Abstracts archive

This conversation-analytic study illustrates a longitudinal and retrospective approach to documenting a student’s access to a past learning object in an L2 classroom setting over the course of multiple moments of interaction. Drawing on video-recorded interactions from an EFL classroom, the analys...

This paper will explain how design-based research was used to design and implement the short course on training lecturers across faculties in applying multilingual pedagogies at a university in South Africa. Preliminary results on the lecturers’ awareness of and attitudes towards the application o...

This paper explores how language emerges and moves among other forces and bodies in a youth participatory action research project with multilingual youth. Using Deleuze’s (1990/1995) notion of stuttering, it illustrates how youth were connected to the immediacy of their socio-political-material en...

This lecture outlines a context of change in China in which new textbooks were introduced into some colleges. In order to prepare teachers for textbooks which were innovative in this context, three types of trainings are offered to help them adapt the textbook.

In this talk, I propose an approach to measuring out-of-class language use, where language usage is operationalized into fifteen different types of activities, covering all potential target language use. The purpose of this talk is to assist in the work of creating a best-practice for measuring lang...

Based on a specialized research corpus of articles mentioning language from the period between 1980 and 2018 (ca. 29k, 40 million words), this pilot study tests the potential of topic modeling for the identification of large-scale patterns in (language/related) discourses and (language) ideologies w...

This talk focuses on practices of athletic identity construction on Instagram by young female football players in Austria. The goal is to investigate strategies of self-presentation, self-disclosure and parasocial interactions used by these amateur players. Juxtaposing these with practices by profes...

Mediation is an appropriate task type to implement plurilingual and pluricultural approaches in the EFL classroom. This talk presents insights from an empirical study on mediation with secondary school students (Years Ten to Thirteen) in Germany (N = 92). On this empirical basis conclusions are draw...

To assess metacognitive strategy knowledge, the ScenEx questionnaire uses six strongly language-driven scenarios typical of university life. This presentation will discuss the results of a multi-group confirmatory factor analysis between L1 and L2 university students that tackles possible L1/L2-rela...

This paper presents methodological reflections from a study using language portraits combined with interviews with a multilingual child over a three-year period. We highlight the connections between the child's linguistic repertoire and her lived experience of her own languaging, identifying challen...

This paper presents a female Iraqi student’s perceptions of how mainstream U.S. high school content classrooms function as a contested space for multilingual and multicultural immigrant youth. This space, which is constituted by a lack of support, in turn affected the academic achievement and over...

Positive Language Education recognizes a trend toward increasing awareness of the need to consider the whole person in local and global contexts. Learner and teacher wellbeing is not an optional extra but a fundamental foundation for skill sets needed in their personal and professional lives.

Understanding the language-ideological processes associated with media effects is the centre of the current study. This study explores different kinds of language ideologies prevailing in the media space in contemporary Hong Kong society.

This study of materials in an Indigenous language reclamation context examines the intra-actions among Ojibwe First Speakers, immersion school youth, and land. We apply Indigenous perspectives (Simpson, 2014) and sociomateriality (Fenwick, 2015) to point-of-view videorecordings of bilingual walks in...

Fluency in terms of speed of speech and (lack of) hesitations such as silent and filled pauses ('uhm's) is part of oral proficiency. Language assessment rubrics therefore include fluency but manually measuring fluency is highly time-consuming. We introduce revised and new PRAAT scripts to automatica...

This research investigated the implementation of an assessment activity inspired by Dynamic Assessment (DA – POEHNER, 2005, 2008, 2011), Mediated Development (POEHNER & INFANTE, 2015) and Mediated Learning Experience (FEUERSTEIN, FEUERSTEIN; FALIK, 2014) theories, as a way to stimulate le...

This presentation investigates the different layers of cultural and intercultural mediation through a comparative case study of two prestigious institutions (Inalco in Paris and Soas in London). Through in depth interviews of teachers, our study seeks to relate the two institutional contexts to the ...

Presentation of the results of the analysis of the melodic features of 77 emphatic utterances in the spontaneous speech of 33 native speakers of Swedish who speak Spanish as a foreign language, using the MAS method (Melodic Analysis of Speech), to characterise the emphatic intonation of their phonic...

The paper presents an overview of the occurrence of metalanguage in online newspaper comment boards. It distinguishes several categories of metalanguage, both formally and functionally, and discusses how each category provides different insights into social relations. Finally, the importance of anal...

The paper grapples with the ways in which everyday multilingualism intersects with the Australian government’s agenda of ‘social integration’. It argues that it is the trans-semiotic elements of ‘everyday multilingualism’, rather than English, that unite society and provide a key for much-...

In the paper, I consider the role of creative inquiry in eliciting and then shaping young people’s emergent voices in everyday and school contexts. I will draw on a number of projects that were located in the field of everyday literacies and language practices together with a creative inquiry lens...

Researchers have claimed that centering the role of the interpreter on principles of impartiality and neutrality makes for rigid and insensitive practitioners. We argue that a radical impartiality should be seen as the solution rather than the problem regarding how interpreters can be of service in ...

This paper examines knowledge, attitudes and beliefs (Ernest, 1989) of multilingualism in German teachers. Framed by sociological and pedagogical frameworks, we discuss the advantages and limitation of qualitative content analysis in order to approach attitudes towards multilingualism.

Young learners (aged 11-12) were tested in pairs through role-plays (CEFR-related) in a multistage test design. The results, analysed using item response theory (IRT), show that performances in interactional oral competence could be consistently related to a standardized competence scale. The scores...

This study examines the link between learning gains and learner perceptions of authentic audiovisual materials regarding L2 vocabulary acquisition in Spanish. In addition to a pre and post-test, a survey was administered regarding students' perception of explicit grammar teaching methodology and the...

The present paper proposes a framework for fostering dialogic interaction with learners intended to render concept map instructional materials as cognitive tools to regulate learner L2 use and understanding of academic concepts

This paper examines the out-of-class language learning activities of 18 university students of Japanese, focusing on the manner in which they compensate for gaps in their language competence. Drawing on sociocultural perspectives, the analysis found that students strategically utilised a variety of ...

Metacognition has been increasingly discussed as one of the main features of learning. In the DMM it is argued that multilinguals develop increased knowledge of languages and language learning through experience. In this presentation a DSCT perspective on multilingual learning and teaching with a fo...

This presentation discusses examples of metalinguistic commentary and metapragmatic frames around performances of “dialect” in Italian speech situations. Treating dialect as a “shifter” (Silverstein 1976), this presentation argues for the indispensable nature of metalinguistic commentary in ...

We explore the misogynistic abuse on Twitter against female Chilean politicians who openly supported the depenalization of abortion under three circumstances (2015-2017). The corpus-assisted analysis showed that abuse is heavily framed in moral, religious and crime narratives as opposed to the commo...