Abstracts archive

This presentation reports on an experimental study designed to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of a direct and an indirect approach to data-driven learning in facilitating Chinese learners’ mastery of hedging in an undergraduate English-as-a-foreign-language writing class.

In this collaborative study we explored the nature of discourses of writing employed in Swedish compulsory school years 4–6, drawing on observation evidence collected by teacher education students. There are benefits as well as constraints in collaborative research of this kind, and these will be ...

L2 Directed Motivational Currents (L2 DMCs) are defined as unique, stable and long-term periods of intense motivation among L2 learners. This paper will describe the results of a study that considers psycho-emotional factors that might contribute to disrupting or inhibiting L2 DMCs among language le...

This talk illustrates how the ADiBE Focus-Group Interview Protocol made it possible to easily gather qualitative appraisals from more than 90 Italian high school students regarding their bilingual experience in an otherwise very monolingual social reality.  Students' voices not only called...

Language driven leisure activities aid language acquisition in general, but do certain such activities promote more specific language registers, such as English for academic purposes? Using quantitative analyses, the paper investigates the relationship between upper secondary students' (N≈800) rec...

This longitudinal study explores regressive phonological cross-lingustic influence in 14 multilingual speakers (7adolescents and 7 adults) by examining VOT in their L1, L2, and L3 throughout the first year of L3 learning. For the adolescent group, significant changes to both their L1 and L2 over tim...

The assessment of L2 writing often contains a strong focus on linguistic dimensions. The current study investigates the organizational performance in advanced L2 Chinese argumentative essays using a variety of discourse measures and compares their predictive power for human ratings with linguistic a...

The study investigated the impact of L1 use in tasks where an intermediate level of university students (n = 76) can engage in at higher cognitive level on L2 language development. Among lexical diversity, plainness of English, errors, and interpersonal discoursmarkers, the students used English onl...

This paper aims to examine how language both enables and prevents the practice of solidarity and the pursuit of projects of change and hope in spaces of otherwise. An ethnographic account is produced to unpack the contradictions between their racializing discourse and radical agenda, power dynamics ...

This case study analyzes the developmental trajectories of two L2 learners through dynamic assessment (DA) of academic writing. The study investigates how DA yielded a diagnosis of learner emerging writing abilities, how this diagnosis informed an instructional enrichment program, and the effectiven...

The presenter reports a case study on voice development in written coursework completed by two multilingual doctoral students in interdisciplinary programs at a U.S. university. The findings suggest that, although understudied, lower-stakes writing tasks provide important early-stage opportunities f...

Following Lillis and Curry (2010), this multiple case study aims to shed light into telling publication practices in English. Target participants were Turkish medical specialists, post-graduate medical students and undergraduate medical students (n=6). Text-oriented ethnography methodology provided ...

This paper analyses nine years of anonymized student and lecturer records and backgrounds to find that while English-Medium generally outperforms L1 instruction, excellence is rarer due to linguistic factors. Such negative effect is lessened in cases where lecturers promote active learning and show ...

Since the late 1990s, educational models that integrate language and content objectives have received much acclaim. The paper presents results of a large-scale systematic review on the effectiveness of such models in classrooms at primary and secondary school level.

The present study investigates whether L2 English is improved in a study abroad context where the language is used as a lingua franca. It examines whether this context can lead to positive changes in participants’ L2 reading, vocabulary and general proficiency. Results are positive regarding vocab...

Doctoral students and supervisors in the sciences commonly co-author and publish research articles which then form the bulk of the students’ thesis. Drawing on a multiple-case study (environmental sciences, neurosciences and computational chemistry), this presentation describes the shifting roles ...

This study explores the value of extensive watching of original version TV series on the learning of L2 grammar constructions. We also discuss the effects of caption use (captions, textually enhanced captions, no captions), and input-related factors (frequency, recency, and construction type). We pr...

Food genres such as recipes increasingly contain “no-X constructions” like “no fat” or “sugar free”. This paper will analyse the comment sections of vegan food blogs with regard to such “ex-gredients” focusing on the question how taste is constructed and used as a resource in technol...

This paper intervenes in the discussion about the relationship between discrimination and racism in México. Moita- Lopes and Baynham (2017: vi) say that the great navigations of the 15th and 16th century give birth to the beginning of globalization and that these discourses are based on the prefigu...

This paper reports on a linguistic ethnographic study focusing on a multilingual Italian-Turkish couple living in Istanbul. By examining naturally occurring conversations across the Italian, Turkish, and English languages, the paper examines how the participants' language repertoires are shaped by t...

Experimenting with an ecological approach to Pluriliteracies Teaching for Deeper Learning, this innovative, longitudinal study charts how a language teacher radically shifted ways of working with middle school learners of French – including beginners – to develop academic literacies across langu...

This interview-based study investigates the ways in which various discursive processes within and about Swedish Higher Education (HE) are rendering some value-laden linguistic practices invisible. Focussing on language ideologies, the study demonstrates the affordances of taking a multilingual appro...

The distance teaching is aimed to provide Finnish sign language teaching to pupils whose mother tongue is sign language and there is no qualified teacher available in local municipality. In our experience and according to feedback, this form of study is a good alternative when contact teaching is no...

The current survey focused on L2 researchers in the research-pedagogy dialogue. The survey (N = 184) showed that most researchers had L2 teaching experiences, which predicted a favorable view of the dialogue. However, in general, lack of time and institutional rewards prevented researchers from enga...

The scarce CLIL textbook content analyses available (e.g. Banegas, 2014; Carrasco & Criado, 2019) have not examined all Coyle's (1999) 4 Cs: Content, Communication, Cognition and Culture. This study examines to what degree CLIL Natural Science textbooks used in Spanish Primary Education adhere t...

In this communication, we present examples of our ethnographic research in Catalan out-of-school programs. By documenting plurilingual/pluriliteracy practices involving immigrant background students, their families and local agents, we highlight the potential of those settings that focus on plurilin...

The question of which type(s) of learning would best characterize the cognitive processes at play in an informal second language learning (ISLL) context has not yet been thoroughly explored. This talk provides an overview of four different types of learning (explicit, implicit, incidental and intent...

This study aims to contribute to our understanding of academic lectures delivered in the context of English as lingua franca through an investigation of one of the most frequently used discourse markers – okay, in English mediated academic lectures delivered by native Chinese professors, compared ...

We describe a dynamic approach to the study of written texts for publication we have been developing for 20 years: text histories and trajectories. History indexes the importance of paying attention to texts, people, places, moments in time; trajectory indexes the importance of paying attention to p...

The longitudinal obseration, from the perspective of Dynamic Systems Theory entails challenge to the generally-held “plateau phenomenon”. Via the five indices in lexical richness, there exist the sequential attractor states and repellor states in the development process. The dynamic characterist...