Abstracts archive

Ontario's recently instigated policy enhancing educational outcomes for diverse learners necessitates that pre-service programs provide teacher candidates with explicit instruction in supporting multilingual learners across the curriculum (Ontario College of Teachers, 2014). There is little agreemen...

Through focus groups, interviews, and questionnaires, 15 international TAs discussed fallacies about composition. Using Legitimation Code Theory, we argue that by emphasizing social attributes these fallacies prevent non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) of composition from professional legi...

This paper describes a four-factor model which captures what is franca about ELF in terms of: how a speech event instantiates English; how a Community of Practice (CoP) regulates degrees of involvement; how (self-)socialization/multilingualisation promotes code-sharing somatic habitus; and habitat, ...

The present study investigates whether lexical fixedness and compositionality play a role in L1 and L2 speakers’ intuitions about Italian word combinations. Data from an acceptability and a lexical choice task were analysed using psycholinguistic and computational indices. The present research pre...

This presentation will outline results of a semester-long mobile-based intra-institutional Telecollaboration study between learners of English and learners of Chinese. The degree of linguistic alignment will be discussed as will text-, video-, and audio-based Language Related Episodes.

This study examines how higher-rated language use during second language speaking and writing performance can be predicted by linguistic features found in speaking and writing samples while controlling for linguistic knowledge. Findings provide similarities and distinctions between speaking and writ...

This study explores stance-taking strategies as employed by advanced L2 students when they write a critique essay. Lancsbox corpus analysis tool was used to analyze the data. The study found that direct critical expressions are frequently used as boosters, various hedges are used, attitude markers a...

With the current policy of internationalization of federal universities in Brazil, there have been far-reaching changes. Before the internationalization policy, the main academic language was Portuguese, but now there is a growing shift to English. This paper focuses on the orientation of one partic...

Based on examples of learners’ engagements with literary texts, this talk argues that aesthetic reading can help to expand current paradigms of second language literacy development and can thus create imaginative spaces in which learners can explore and reflect on their developing positions as mul...

By looking for alternative ways to live language teacher education otherwise, we have found in decolonial thinking possibilities for the resignification of our praxis. In this paper, we will present three praxes, which represent our efforts to fight coloniality, and we conclude by arguing for a deco...

We examine interactions taken from 32 international students who use lingua franca English on a LEGO task. Through analysis, we highlight features of collaborative interactions such as “positive face” maintenance and joint production of utterances, which indicate their engagement and involvement...

Las experiencias emocionales están estrechamente relacionadas con las culturas a las que pertenecemos y las lenguas que hablamos. En este sentido, analizamos la relación entre el mantenimiento de la lengua de origen y la aculturación emocional de los migrantes españoles y sus descendientes respe...

The study analyzes lexical and morphological complexity in texts written by first and third year university German and Spanish learners of Italian. Results show an interplay of developmental level, L1-L2 typological distance and lexical and morphological complexity. Theoretical and methodological im...

This study examines a relatively new register, online academic forum posts which are used as a form of assessment in higher education. By using an multidimensional analysis, the lexico-grammatical characteristics of online academic forum posts were explored across two L1 backgrounds (L1 Chinese and ...

It is a common topos that language differs very much depending for example (and most importantly) on its usage in a written or a spoken way. It is less known that there are also - and again quite different - usages of language if it is connected with moving images. Professional television news autho...

Drawing on a ten-month longitudinal study of two Austrian English-medium CLIL secondary school classrooms, this presentation examines the teaching-and-learning of mathematics through English. I discuss how teachers and students simultaneously use and develop linguistic repertories, including L1 and ...

The project Linguistically Sensitive Teaching in All Classrooms aims to bring a change into European education. It targets pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators in the EU and wants to provide them with a tool that helps them develop their teacher cognition and change from monolingual to...

Adult migrants are a heterogeneous group in which different literacy profiles can be identified, taking account of migrants' educational background.  In this study, we focus on non-literate and low-literate refugees and migrants in Greece, drawing on qualitative data provided by language teache...

With quality education in mind, this presentation offers thought-provoking suggestions on how literary texts can be utilized to promote students’ critical thinking and enhance their foreign language skills. The presentation is based on empirical research undertaken at a private university in the U...

This presentation examines a peer language tutorial involving Thai and Japanese students mediated through the use of English and embodied resources. Findings of the study will add useful insight into language learning in the context global mobility wherein individuals ceaselessly expand their repert...

Alongside the challenge of empirically and conceptually mapping the spectrum of translanguaging practices, we address its multiple functions-in-context and its interactional manifestations. We concentrate on data in ‘prohibitive’ educational contexts in multilingual Brussels. The analysis highli...

We report on a two-part study drawing on semi-structured interviews, focus groups and classroom observations with experienced educators of refugee background learners to better understand the language and literacy needs/challenges and mindful pedagogical responses used to build relationships with th...

Transcripts of twenty-nine Spanish-English teletandem spoken conversations were scrutinized for aligned language (lexical and morphosyntactic overlap) taking into account task-effects (free conversation vs. Spot-the-Difference tasks). Results are discussed in light of instructed SLA perspectives on ...

This presentation explores complexities and potentialities in Turkey as a liminal space occupying a fluid position between the global North and South. It draws from an ethnographic study that investigates the role of Turkish and English language learning with consequences for Sub-Saharan African stu...

This paper examines how binary notions and ideological stances related to authenticity and mother-tongue users are (re)conceptualized and (re)contextualized in the constitution of social group differentiation.

The construct of linguistic risk-taking offers innovative informal language-learning opportunities for English/French (Linguistic Risk-Taking Passport developed in Canada) and German ('Riskier was!' Booklet developed in Austria) designed to foster authentic and autonomous language use outside the cl...

This presentation aims at analyzing literacy practices related to race, gender and intersectionalities legitimized by English textbooks in Brazil. We rely on the conceptions of ideology, language ideologies, ideological literacies and on a performative approach to identities to scrutinize literacy p...

This in-progress study analyzes the literacy needs of students that have been returned and inserted into the Mexican higher educational system upon completing their previous studies in the United States. The purpose is to identify academic areas of improvement, so they develop their Cognitive Academ...

In my talk, I analyse biographic narrative conducted during an ethnographic study of Hungarian-speaking groups in Catalonia. I compare various data sources on the conceptualisations of the local linguistic diversity experienced in Catalonia and ways of imaginations of adjustment and integration to t...

A longitudinal study which investigated the relationship between phonological short-term memory and working memory capacity and the development of L2 grammar competence over the period of 2 years was conducted. Among the four tests of working memory only listening span predicted the slope (i.e. chan...