Abstracts archive

I will undertake a contrastive analysis of the use, semantics and framing of lexemes in English and in German referring to ´disability´ within DM (Twitter) with methods of DA. This study is corpus-assisted as I will examine n-grams and collocations recurrently appearing in the context of ´disabil...

Conversations between peers are among the resources learners use to make sense of cultural practices and values. Through an analysis of two pairs discussing Japanese manga on intercultural encounters we look at the ways in which peer mediation affects Japanese learners' understandings and the potent...

This study presents how a multi-dimensional EFL writing score report is generated for college EFL learners by using cognitive diagnostic approach. The effectiveness of the report is also verified by conducting a three-month quasi-experiment. The results are accurate, reliable and effective and signi...

The paper presents the findings of a case study in which 8 undergraduate students of Italian as FL have been engaged in creating a multimodal composition after being exposed to a literary text. The paper examines how the practice promoted reflective writing and encouraged expressive use of the FL.

The goal of the project CIPSY is to study the interactional competence of the nurse in adult psychiatric service. It responds to an external request from an psychiatric hospital in Lyon, that expressed the need for an experimental research, considering that the patient-caregiver relationship, as wel...

Blending language learning strategy (LLS) instruction and gamification might contribute to the progression from other-regulated to self-regulated strategic learning. Exploratory results from primary students' use of L2 reading comprehension strategies in Spain contribute to the scarce research on LL...

This presentation draws examples from a sports context to illustrate the importance of multimodality in social media research.

The language of Brazilian immigration policy is based upon a globalized terminology, straddled between control and immigrant or refugee insertion. This language constructs an institutional habitus and is geared strategically and discursively to historical and contemporary contexts (Anderson, 1989) i...

Digi+ is a Dutch-German Computer-Based Learning Environment (CBLE), using the principles of Content and Language Integrated Learning in primary education as a part of the regular curriculum. We will answer research questions on German pupils’ attitudes towards their neighbour language Dutch and on...

This paper reports on the perceptions and practices of subject teachers and teacher educators across the UK about how they meet the language and literacy needs of students learning EAL. Findings and recommendations provide insights into the input and approaches that are needed across teacher educati...

This presentation discusses (career) opportunities and challenges of new subjectivities which have been made available to language teachers within their Twitter-based professional development as part of the symposium on trajectories and perspectives of language teachers in the 21st century.

This presentation aims to study the progression of autonomy in becoming a (creative) writer through instructed immersion. The elements of autonomy are identified and presented as potential seeds for developing / improving teaching methods of Creative Writing

This presentation describes extensive reading and extensive listening/viewing activities in Japanese language courses at a United States university. The presenter will discuss the significance of various inputs in language courses, and how they can elicit learners’ autonomous learning.

This paper presents the project “From monologues to dialogues”, a collaboration between teachers and researchers. The project addresses the parallel interaction which often characterises pupil-pupil conversation in the language classroom by exploring task design and “good” interaction. The p...

This presentation will focus on examining "what happens when speakers come from a space where they are familiar with the social rules and the language practices, and enter a space where this is not the case ?" (Busch 2015). The talk will focus on a student mobility from Canada to the United States a...

Gatekeepers have the power to open or close doors for people, seeking access to the labor market, higher education, etc. Language attitude research shows that humans are quick to judge a person based on the way she/he speaks. It is therefore highly relevant to promote sociolinguistic awareness-raisi...

This presentation uses CA to analyze two styles of test prompt for a paired EFL speaking test. The analysis suggests that the wording of the prompt can influence the test-takers' turn-taking and topic development, leading to differing assessments of their interactional competence.

Drawing from L2 Spanish writing classes, this study explores the impact of genres in L2 writing skill development as the central goal for composition courses – arguing that such an approach best serves L2 Spanish learners and contributes to the integration of their L2 linguistic knowledge in their...

Drawing on an observation of an antenatal consultation with a trafficked woman, this presentation explores the range of face-saving strategies (Goffman, 1972) employed by the patient's consultant and her interpreter, as they seek to navigate the series of events which have led to this visit.

With a commitment to the use of literary works as oppositional practice in Teacher Education, I present a self-study in-progress. The study capitalizes on students’ shared / background knowledge of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series to demonstrate principles of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in...

This presentation focuses on examining multilinguals’ practices in French immersion programs and how youth from various backgrounds negotiate their linguistic and cultural resources, even in a space which was originally intended for something else. Data come from sociolinguistic and ethnographic s...

Situated in a CALL course in a TESOL master’s program in Canada, this mixed-methods study explores how pre-service ESL teachers’ experiences with a chatbot impacted their perceptions of the chatbot as a language learning tool and their design of chatbot-based teaching activities.

This paper will discuss how (national) values are by law incorporated into the process of integration and the conception of language teaching material in Austria. Further, consequences for the positioning of migrants will be discussed.

This longitudinal study keeps track on five novice elementary school teachers who received a yearlong preservice teacher preparation program and reveal how they try to “apply the teaching methods they were trained to use” (Farrell, 2021, p. 447) in their school contexts.

We report on affordances and challenges arising during the preparation and administration of a joint research instrument in a multinational project involving data collection in six European education systems. Linguistic and cultural-systemic translation adds new levels of challenge to the operationa...

Gemma Harasim played a significant role in the international cultural contest in the first half of the twentieth century. She developed an innovative method for teaching Italian Language. She experienced it in Fiume/Rijeka, under the Hungarian Crown, in a multi-ethnic context at a politically crucia...

This paper focuses on text analytical tools to conduct a close analysis of disciplinary literacy, textual features, discourses, and genre for text production and meaning- making in early years writing.

This talk presents results from a study analyzing gestures co-occurring with the discourse marker “entonces” (then) in a corpus of 24 narrations from native and non-native speakers of Spanish. “Entonces” often indicates a temporal sequential nexus. However, it has a number of other pragmatic...

This study investigates the receptive and productive English L2 grammatical knowledge of nine German L1 children during their time in a bilingual German-English kindergarten. The results provide insights into the learners’ syntactic and morphological knowledge of English and possible implications ...

This paper looks at digital language practices in four Norwegian-Senegalese families. Collected interactions and interview data as well as focus group data is analysed to discuss the children’s agency regarding language choice in communication with extended family members in relation to the parent...