Abstracts archive

By analyzing narratives told in demonstrations, this study aims to understand how mothers who have lost their children in police violence organize their suffering by narrating such death. This study aligns itself with interpretative qualitative research methodology. The analysis was guided by Narrat...

This study investigated the relationship between self-regulatory reading strategies and self-efficacy for reading among beginner learners of French, experiencing either: (a) phonics instruction (b) strategy-based instruction, or (c) no explicit reading instruction. Findings will be discussed in rela...

By drawing on the method of conversation analysis, we illustrate how participants in multinational crisis management training attend to language related troubles during their tasks. Our findings show that the participants organise their verbal and embodied conduct in recipient-designed ways to colla...

Drawing on language-biographical interviews conducted with the use of language portraits with secondary school students in South Tyrol, Italy, I will show how the latter position themselves to ideologies that link ‘having’ a specific ‘mother tongue’ to nationality and ethnicity, using them a...

The paper assesses the connection between language policy and rise of populist politics in India, a land of diverse languages. It also poses the challenge as to how majoritarian politics in federal polities often may lead to a domino-effect with states following the national programme leading to an ...

With little financial support for the facilitation and promotion of Brabantish in education, heritage experts are still developing multiple initiatives to incorporate this regional language in the curricula of primary and secondary education. This study investigates the effectiveness and scope of th...

This narrative study revealed that gender is contested when the idea of transgender works as a personal mechanism to question existing normativities of one’s own body and the self. Identity then is presented as a series of choices and performances that are validated in the persona’s transgender ...

Modern video technology allows for a holistic capture of classroom interaction and its multifaceted multimodal structures. The talk will present a videobased research project for the exploration of the foreign language classroom aiming to reconstruct everyday practices in lessons of French and Spani...

Investigating a corpus of newspaper articles on the controversial topic of executive pay published recently in the major British newspapers and a second corpus of online below-the-line comments posted by the readers, we explore the role of numbers in co-constructing the notion of fairness and unfair...

This paper aims at problematizing the ideologies and language ideologies that are refracted in two Brazilian educational policies: BNCC and PNLD. In order to accomplish this purpose, our analysis will focus on the views of language and literacies (des)legitimized in these policies and the extent to ...

A news story comes into being through a succession of narrative situations, which are related to narrative ideologies, cultural conceptions pertaining to the telling of stories. This contribution uncovers three pillars that underlie the journalists’ narrative ideologies: contextually appropriatene...

This presentation outlines a course taught to Japanese EFL students that sought to develop interactional competence. Video data of student interactions revealed commonalities in such areas as discourse marker usage, repair, backchanneling and the like. Focused instruction addressed these issues and ...

This presentation will be dedicated to an underexplored form of disciplinary literacy practice: classroom work with literature in adult second-language instruction. I will show how the teachers and the intermediate language learners use linguistic resources while negotiating content knowledge about ...

If we consider interlocutors' video conferencing interaction (where multiple modes and semiotic resources are simultaneously available) as a multimodal orchestration, then how do interlocutors 'conduct' the orchestration to maintain to the harmony of their communication? Our participants managed to ...

Our paper analyses current discourses, policies and practices regarding the regional language of Latgalian in Eastern Latvia. The paper analyses a. the ideological frame and discourses on multilingualism; b. current policy reactions to demands by speakers of Latgalian; and c. practical obstacles in ...

The RADAr is a unique language assessment in the sense that the constructs tested in both the Dutch version of the assessment (taken by mostly native speakers of Dutch enrolled in a Dutch-language programme) and the English version of the assessment (taken by mostly Dutch and international students ...

This presentation explores the intersection of monolingual orientations in teacher education and efforts to normalize multilingual practices. Using examples from a teacher preparation program to cultivate a multilingual stance, the paper explores how mainstream teacher candidates respond to activiti...

Sociolinguistic ethnography is framed by the researchers' sociocultural and psychological frames of reference. Research of the attitudes towards English and its use by Brazilian university students conducted by their US peers highlighted the issues of class, race, and language identity. Critically-i...

The current study investigated the impact of a language teacher education course focused on ISLA in nurturing L2 teachers' research mindset, defined as teachers' cognition and action toward research. The course was designed following an inquiry-based approach, with course activities focused on promo...

Today researchers studying literacies as social and discursive constructions have a series of theoretical and methodological perspectives available to guide their research. In this presentation, I will present a theoretically grounded approach to examining the expressive potential of each theoretica...

This study documented the nature of university learners’ self-initiated and self-directed use of technology for vocabulary learning in the informal learning contexts and explored the relationship between different types of technological experiences and different aspects of vocabulary knowledge

By reporting findings of a multimodal-ethnographic study in a beginner EFL class in Montevideo, Uruguay, this presentation discusses how a locally-adapted EFL textbook is negotiated in the classroom. It shows how students negotiate ‘their own culture’ with the textbook by appropriating and trans...

Drawing on language-biographical interviews conducted with the use of language portraits with secondary school students in South Tyrol, Italy, I will show how the latter position themselves to ideologies that link ‘having’ a specific ‘mother tongue’ to nationality and ethnicity, using them a...

This presentation will examine how politicians in the United States apply neo-nationalism to the language-in-education policies they support. The study applies critical discourse analysis to publicly available state-level policy proposals pertaining to language-in-education policies for second/forei...

Principally speaking, a ‘nexus’ establishes an interrelation between languages and/or varieties in diverse dimensions of linguistic action. We found nexus interrelations within a linguistically fused symbol field (lexicon, vocabulary), cross-linguistic phoric procedures, cross-linguistic finite ...

This study discusses the effectiveness of early bilingual upbringing of children in Brazil – a monolingual country – by Brazilian parents, who are non-native speakers of the language they are passing on to their children. I analyze the parents’ role in the child’s language acquisition, the c...

This presentation describes a framework for Online Language Teaching (OLT) Readiness, built drawing widely from online pedagogy, CALL literature, and our experience of OLT practitioners. We argue that, given the normalization of online instruction, these skills and competencies should be integrated ...

Implementing successful alternative approaches for multilingual education requires positive attitudes towards multilingualism and towards home languages. The current research will measure how multilingual pedagogical approaches in primary schools have a positive and durable effect on implicit and ex...

This presentation explores English teaching practices that utilise and support learners' out-of-class English use, particularly communicative interaction enabled by the Internet. Activity theory is used to construct formal and informal learning as interlinked activity systems, with language awarenes...

This presentation shows the value transdisciplinarity  adds to media linguistics. It does so by investigating the digital literacy shift in journalism: the change, in the last two decades, from the predominance of a writing mode that we have termed focused writing to a mode we termed writing-by...