Abstracts archive

Multiliteracies-oriented materials often over-utilize activities that emphasize "experiencing" texts, creating less opportunities for conceptualization and analysis (Menke & Paesani, 2019). I present findings from the implementation of multiliteracies-informed Digital Social Reading (DSR) and fa...

This paper examines how experts and novices align their bodies to facilitate mutual monitoring and coordinated action in skill learning. Through a multimodal analysis of videotaped interaction in a variety of instructional settings, this paper explores participant frameworks used to synchronize enac...

This paper presents a sociolinguistic study conducted among 274 parents of different mother tongues in Quebec, to investigate the patterns and predictors of the intergenerational transmission of French. The paper discusses the implications of the findings for provincial language planning to ensure t...

The paper explores opportunities and challenges internationalization in higher education has posed for Lithuanian education researchers seeking to learn new qualitative and ethnographic research approaches. The focus is learning of interactional ethnographic epistemology within a 4-year EU funded pr...

This presentation draws on an ethnographic multiple case study to explore the ways Greek teenagers’ everyday literacy practices relate to their pop culture interests in music, films or sports. The aim is to illustrate that their interest-driven engagement is characterized by intertextuality, circu...

In EFL textbook research, little is known about how teachers use prefabricated textbook packages to promote student learning and achievement. Adopting a qualitative-empirical research perspective, the talk outlines a holistic, case-based strategy for examining teachers’ use of materials and media ...

The first steps into the professional development of language teachers are usually taken at university where undergraduate students having decided to go on the path of teaching languages become ‘pre-service teachers’. This study investigates these ‘fledging’teachers views of the instruction ...

This research study investigated the development and experience of applying digital literacy skills within English for Academic Purposes teaching from the teachers' perspectives. The use of technology in EAP teaching, development of conversancy in digital literacy skills within teacher training cour...

The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate various test-taking strategies that 103 Japanese students utilized dealing with TOEFL®-iBT integrated-skills test items. The study revealed that the students used a variety of cognitive and metacognitive strategies which appear to be influenced by ...

We investigated the processing of free combinations and collocations, which differ in lexical fixedness. Eye movements of L1 and L2 speakers of Italian were recorded while they read target sequences embedded in context. The degree of lexical fixedness and leaners’ proficiency were found to affect ...

This study extends past research comparing languages occurring in the same society to multiple languages differing in status. Multilevel path analysis revealed an interaction between attitude and context in predicting proficiency. How much a language 'belongs' to the society or is 'useful' affects t...

This paper investigates how 'interculturality' is reflected upon by University students involved in the online simulation game Megacities, which was played in English as a lingua franca. Unversity students participated in the game in the summer term of 2021 and their Zoom interactions were recorded ...

This study explores the way Spanish L1 teachers assess Haitians’ written production in Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) and the development of interlanguage through error analysis. Results point at the need to include the teaching of SFL in the public-school curriculum to foster academic litera...

The paper aims to present how overt and covert language policies related to Portuguese as an Additional Language are narrated by East Asian international students in a Brazilian university and in what way these policies impact on their insertion during their academic sojourn.

Tracking L2 French listening for a period of three years, this research takes eight case studies – students at a secondary school in England – and probes the intra- and inter-individual variation in listening comprehension as well as its contributory subsystems of working memory, lexical and syn...

The paper compares four-word lexical bundles in novice academic texts (undergraduate theses) in the field of economics written by Czech learners of English and native speakers. Our aim is to explore whether the problem of phraseological complexity measure can be tackled by the use of the onomasiolog...

Fluency in second language speaking can be a challenging construct to measure (De Jong & Mora, 2019; Rossiter, 2009). However, it is important to identify the discourse features that may contribute to fluency. The results from this small scale classroom research project suggest positive implicat...

This study presents and analyses data from Korean language students on short-term study abroad to investigate the roles of intercultural mediators in the target language community who support learners in making sense of new cultural experiences and critically reflecting on self, the target language ...

I aim to explore how the relationship between internationalisation and English is represented in Spanish universities’ top-down documents using corpus linguistics techniques and critical discourse analysis. The analysis of overt and covert language ideologies and language management indicates powe...

This presentation argues for ISLA to be more curricular and pedagogically-based and proposes the division of ISLA into two sub-strands to include ISLA applied studies that seek to inform pedagogical practice via instruction. An exemplar of a longitudinal study embedded within the language syllabus a...

We investigated the contribution of syntactic and semantic structures in the oral production of locative alternations in a cross-linguistic priming experiment on L1 Chinese and L2 English speakers. The results indicate both word order and thematic role ordering similarities facilitate the persistenc...

This paper focuses on the English language support practices at a Canadian university. It highlights findings related to the processes that shape interdisciplinary collaborations for the purpose of developing discipline-specific language and literacy support at the curricular core and discusses the ...

This paper explores international students’ language learning experience in Australia and Europe. The same standardized questionnaire, designed initially for Study Abroad students at European universities, examines students’ educational experience. The first part discusses the Australian data an...

From an intersectional and decolonial perspective, I reflect upon the performativity of whiteness and affect in the academic context by looking into the discursive evaluative stances (Nóbrega, 2009) in research as performance (De Fina, 2015) and race performativity (Melo, 2019, 2020). I defend we w...

The presentation offers considered reflection of the management of a new ER program using M-Reader, introduced in AY 2016 at a small women-only university in Japan. Presenters talk of lessons learned in managing all aspects of the ER program. Presenters explain across three sections: (1) initial set...

The current study investigates learner beliefs (see Ellis, 2004) held by foreign language learners regarding their experience in learning Business English online. The study also aims at contributing to the search of conceptual understanding of English from the perspective of BELF users and learners ...

This paper investigates whether vocabulary knowledge and skills predict aspects of fluency. We measure vocabulary knowledge, fluency, and vocabulary skills (lexical retrieval and articulation speed). This unique approach indicates that vocabulary knowledge and skills relate to aspects of fluency, wh...

This study investigates university EFL teachers’ perceptions of CT and how two teachers integrated CT into language teaching. Findings indicate that CT should be an integral part of EFL curriculum, and that the opportunities for teachers to research into their practices helped their language teach...

This work investigated the patterns of language maintenance and shift in the Blang speech community with a particular focus on the family domain. The findings contribute to the current understanding of LMS in the family domain by highlighting the interaction between different social actors in the fa...

This talk provides a framework for the symposium: Plurilingual teaching and learning: giving participation, equality and social justice in education a chance. The talk outlines some prevalent epistemological traditions related to plurilingual pedagogy before highlighting principal issues that have e...