Abstracts archive

This empirical study examined the effects of concept mapping and summarization on learners’ comprehension monitoring and metacognitive accuracy skills in L2 reading. The obtained results revealed a significant positive effect of these instructional strategies on the outcome measures of comprehensi...

This presentation explores student language teachers' conceptualizations of language and language teaching as they surface in the introductory course "An appetite for language" in a specialized language teacher profile as part of the teacher education programme in a university college in Denmark. Th...

Researchers who conduct qualitative research on genre-based pedagogies for scholarly writing may experience different problems during data collection and analysis. In this presentation, using my research experiences as examples, I will share my challenges and how I deal with them.

Technology-enhanced language learning (TELL) is changing the way students learn and the way educators teach. However, much work is still needed in this area, specifically providing educators an opportunity to develop techno-pedagogical knowledge through professional development. This presentation wi...

This paper illuminates the construction of new social and linguistic orders in multilingual primary schools in Cape Town. It suggests that these emerging ideologies of postracial solidarity can be seen as examples of Fanon’s (1968) postcolonial cosmopolitanism ‘from below’, one that creates ne...

Since independence, disputes over the curriculum have tended to take on a politicised and ideological dimension that goes well beyond pedagogical and technical issues. This presentation will revisit the concept of indigenous language" by comparing the ideological positioning of a number of Malaysian...

Using multimodal conversation analysis, this study describes the interactional organization of task enhanced collaborative writing on Google Docs via Skype. The findings bring insights into the complex ecology of geographically dispersed participants’ video-mediated interactions in an L2 and contr...

From an interactional perspective, we provide a fine-grained qualitative analysis of Data-Driven Learning interactions between French as Foreign Language students and trainers, during the exploration of the FLEURON database. Conversational and multimodal resources play a pivotal role in the selectio...

This collaborative case study examines the development of critical reflexivity (Gay & Kirkland, 2003) of pre-service EL (English Learner) teachers’ identities as a basis for anti-oppression pedagogy in TESOL. Our conceptual framework draws from anti-oppressive education (Kumashiro, 2000, 2002,...

This paper explores environments which merge personal and institutionalized learning spaces by allowing teenage learners to take control, bring in their identity, and individual repertoire of skills. Empirical data offers insights into learners’ perceptions on optimal conditions for learning, and ...

We conceptualise WeChat as a virtual translanguaging space within which individuals creatively and flexibly draw on multimodal and multilingual meaning-making resources to construct their heterogeneous and selective identities.

Language assessment literacy (LAL) has been conceptualized in different ways in the research literature. This study has used a qualitative research design to explore how teacher trainers and teachers in Norway understand the construct. The results have important implications for the way the field co...

In this talk, we report on a classroom-based research that investigated pre-service language teachers' transformation from reflections and actions on empathy and autonomy. We present data generated from teaching diaries and discuss implications for language teacher education. 

In this contribution, I aim to trace back the genesis of current scientific controversies on CLIL by analysing the ideological context of birth of CLIL research. To do so, I analyse a key document authored by the founding father of CLIL (i.e. the Marsh 2002 Report). Thereby I shed light on how the i...

This paper presents a linguistic ethnographic study drawing on data from observations, interviews, and audio-recordings of naturally occurring conversations across the Japanese, Turkish and English languages in a multilingual workplace. It focuses on the construction of expat workplace identities of...

Life competencies stand indispensable for the educated segment of any nation to guarantee its progress in the times to come. In ELT, our role, as well as our domain, expands a great deal. We are entrusted with not only teaching the language but also training our students on ways to develop their abi...

We describe the procedural unfolding of the telecollaborative tasks by analyzing (i) pre-service teachers' collaborative design meetings (ii) written design reports; (iii) peer and mentor evaluation of these design ideas in whole-class feedback sessions in teacher training classrooms; (iv) written r...

This corpus-driven approach tries to raise the students’ consciousness of learning English vocabulary innovatively with the RIPE model: resource-providing, information-inputting, paradigm-setting and evaluation-enhancing. The application of RIPE model is encouraging in the way that this method has...

This study aims to ascertain to what extent racial stereotyping of footballers in the English game exists in mainstream online media reports. Using a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, the researchers explore a corpus of UK online football reports, comparing results with research by McCarthy and ...

This study demonstrates the attempt to create an assessment tool for global citizenship with its pilot results. The finalized rubric reflects the voices of over 300 workers who are considered internationally successful in various sectors, while the assessment tool was piloted with both university st...

This paper investigates the uses and conceptualizations of English as a lingua franca in a globalizing start-up company. By following a key participant’s work practices on site and online, this paper shows tensions that emerge between authenticity, formality and practicality in the use of English ...

This presentation reports the partial results of a Master's study which applied a needs analysis to establish the target communicative situations of adult immigrant learners of Brazilian Portuguese as a Host Language, which lasted for about five months and comprised classroom observation, interview ...

Action research by language teachers at a New Zealand polytechnic aims at promoting collaborative autonomous language learning among students who learn Māori and those who learn Japanese language. This presentation will report preliminary findings focusing on the learners of Japanese who engaged in...

How is science-based expertise communicated in times of science denialism and competing voices of experts-by-experience? In my presentation, I introduce different discursive resources and rhetorical strategies that are used to construct authorial voice and expertise and interaction with reader in po...

This paper describes the CoBLaLT model, a validated methodological proposal for the reciprocal learning and teaching of neighbour languages in mainstream lower secondary schools settled in border regions. A set of already developed didactic tools will be presented as far as current and further scien...

This paper focuses on accommodation in English as a lingua franca with a special emphasis on convergence. Based on the VOICE corpus, it is demonstrated that even forms which diverge from native-speaker standards can represent a basis for convergence and contribute to successful ELF communication.

This is a research on whether the Coordination of linguistic subsystems as sign of automatization with a CDST perspective.

In the context of an internationalized multilingual and multicultural undergraduate classroom with full EMI in Catalonia, this mixed methods study focuses on the interaction between students' (a) self-adscription to either localist or cosmopolitan identities, (b) development of intercultural sensiti...

This presentation reports on two cases of university English textbooks from authentic materials in Japan. One is a pharmacy textbook as an ESP course book, and the other is an in-house textbook for STEM students, both of which were shown to be effective and motivating for students.

This presentation deals with the connection between a neurological network of the human brain, the default mode network, and creativity. It gives a critical view of existing findings and draws conclusions for educational practices in order to illustrate means of including instead of excluding studen...