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This presentation describes an art-based intervention between preservice teachers and Yazidi refugees which examines the way that visual arts and dance aided teachers in disrupting stereotypes of migrant/refugee students while providing a space to explore the complex relationships that bind communit...

This work presents qualitative longitudinal research in the Applied Linguistics area. It was examined the curricular innovation proposal impact and benefits, titled 'Creative Writing to develop literacy competence', in an undergraduate course for English teachers in Brazil. The data were generated f...

This paper will discuss how applied linguistics can be a more responsible field by implementing critical language and critical thinking development utilizing the extended affordances of technology. It illustrates how this can be taught and researched with linguistic analysis of social media postings...

This presentation examines the differential consequences of two language tests, one national and the other international in the Israeli ecological assessment system. It focuses on the nationalist political agendas the tests serve which are often in contradiction with educational interests, calling f...

The present study explored the critical thinking skills exemplified in the English public speaking course of science and engineering college students. A qualitative analysis of their English speeches revealed two categories of problems: external and internal ones. Teaching methods corresponding to e...

This study is a sequel to the concept paper in the same symposium, Languaging and translanguaging as co-adaptive relational dynamics for language education. This empirical investigation examines how language learners can gain the four linguistical skills holistically by playing a mixed reality game ...

Chinese resultatives are one of the most challenging types of constructions for L2 Chinese learners and DDL has not been applied to Chinese language learning. This study, therefore, focuses on investigating the effect of corpus use in learning Chinese resultatives by learners of Chinese.

Using big data from examination results, we studied the impact of L1 to additional language (Ln) Dutch similarity measures on examination scores. Our conclusion is (1) that less L1-Ln language similarities return a higher complex Ln learning task, and (2) that similarity measures for different langu...

Using critical EAP, the present study sought to elucidate vocational English course design with the active participation of all the stakeholders (n=56) with a focus on content-and-language-integrated-learning (CLIL). This course has been designed for the undergraduate nursing students in light of cr...

This study examines how and in what ways an instructor (re)design curriculum in order to create learning opportunities for students to develop their repertoire of academic literacies to engage appropriately in an interdisciplinary curriculum. Findings provided insights into the practices, processes ...

This paper focuses on the theoretical affordances of research in applied linguistics which engages with the creative arts. We consider work across three categories: research with the arts; research into the arts and research through the arts. We set out what we see as the future possibilities for th...

Based on tracing interviews with multi-lingual thesis writers and their academic readers, this study considers the complex role creativity has in doctoral writing and how doctoral writers emerge – or may fail to emerge – as creative academic writers. It also examines how this identity influences...

This work presents university students´ decolonial authorship to disrupt the authority of cultural-social practices related to gender. The research draws on critical and decolonial perspectives, qualitative and intersubjective methodology. The procedures included interviews and students´ productio...

This talk addresses some hot topics: What are the skills needed for the 21st century and beyond? What is the role of critical thinking among those essential skills? How can ELT educators help students fully utilize critical thinking in learning and real-life applications? She’ll share research-bas...

We report on cross-linguistic influence on ERP indices of online L2 processing of fine-grained placement verb semantics, looking at L2 users whose L1 does (German) or does not (English) share semantic structure with the L2 (Swedish). In contrast to previous ERP findings, CLI effects are detected.

The article records stances, attitudes and preferences as discussed in an online-community of foreign language teachers in Greece. It investigates, how the written discourse of FL teachers reflects the relations of languages with higher/lower status and how this influences the agency of language tea...

This presentation discusses the development of a UK manifesto for decolonising language teaching developed with colleagues from 12 British Universities on behalf of the Association of University Language Communities in the UK and Ireland (AULC). Informed by intercultural citizenship theory, I reasse...

This case study investigates ethnolinguistic vitality among fourth-generation Japanese-Brazilians. Takashi and Keiko (pseudonyms) were both invited to speak at a weekly online forum open to those interested in learning about the realities of ethnolinguistic vitality among South American Nikkei. Thei...

The researcher presents the results of an interview study with expert teachers on inclusive EFL classrooms as well as first results from a case study. After a brief overview of the strategies, which experts generally perceived as successful in inclusive English lessons, the researcher discusses the ...

This paper describes the creation of two reading tasks which are aimed at teaching low-frequency words to advanced second language learners. The kinds of modifications made to the source text, other task components accompanying the texts and what is expected of learners to complete the tasks are ela...

Based on the four processes of the pedagogy of multiliteracies and the combination of linguistic, literary and visual features, this paper presents a multimodal approach that aims to equip pre-service teachers with a model to guide young students to produce meaning and elaborate knowledge through ar...

A presentation discussing the development process of a postgraduate course for Portuguese as an Additional Language teachers at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul which was informed by Critical Pedagogy and Intercultural Pedagogy rather than the traditional pedagogies shaping th...

This study presents the process as well as the benefits and challenges of implementing critical literacy into the Korean EFL classroom. It challenges prevailing assumptions about lack of critical thinking skills among Asian EFL students due to their low English proficiency levels and cultural backgr...

This study compares 31 Chinese university students' critical thinking (CT) performance based on their articles written in English and Chinese respectively to examine the similarities and differences in students' CT performance when writing in two different languages and to explore the roles of the t...

This study investigates the effect of cross-linguistic similarity on the production of verb morphology in L2 French. The study involves four source languages (Flemish, German, Italian and Swedish). We discuss the relative impact of cross-linguistic similarity in relation to other factors, such as pr...

We would like to present a comparative overview of the actual German federal states curricular guidelines for classes with the primary aim of teaching German as a second language (GSL) in regular schools in Germany. The focus is on the following fields i) the integration of the respective curricular...

This presentation considers teachers’ discourses surrounding different languages at an immersion school including teachers’ and pupils’ use of the dominant language and children’s other home languages during the different designated times; the teachers’ roles concerning school language pol...

Textual competence (Purpura, 2004; Bachman & Palmer, 1996, 2010) is an indispensable component of the organizational competence verified by various research studies in language communication. This presentation reports how data were collected to validate the usefulness of the textual competence descr...

Through a literature review and with a practical example from a language center in Brazil, this paper addresses how teachers/practitioners can make informed decisions to write or select their own indicators for placement testing and, therefore, monitor the progress of their students and/or the succe...

In this paper, we report on the implementation of a web-based multilingual learning tool. The innovation of this tool resides in its ability to deliver academic content in different languages. By giving students the option to choose between home and school languages it makes academic content accessi...