Abstracts archive

This presentation focuses on the discursive production of class status and, specifically, the management of distinction/privilege during conversations about, and around, food.

This study analyzes Business Students’ perceptions on languages in the multilingual context of the Basque Autonomous Community. The study takes into account as a variable not only the L1 of the students, but their whole linguistic repertoire by defining them on different levels of multilingualism ...

This paper explores how members of resuscitation teams in a hospital plan their work through requests for and offers of participation in courses of action.

This paper analyses narratives told by Brazilian academics about their past and current language and literacy practices, in teaching, learning, administration, research. We show how increasing digitization and internationalization are reshaping literacy and language practices, along with explicit an...

This presentation reports on the findings from an investigation into Chinese EFL learners’ cognitive processes while composing argumentative essays in English by applying stimulated recall. Findings revealed that with GOs as a visual aid, EFL learners stayed more focused, got less sidetracted in w...

In this study, we combined corpus analyses and memory recall experiments to show that experience with natural language input influences chunking ability. As predicted, our results indeed suggest that our ability to use chunking to process linguistic input online is to a large degree affected by our ...

This presentation examines teachers' conceptions of the skills and competencies, including required language skills, that are important for a teacher in early foreign language teaching. The participants of this study were 44 teachers who were either subject teachers (specialized in the foreign l...

This paper explores the scope for the creative affordances of language classroom activities when deployed as PEPAs (Potentially Exploitable Pedagogical Activities) within an Exploratory Practice enquiry. It is argued that PEPAs might disrupt the routinized use of classroom resources. Engaging practi...

After initially streaming groups who would take content subject in English, the pedagogical team of ‘INS Josep Lladonosa’ decided to prioritise inclusion; they created heterogenous groups and all the them take CLIL subjects. Findings from a questionnaire suggest students with the lowest levels f...

This study investigated K-12 level EFL learners' written development through syntactic and lexical complexity measures in light of two teaching methodologies: CLIL and non-CLIL. The results indicated that despite the higher amount of exposure in the CLIL setting, no significant differences were ...

This presentation focusses on the teacher’s role in the construction of the multilingual identity of culturally and linguistically diverse parents in the context of their children’s school. Preliminary reflections based on qualitative data show the importance of teachers in facilitating parents�...

This presentation reports on the interactional practices within a telecollaborative project between pre-service teachers of English studying in their respective institutions in Israel and Germany. Drawing on Conversation Analysis, we will take a close reading of how students deploy their interaction...

In this session, the presenter discusses the use of OER in supporting L2 writing. The presenter will share how materials are adapted to meet learners’ needs, and the challenges of using open resources for academic success. The presenter will offer tips and resources for beginner adopters of OER.

This study examined the linguistic achievements of children with and without AD(H)D who attended German-English immersion and mainstream programs in German primary schools. Although the AD(H)D children’s performance was affected by their cognitive deficits, intensive exposure to the target languag...

Through qualitative data and a pre- and post-test questionnaire on WTC, emotions, motivational factors and attitudes towards the target language, we investigate how compulsory, yet unbound, informal digital tandem encounters between university students of French and Dutch affect emotional engagement...

This study demonstrates the role of chunking in the realm of second language writing. It presents a novel approach based on the analysis of large amounts of keystroke logging data. The statistics of the multi-word sequences in these texts provide direct evidence for a chunk-based production mechanis...

This study investigates potential inequalities in CLIL programs where students are streamed into two strands based on their L2 proficiency. We compare the distribution of classroom registers, appraisal resources and pedagogical purposes when the same teachers teach the same content in both strands.

Our research investigated how individual differences and text features interact to predict comprehension of health-related texts. We found that younger, more educated, health-literate, and proficient participants were more likely to understand health-related texts than older, low proficiency, less e...

As the Austrian subgroup of the Erasmus+ project ADiBE, we will focus on CLIL realities in secondary schools and how they are experienced by students and teachers. Based on various data-sets, we will report on the challenges and opportunities that CLIL offers for learners of all levels of attainment...

This presentation examines Cognitive Discourse Functions (CDFs) in CLIL students’ written production of academic content in L2 in social science subjects. The data by primary school students in Finland and Spain will be analysed with attention to the frequency of CDFs and to the fluency and comple...

cynicism is a style of presentation of political news in Laisves TV, the main forms of cynicism are through the bullying, making jokes about politicians and their activities in the main message (text), and strengthening of messages through the visuals (memes).

Previous studies revealed that the use of songs can help learners in various linguistic tasks. In our research, we found that the use of a melody helps learners in a foreign language lexical stress discrimination task and that musicians outperform non-musicians in this perception.

The study reports on the implementation of a genre-based writing approach in History education (secondary-school level), detailing the challenges faced by the teacher in relation to differentiation of instruction, assessment demands, and balance between genre and content.

This study explores the role of embodied practices in pursued elicitation sequences. Data was collected in Chilean secondary EFL classrooms. Analysis follows a multimodal CA Approach. It identifies teachers’ gestures, gaze shifts, and manipulation of teaching materials and explanations, repetition...

The contribution summarises the results of my doctoral thesis research about communicative practices (language choice) among adolescents in Austrian Carinthia. I present the findings by referencing Bourdieu's Theory of Practice, which I supplement with established concepts from sociolinguistics, psy...

This discourse-analytical case study focuses on clarification request in experimental social talk between unacquainted people between Japanese and Indian business persons. The analysis focuses on 1) verbal and non-verbal behaviors when the Japanese participants realize their lack of understandings, ...

This talk presents and discusses corpus data of primary school EFL classrooms to explore how language teachers conduct lessons with young learners and how they display Classroom Interactional Competence (cf. Walsh 2006) in and through their teaching practices.

The study investigated longitudinal patterns of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in production and perception of rhotic sounds in young multilinguals. It involved two groups of participants with L1 Polish or German; L2 English and L3 German or Polish, tested three times. The results show non-linear ...

This presentation considers the potential of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to contribute to the equitable provision of high-quality learning in Anglophone contexts by considering why and how the CLIL pedagogical approach might be drawn on to promote multilingual progression in EAL/...

By using this didactic proposal to “teach the plurality” (Molinié, 2015), MOOC participants are expected to consider all forms of alterity, to become more reflective, to learn how to build third spaces, and to play the role of intercultural mediators in their sociolinguistic interactions and so...