Abstracts archive

Based on conversation analysis, this paper explores how participants in multilingual hospital settings, with interpreting provided via video-technology, organize their interactional space. The presentation demonstrates how the participants orient to the interpreters’ rights and obligations in inte...

Drawing on CA, this study examines roleplay interaction video-recorded between expert and novice speakers of English at an experience-oriented English-education facility. It focus on instances in which the expert orients to competence by "feigning" a next-turn display of misunderstanding to implicit...

ELF is the working language of multinational crisis management. In this professional context, successful communication is a prerequisite. The use of some other language potentially hinders shared situation awareness. We analyse four practices by which practitioners switch back to English and thereby...

This study examines the relationship among cognitive resources, writing processes, and written products in second language writing. Findings indicate interactions between cognitive resources (attention and literacy-related resources) and writing processes (pausing behavior) when producing better ess...

We investigate how collaborative journalism alters the news production process by “following the story” of a citizen science project on air quality set up by a newspaper, university and government agency. Combining linguistic ethnographic analysis and discourse analysis gives a dynamic view of t...

This presentation presents the findings of two studies on literature in language education and examines where representations of literature in textbooks and meanings associated with literature by textbook authors and teachers meet, and considers the kinds of norms and values that are transmitted thr...

Meaning co-construction through Communication Strategies (CSs) is an integral part of BELF; their inclusion in business ELT materials and teaching practices can foster the development of skills for international/intercultural business contexts. This presentation explores how CSs can be integrated in...

in this presentation, I share findings from a participatory ethnography project that explores community-based and plurilingual  practices with explicit focus on fostering agency and engagement of plurilingual students and their parents.

Multilinguals' early languages are often associated with emotional expression and inner speech, although later languages can acquire emotional depth (Dewaele, 2013; Dewaele, 2015). This paper explores to what extent psychotherapy clients who used LX as the main therapy language report that this matc...

In this presentation we will claim that teaching sign language to everyone is not a solution for a small linguistic community. Instead we propose a different approach for Icelandic Sign Language, an Icelandic Sign Language based school in the spirit of indigenous languages.

This case study analyzed four ninth-grade EFL classes at a junior high school in Japan to identify classroom discourse features that are effective in cognitively engaging learners in the process of meaning making as well as to explore how a community of practice is co-created through teacher-learner...

This presentation aims at discussing the preliminary findings of an ongoing Interreg-project involving NGOs and academics, aiming at an increased labour market flexibility between Sweden and Denmark. Results from questionnaires and focus group interviews will be presented. Focus is on language compe...

This study explores how students' self-regulation, operationalized as self-assessment ability, and L2 writing develop over one semester. 11 students were asked to compose and self-assess 10 essays during an Academic Writing programme. The self-assessment scores were compared to teacher assessmen...

This presentation describes action research (AR) involving English teachers in Sweden working with a university researcher to problematize notetaking instruction and describes two simultaneous AR cycles: one involving the teachers and their students in their classrooms, and another involving the res...

Initial results achieved by the Scol Multilingual Program on the Caribbean island of Aruba show how replacing a colonial understanding of immersion by a postcolonial one based on plurilingualism and translanguaging can result in higher skill levels in both home and colonial languages, and in areas s...

This paper is a reflective case-study, describing how a combination of theoretical and practical issues can contribute to public service interpreter training and to the professionalization of interpreting.

The paper explores practices of multilingual text production in a Nordic university which has a trilingual language policy. We focus on an online genre of student communications, the degree programme curriculum. The paper contributes to the analysis of multilingual universities from perspectives whi...

In this presentation, we compare studies on EMI policies and practices across three different Gulf states—the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. After providing a brief overview of the development of EMI educational language policies within each setting

The presented empirical study focuses on 127 first graders taking part in the new Bilingual Program (French/German) in Primary Schools in Bavaria. The research interest lies on the level of competence in French, German and mathematics as well as on the intersectionality axes gender, multilingualism ...

Understanding advising from the perspective of the complexity theory means to look at the dynamic interaction between advisors and learners as influenced by both internal, individual factors, and external factors, which may hinder or enhance change in the advisor-advisee relationship, in the learnin...

This paper investigates teaching-involved learning in terms of its basic interactional--that is its interaffective, interembodied, and multimodal/multisemiotic character. Drawing on sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, social semiotics, and conversation analysis, we examined data through m...

This study describes how two 18-year-old learners use L1 (Swedish) and L2 (English) in oral interaction when playing League of Legends. Gameplay recordings were analyzed focusing on frequency and pronunciation of code-switched vocabulary (CSV), and types of talk. Results revealed extensive use of CS...

Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment (CDA) distinguishes itself with finer-grained attributes such as knowledge structures and processing skills underlying learners' responses. Dynamic Assessment (DA) can integrate assessment and mediation into one unified activity, making it possible to track how learne...

In this paper, we discuss major collaborative efforts in developing blended, online Hindi materials as part of the Mellon-funded MSU LCTL initiative.  We address challenges and best practices, a sustainable future for LCTL instruction and materials development in higher education, particularly ...

This contribution draws upon an exploratory project which combined philosophical dialogue in groups with biographical research to investigate Spracherleben of people involved in a grassroots organization engaged in the context of immigration in Austria. Based on the insights gained, it elaborates on...

We examine if genre pedagogy fosters uncritical compliance with genre conventions. Thirty doctoral students in STEM reported genre manipulation in research writing, critiquing and intentionally deploying authorial choices in response to diverse audiences and exigencies, even bending the genre. Genre...

Contemporary policing in migrant-receiving countries often involves navigating complex interactions in which multiple languages and cultures are present, requiring specific communicative expertise on the part of police to ensure effective communication and the safety of all involved.

Understanding motivation and satisfaction levels of home and international EMI students students may help understand globally growing EMI phenomenon. With these implications in mind, this study aimed to examine the motivation and satisfaction levels of international and home students in the EMI cont...

Considering both the methods and models of classroom interactive competence (CIC) in teacher professionalization, this presentation will first identify the affordances of multi-perspective videography before examining how digitally-mediated CIC is enacted in inclusive EFL classes in German secondary...

This presentation explores L1/L2 complexity research from the Darwinian perspective of Language as a Complex Adaptive System, in an attempt to tease apart inherent variance in language production (at a given point in time) and variance resulting from attaining higher levels of language proficiency (...