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This presentation introduces a case study of a multilingual intercultural family in Japan, which is employing a "one week, one language" FLP. Findings on the receptive and productive language skills of the family's 5-year-old son, as well as his language choice and code-switching patterns are also d...

In 3 experimental studies for German (9th grade), French (8th grade) and English (10th grade), we compared the effects of audio-, video-, and text-chat interaction on both the quantity and quality of learners’ TL use during 1) online task interaction and 2) subsequent oral F2F task performance.

This PhD-study explores how multilingualism can be operationalized. A first study examined teacher cognition (Myklevold, forthcoming), whereas this article will analyze the pupils' perceptions. The purpose is to provide empirical evidence of how multilingualism may be operationalized, and explore ho...

I will present how four research dimensions – speakers' attitudes, media coverage, methodology of orthographic codification, and socio-political context of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian – can make a descriptive model of spelling reforms/changes in the 1990s and 2000s, providing bet...

This paper will expound on a qualitative analysis with parents in Spain aiming at identifying difficulties and best practices in catering for diversity in intercultural and content integrated language learning and teaching. It is comprised within the KA201 Erasmus+ project “CLIL for all: Attention...

This paper explores cross-linguistic influences on object marking in L2 Finnish by contrasting advanced L2-learners from various L1 backgrounds. Possible analogical systems in learners’ L1s expose the alternation to cross-linguistic influences. The results suggest that such influences are not only...

A critical ethnography was conducted in a marginalized high school in Colombia to understand the youth lived experiences as they engaged in social justice-oriented pedagogies to learn English. Findings revealed how the teachers counter neoliberal narratives of teaching by negotiating the curriculum ...

This self-report study investigates how 1368 participants perceived the intensity level of a British female’s emotional experience. Overall, audiovisual stimuli yielded higher intensity ratings than audio-only stimuli. More surprisingly, L1 participants’ intensity ratings were lower than LX part...

Research on phonological intelligibility in ELF communication has largely focused on identifying the pronunciation features that tend to cause miscommunication among ELF users. I argue for a shift from this 'lingua'-focus to a 'franca'-focus which takes proper account of how phonological intelligibi...

We present the results of an experiment in which 6-year-old English learners played a serious game targeting 40 words and combining systematic activities promoting form-meaning pairings with contextualization through the use of a storyline. The experimental groups outperformed the control groups by ...

Presenters review research on the value of reading in one’s heritage language, describe an online hub of resources in adult learners’ heritage languages, and describe ways these materials can be used with adult migrants who are learning a new language and have limited education and literacy in t...

This paper presents a discussion on family language policies of onward-migrating families who have re-migrated from Italy to the UK. Parents first migrated to Italy from Nigeria, Ghana, India, and Bangladesh, and after a long period of life in Italy and obtaining the Italian citizenship, onward migr...

Research into the effects of three instructional EFL oral interaction programmes designed for pre-vocational learners in grade 9 (n=147) on learners’ self-confidence, enjoyment and willingness to communicate revealed positive effects of condition on learners’ self-confidence. In turn, only self-...

Drawing on a five-year ethnographic study of Qatari national students' experiences in EMI international branch campuses, I examine the integral role that linguistic shame (Liyanage & Canagarajah, 2019) plays in identity construction as students engage with neoliberal, transnational higher educat...

A theorised framework for participative multilingual identity education is introduced, where the languages classroom is construed as a key site for identity development and the teacher as a change agent. Findings from empirical study in English secondary schools are presented, considering the effect...

Multimodal conversation analysis of talk in foreign language classrooms of Finnish and Estonian at an American university demonstrates how past learning experiences are invoked and made relevant for task at hand. The contexts involve peer interaction in task preparation, peer and teacher interaction...

This research aims to find out whether interactions help develop students’ language abilities and critical thinking skills. The results show that interactions significantly influence more complex tasks. Interactions help produce negotiations of meaning and form, make students pay more attention to...

This study describes how EFL learners in a Japanese university worked with incoherent entities for learning scientific writing and how the assemblages of incoherent entities of "science" are shaped at the science resource center for an EFL writing course in a Japanese university. This stud...

This study investigates the development of complexity in nominal phrases in adult learners of Swedish. A somewhat similar development as that of Bulté's learners of English is shown in our data by Swedish learners. A measure of the morphology of the phrase is tested and compared to Bulté's word me...

This paper examines the role of orthography in the production of English (stop+sibilant) sequences in plural forms produced by Brazilian Portuguese learners. Results showed that an epenthetic vowel is more prone to occur when the orthographic pattern is , as in grapes, than , as in cups. It was also...

The Online Informal Learning of English has been shown to have many advantages for the language acquisition of English language learners. This study indicates its importance in the development of learner pronunciation, showing probable effects of series watching on adoption of accent.

This paper investigates how to mitigate the conflict between OERs' openness and the principle of privacy when the open resources are student productions of a personal nature. It discusses one way to approach this issue in an Advanced French Composition class: have students write from the perspective...

Difficulties L1 French / L2 English learners have acquiring English /h/ is examined by considering the orthography-phonology mapping of the L2. Results from a word-learning experiment suggest a negative L1 orthographic interference when learners are exposed to an inconsistent mapping in the L2, whic...

This study explores blended learning in a Spanish for Specific purposes course. In this study learners preferred face-to-face sessions over independent online sessions. Learners seemed to be better able to take control and make sense of the learning materials after interacting with a more experience...

This presentation will discuss two studies run with  9-11-year-old pupils in 2019 and in 2020 in mainstream primary schools in Scotland in which multilingual artworks created by visual artists were employed to explore the potential of translanguaging art for language teaching in a multilingual ...

This paper proposes a pedagogical material that focuses on a poem, and follows principles of anti-racist education bringing intersectionality of race/ethnicity and gender into play. Tasks analyze racist and sexist situations experienced by the character and study language use within poetry, and prod...

This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to investigate longitudinally tracked learning objects with explicit retrospective orientations in collaborative digital EFL writing tasks. Pupils' retrospections (e.g. "what did we say?") suggest a problem orientation to a previously topicalised lang...

This presentation reports the results of an exploratory study on the perspectives of instructors using task-based materials. It also reports the observations of two classes as instructors use and implement a final task.

In this presentation, I will examine five different picturebooks (The airport book, The prince and the pee, The suitcase, Weirdo, When Charley met Emma) regarding their speech act content. I will focus on 15 speech acts acts (Advice, Advice Response, Apology, Agreement, Disagreement, Complaint, Expr...

The presentation will present insights from the implementation of a plurilingual lower secondary teacher education curriculum characterized by intensive use of various foreign languages by lecturers and students. The aim is to equip future language teachers with intensive learning opportunities incl...