for early foreign language learning’s (EFLL) long-term success. This cross-sectional, quantitative study investigates students’ perception of the transition, how their self-concepts impact their percepti...

This talk presents initial findings from a project examining translanguaging and other multilingual practices in Zambia, Botswana and Tanzania. It explores which language and literacy practices are promoted, valued and expected inside classrooms and the ways in which these reflect and differ from th...