Abstracts archive

In this paper I investigate the metalanguage of students and teachers in high school concerning students with working class backgrounds and their academic language skills and discuss how the situated metalinguistic practices relates to broader discourses about the 'high school extraneous' students.

This paper focuses on historical research methods in language-policy analysis. While history in general has not been central to the field, Foucault’s notion of genealogy has inspired a growing number of language-policy studies. This paper discusses three key questions that genealogy poses for lang...

Disability is seldom researched as an influential individual difference in second language acquisition of school-aged children. This presentation draws upon a recent ethnographic study to document how the disabilities of English learners are linked to limited opportunities for second language learni...

We examine the contribution of instructional context on reading and writing self-concepts of monolingual and multilingual children. Results yielded no differences in self-concepts nor reading measures, but in spelling with monolinguals outperforming multilinguals, and positive correlations between s...

Deaf students’ major challenge in reading English in Israel is their inadequate syntactic knowledge. Our method is based on the three basic building blocks of a clause – noun, verb and prepositional phrases. Using visual and interactive means, students learn to recognize, manipulate, and, ultima...

The presentation introduces a large-scale research amongst teacher training centres in Hungary revealing the best practices of the ICT-competences, reflective thinking and institutional support of the educators. The gist of this study is to reveal the basic characteristics of ICT-driven higher educa...

This paper investigates how fourteen fluency features interact with one another in the interlanguage of learners of English as compared to native speakers to form so-called fluency dimensions. The study is based on the time-aligned and annotated version of the French component of the Louvain Interna...

The talk is concerned with re-narrations of fatal illnesses by bereaved loved ones based on extracts from online memorial sites.

The study of linguistic immersion in an endangered language spoken in the southern part of France, Occitan, sheds light on the perceptions of this practice by learners and outsiders. The view of the importance of immersion is linked to the situation of the community and reflects the evolution of ide...

This study investigates the effects of a CLIL-based literary pedagogy on intercultural competence and language proficiency of 239 students in FLT. Three interventions carried out in two consecutive school years in the upper forms of Dutch secondary schools showed positive effects on intercultural co...

This paper outlines a nationally funded research project which examines the competences needed by language educators in Higher Education contexts. We provide background on the currently available frameworks and demonstrate how a context-specific profile of competences is crucial for languages in the...

As a case study, this presentation introduces Project LEILU – "Learning to be in the new environment – a holistic approach for youngsters in Luxembourg", which aimed to propose an alternative way of learning, development, and participation of young (forced) migrants by offering six modules of in...

Microgenetic analysis of L2 learners’ mediated performance and post-class teacher reflections show that DA, especially a cumulative model of group DA, can work in whole group settings and facilitate learner development, as evidenced in positive changes in their language awareness and/or control.

The focus of this paper is multilingual staff's beliefs guiding their pedagogical choices as they relate to traditional ideologies of multilingualism and multilingual education in adult basic education in Norway, sometimes challenging entrenched ideologies and at other times reinforcing them when te...

We investigated the presence of foreign language speaking anxiety in Indonesian learners of English. We also tested whether learners have positive evaluations of web-based programs equipped with Automatic Speech Recognition and whether these web-based programs might help reduce speaking anxiety, and...

This presentation will outline qualitative research undertaken to gather images and information about the “ideal” language teacher in the 21st Century. Data was collected in eight countries across Europe and beyond, engaging more than 30 experienced language teachers.

The longitudinal multiple case study investigates the teaching lives of six English teachers respectively in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, focusing on how these teachers perceive affordances and constraints in their teaching and how they respond to the perceived affordances and constraints, in the time of...

Metalanguage serves as an analytic lens for examining student teacher identity development in relation to a specific discursive context of language teacher education: microteaching sessions and feedback. I show how the invitation to talk about their microteaching sessions created space for student t...

Longitudinal studies of twelve second/foreign English, French, and Arabic classrooms across proficiencies and methodologies contrasted immersive (L2-only) versus non-immersive pedagogies. Comparisons of assignment scores revealed little/no differences, suggesting a limited impact of classroom langua...

This presentation reports on a recent study that investigated the implementation of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in an EFL school setting in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), focusing specifically on how teachers focus on form (FonF) in this TBLT-based setting in their teaching practice.

The presentation draws from an ongoing research project, ‘Historicising Humanities at Makerere University since 1922’, which seeks to rethink and reshape the role of humanities in Uganda.

Corpus-based study of China's image media linguistics and foreign policy making

Research on ambiguous idioms has mainly explored L1 processing. The effect of sense-specific frequency has not yet been examined in L1 or L2. This two-experiment study investigates how L1 speakers process duplex collocations (Experiment 1) and how L2 learners acquire them (Experiment 2), w...

Deaf children in Norway have had rights to sign-bilingual education since 1998, but a proper education for sign language teachers has been missing. The presentation describes the steps Oslo Metropolitan University is taking towards building sign language teacher education programs and a professional...

This study draws on multivariate techniques, applying them to critical discourse analysis questions to perform a multi-modal analysis of fifty listeners’ calls from The Savage Nation. The analysis reveals that the host uses a pseudo-interactional frame through which he construes minority groups as...

Though low literate asylum seekers face considerate challenges during their reception and integration, concrete information on this issue is scare. Through our mixed-method study we gained insights into the extent, nature and impact of low literacy among adult asylum seekers, while developing an ass...

This presentation unveils tensions between academic monolingualism and multilingualism. By analysing policy documents and survey comments, I identify three dominant discourses: “epistemic monolingualism”, “(wishful) academic multilingualism”, and “deficient multilingualism”. Major Europe...

This presentation examines three ways that nation-state-based linguistic ideology was subverted at an English-medium program in Japan through: recognizing "immersion effect" (othering by labeling an experience "immersion"); evading "language effect" (viewing language as a discrete unit); and allowin...

This presentation will report on the impact of transversal aspects of language and culture on the online international collaborative design and implementation phases of a Virtual Exchange training format by expert teams from Mexico (UNAM) and the Netherlands (UG) and the projects resulting from it.

Spatial and embodied theoretical turns provide an imperative for collecting multimodal data, but video recording may be perceived as invasive in school settings. In this study, screen recordings allowed for multimodal analysis of translingual writing, while also providing participants with control i...