Abstracts archive

This study integrated telecollaboration into EFL classes through structured tasks. Research focused on meaning-making and tension-resolution processes in online interactions as revealed by videoconferencing. It examined the degree of intercultural effectiveness achieved by various telecollaborative ...

From 2010-Present, The National, an Emirati English-language newspaper, has published dozens of Education articles, Opinion and Comment pieces, and Letters-to-the-Editor on the ‘debate’ of Arabic versus English as a medium of instruction in its government-sponsored schools and universities. This...

This presentation takes an overview look of language policies in Finnish higher education from the 1990s onwards, from the perspective of the dynamics created by English. Understanding post-nationalist and neo-nationalist language policies is relevant to the larger understanding of the changing role...

This presentation will report and discuss the preliminary findings of a cross-country investigation of English language teaching practices in multilingual classrooms as carried out in five countries. The needs analysis results are meant to inform and sustain forms of ELT continuous professional deve...

This study focuses on how writing strategy use develops during a university English language training program with an expectation to provide language learners and teachers new effective writing strategies, activities, guidance both in class and out of class to enhance students’ English writing pro...

The paper addresses adolescents’ ethnometapragmatic accounts of graphemic features in their everyday texting by investigating underlying ideologies of gender. By drawing on a sample of 48 German text-messaging-chatlogs and 7 semi structured interviews with the same informants, the paper examines t...

This paper provides insight into the writing practices and language attitudes of university staff who are asked to write in Nynorsk in order to ensure the language rights of Nynorsk using students. It investigates if attitudes expressed by staff can explain a lack of commitment to language legislati...

In this conceptual presentation, we argue that translanguaging as a multifaceted lens holds great promises for challenging the underlying monolingual orthodoxy in the field of TESOL. We also provide some empirical evidence to illustrate how translanguaging can be integrated in instruction and assess...

The study aims to establish some tentative principles to develop corpus-based courses by investigating undergraduate students' perception of a corpus-based ESP course. A mixed-methods approach was applied and data from multiple sources were analysed to explore students' autonomous corpus consultatio...

This paper investigates how Japanese participants negotiate food assessments with their language and bodies at a Dairy Taster Brunch. The analysis focuses on 1) What triggers talk about whipped cream? 2) How do participants create, monitor, and accept/resist stances toward whipped cream, a...

Schoolchildren play a crucial role in maximizing the multilingual potential at schools. This presentation discusses the development and implementation of interactive sessions in which schoolchildren engage in discussions about multilingualism and multilingual using data they helped generate. During ...

This presentation considers the contribution made by women to English language teaching and learning in early 20th century America. A corpus-based analysis of five female-authored English teaching manuals published between 1906 and 1915 offers insights into learners’ needs during this period, and ...

The paper’s findings are based on survey research in form of a survey questionnaire and set of semi-structured interviews in companies in Kazakhstan in order to explore how English is important in performing their jobs and to investigate main features, trends and challenges of the use of English i...

This presentation focuses on the relationship between research and practice within English Language Teaching (ELT).  It reports on a project exploring English language teachers' engagement with published research (and research-oriented 'mediating' texts within the field) and their perceptions o...

One of the features of the growing prominence of English across Asia is the proliferation of English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes, including areas where minority languages are used. This presentation will discuss EMI in an area of Thailand where Pattani Malay, rather than Thai, is predominant...

By using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecosystems theory (1979, 1993), this study offers an ecological understanding of the improvements needed in the EFL teaching profession, in which the importance of the contexts is reinforced. Possible solutions to EFL teachers’ negative professional experiences and demo...

This paper examines change-of-shift reports of an emergency medical service unit in a rural hospital in Kazakhstan. These reports are essential for providing decision makers with crucial information about patients, but they also provide opportunities for gossip about members of the local community.

This study sheds light on how minority and majority language students in dual language immersion programs in one U.S. state are developing their biliteracy skills so that their academic needs can best be met and inequities originating from a sole focus on English assessment data can be identified an...

In their recent paper Unpacking the Lore on multilingual scholars publishing in English: a discussion paper, Curry and Lillis (2019) set out a research agenda for those of us who study the publication practices of scholars who use English as a vehicular language. Among the challenges which they sugg...

This study aims to examine and compare English textbooks and high-stakes exams in Turkey. The results revealed a significant mismatch between the two corpora. The study is expected to be informative for textbook writing, exam designing, and curriculum revising.

Brazilians studying content-based English. Objectives: (1) illustrate tasks in EFL/ELF, and (2) point to challenges in professional/intercultural communication. Data suggest EFL/ELF helps learners realize the need to study topics in their overall education. Participants seem to notice that knowledge...

I analyse discourses/practices of a camp offering an immersive English experience to teenagers following Swiss mainstream education. Drawing on an on-going ethnography, I highlight contradictory ideologies with regard to the immersive setting centred around flown-in native speakers and accentuate so...

This research study gives insight into the background factors that develop English language competence in post-soviet Kazakhstan. This research also explores the potential relationship between Russian or Kazakh first language, socio-economic status and access to educational resources in general and ...

This paper investigates how the English subject syllabus at primary level is constructed in relation to other language subjects in the Swedish 2011 (revised 2018) curriculum. Discourse analysis of language syllabi using the concept of voices as linguistic manifestations of ideologies is presented an...

Academic English writing has been considered essential for higher education; however, for the industry, could undergraduate research experiences properly equip students with employability skills? Fifty-six students and 27 professionals participated in this study. The results, from analyzing the surv...

This study examines the potential value of the two portfolios for EFL teachers in Japan. The portfolios are based on the rationale of the CEFR. We argue that they can serve as effective tools for reflective teaching and help maintain pedagogical consistency between primary to secondary-level EFL edu...

We study the discourse employed in a judicial process dealing with women home imprisonment through article 318 of the Law 3689/41 of the Brazilian Code of Criminal Procedure. We present, in an ethnometodological perspective of the text, how entextualization is linked to the co-production of texts, t...

Many multilingual groups and professional teams tend to be too fleeting or unstable to be considered Communities of Practice. This presentation puts the spotlight on interactions in which professionals from diverse L1 backgrounds meet for the first time (T0). It focuses on methodological implication...

We present an analysis of the construction of the cognitive discourse function evaluate in a longitudinal corpus of student writing in L1 Spanish and L2 English in subject history from Grade 6 through Grade 10. Results show an evolving inclusion of historical data to back up evaluations across langu...

We study metadiscourse in research articles by merging pragmatically motivated move analysis and linguistically motivated concept-matching analysis. We show that the two approaches are mutually informative, and that functional metalanguage can be characterized and automatically detected using an und...