Abstracts archive

This contribution offers a historical overview of foreign language policies in the Italian school system in the last five decades through the analysis of its main school reforms, of most used course-books and of specific foreign language teaching terminology as used in language teacher education pro...

The current research examines family language policies within Russian-speaking single-parent families in Finland.

Equatorial Guinea, the only African country to use Spanish as an official language, is an example of how a uniquely African sociolinguistic setting challenges linguists to develop a new approach to examining the reality of linguistic ‘decolonization’ in a multilingual country which is deeply div...

Using public data, this presentation reports findings from a project on language support and bias in the Australian education sector. Our findings indicate an unequal distribution and visibility of languages. We will discuss the potential uses and limitations of public data on languages, and the imp...

Listening involves competition between candidate words activated by incoming speech signals. Using eye-tracking, we compare activation and competition patterns in listeners varying in age and bilingualism. Results speak against claims that competition is necessarily exacerbated for older listeners (...

This qualitative study investigates EFL learners in a 15-week Japanese learner autonomy program as they interact with advisors in face-to-face and online environments. It explores learner perspectives on self-selected tasks and resources in developing language learner autonomy, and the mediating rol...

While in recent L2 motivation literature, languages other than English (LOTEs) have garnered increasing attention, the case of simultaneous language learning remains largely neglected. Adopting a person-centred and multilingual perspective, this study drew on the multilingual motivational self syste...

We report on a computational model of chunking in development which utilizes stored multiword sequences during comprehension and production-related processing. It also abstracts over stored units to form partially abstract, lexically-based frames. The model captures ~70% of all multiword child utter...

Study abroad is a period of intensive change in both language use and identity development. This paper explores how out-of-class experiences of international English language students in Australia impact their language identity. My research findings point at study abroad as a multilingual experience...

Research on the acquisition of L2 collocations has examined different instructional conditions under which these can be best learnt. However, none has investigated the efficacy of a corpus-assisted contrastive analysis and translation approach on learning non-congruent collocations despite the evide...

This paper discusses how a University Language Policy was devised from research into EME, and analyses the broad range of implications of the policy in University Governance

This study examines the complexity of language students’ agency and identity work while envisioning their profes-sional career as language teachers. The research approach is nexus analysis. The multimodal materials come from Master’s-level courses where the students planned, designed and put int...

This emerging ethnography explores the settlement experience of Bangladeshi Muslim skilled immigrants in Canada and the intersectionality of language, race, and religion in their social integration. It focuses on language, access and participation for integration and envisions a reconceptualization ...

This paper explores a life history of 40-year career told by one Japanese professional who has worked extensively all over the world and examines how he has used English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF). His motivation for pursuing his global career and construction and transformation of his ident...

This presentation compares efforts to promote learner autonomy and engagement in two contexts: Results are shared from a CALL curriculum revision project at a Korean university, and current efforts to develop an independent language learning program at a Sino–U.S. joint venture university in China...

Learner engagement coincides with positive learning outcomes. In this study, we sought to investigate the link between engagement and motivation over a semester. The main objective was to see if increasing learners’ autonomy could enhance their engagement. Questionnaire-based data were juxtaposed ...

Drawing on Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis, this study examines students’ responses engendered by information-seeking teacher questions and argues that students’ awareness and employment of available semiotic resources constitute their competence in engaging in interactional ...

This case study describes how students’ translanguaging merges as index of becoming communicative in intercultural group interaction in a global education program. With the data collected ethnographically, the study will suggest that translanguaging is competence for students to contribute to thei...

Through complexity theory, this study aims to understand students’ autonomy in learning ESL in a context where mainstream schooling and private tutoring coexist. It challenges the view that teacher-dependence and learner autonomy are mutually exclusive and proposes that private tutoring can be a p...

This talk argues that professional learning is a dialogic process in which new understandings and intersubjectivity are mediated by language. Adopting applied CA, I examine video-based collaborative dialogic reflections between a trainee and a trainer to see how learning is facilitated and achieved,...

This study examines language provision in some of the Republic of Ireland's higher level institutions. It compares data collected on the ground to the goals set in the recently launched language policy that aims to increase the uptake of foreign languages in Ireland.

This presentation explores how the full integration of Telecollaboration/Virtual Exchange into teacher education programmes can have a significant impact on the development of the competences needed for the Web 4.0. In this talk, the evolution of Virtual Exchange (VE) in language education is briefl...

This paper reports on a study of the implementation of an English-taught program at a university in Sweden. The study describes the development of language-conscious courses and pedagogy, and documents and analyzes the lived experience of students and faculty members in the program.

This study introduces a new methodology of “ranking assessment” into pedagogical screening for the identification of second language (L2) readers requiring specific interventions. Results showed that a latent rank model has the potential to provide diagnostic information that determines what wor...

The presenter will draw conclusions from the joint reflections in Burkert, Heim & Schwienhorst (2020). She will first briefly sketch how the authors perceive the discourse on Learner Autonomy in their respective countries and settings and how the concept is (not) reflected in curricula and teach...

This study analyses initial learner profiles, in terms of level in English, learner autonomy, attachment and self-determination, of 35 students, then documents their contacts with IDLE and their progress in English over the 10 months of their first year in higher education, using logbook and classro...

In this symposium contribution, we present the first third-age language learning needs analysis. Ascertaining seniors' language learning needs is of vital importance as language learning needs of seniors are not only unaddressed in research but also in teaching pedagogy.

From a critical multimodal approach to communication (Machin, 2014), and drawing on the situated learning theory of the community of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991), this paper analyses daily practices and discourses of scientist practitioners in order to uncover what ‘learning by doing’ stan...

The reported investigation is into third-age foreign language learning experiences from a wellbeing perspective. Interviews with third-age learners were conducted and analysed through the lens of positive psychology, exploring the connections between the savouring of language learning and overall we...

Bilingualism is suggested to boost cognitive flexibility, an effect that may extend to foreign language learning. In this paper we present the method and preliminary results of our study aimed to evaluate the unique effect of foreign language learning in elderly at risk for old-age disorders.