Abstracts archive

A mixed methods study revealed that a diverse student population pursued English-language proofreading services to improve their writing and academic marks. The types of interventions reported suggest that students’ pursuit of third-party proofreading may reflect an ideologically based fear of bei...

This paper intends to to analyze race and gender performativity in the advertising campaign on racism and to investigate the performative effects of this campaign on comments posted on the “SUS without Racism” Facebook page. To this end, it intertwines perspectives of Indisciplinary Applied Ling...

In this paper we will analyze the ways in which community arts and sociolinguists achieve their common goals in an action research project. Our research shows that sociolinguistically informed art sessions can create a space where the institutional monolingual norm is overcome, and the children embr...

We will shed some light on the processes and mechanisms involved in the development of L3 speech perception. More specifically, we will analyse the adaptive processes by which multilinguals accommodate new features and modify the existing ones.

We aim at presenting two courses of Portuguese as an additional language for academic purposes at a higher education institution in Brazil as well as discussing the implications of a questionnaire done with foreign graduate students attending the courses in regards to their language practices. Our r...

Since the scope of language policy has expanded beyond its once exclusive focus on top-down structural forces, our analyses of policy texts should embrace complexity, dynamicity and hybridity and shift toward 'ethnography of text' focussing on how fragments of policy texts are imbued with context-sp...

Appropriate referential choice at re-introduction context in narratives requires integration of varying levels of information, and thus has been claimed to be the locus of transfer in bilinguals. We present a qualitative analysis of Japanese-English bilingual children’s Japanese narratives to eluc...

This paper examines social learning in the context of a university English course based on the principles of learner autonomy. This is achieved through a research approach to practice, employing ideas from autoethnography (Choi, 2017), Exploratory Practice (Allwright & Hanks, 2009) and reflectiv...

This paper identifies the discursive changes around the textual and semiotic construction of gender identity in one ELT textbook series as content is relocated from the global to the regional, and then to the national context.

This paper reports on a linguistic ethnographic study drawing on some methodological challenges during the process of representing multilingual data collected from a group of Syrian immigrants who have settled and started to live in Istanbul within the last five years.

Exploration of Chinese L2 learners' output challenges regarding different learning contexts

This paper addresses two main questions: How do companies use different modes to represent gender, race and sexual diversity issues? And how can all these modes be handled analytically? For that purpose, twenty corporate websites, selected on criteria of excellence, international scope and type of b...

Analyzing three fusion food-centric episodes of an American documentary-style reality TV cooking show, I demonstrate how linguistic and multimodal strategies—ingredient descriptions (especially regarding taste), non-English word pronunciations, references to family members, place-centric narrative...

This paper addresses symbolic inequality (Zhu & Kramsch, 2016) through investigating translanguaging pedagogy as boundary-making/ unmaking counter-discourse. This paper uses nexus analysis (Scollons, 2004) to ethnographically research on the Multimodalities-Entextualisation Cycle (MEC) (Lin, 201...

Drawing on sociocultural theory, this paper presents preliminary findings from a non-interventional classroom observation PhD study of reading circles with young adult Swedish learners of English as a Second Language, aiming to understand how small-group conversations about novels in the target lang...

This presentation aims to contribute to the overall understanding of the importance of a new framework for interpreting acts of silence in classroom interaction. Utilizing the framework based on the theory of "pragmatic acts" (Mey, 2001) and "common ground" (Clark, 1996), the ambiguous and dynamic m...

Research into the regulation and performance of teacher emotions is frequently conducted through interviews and surveys; however, less commonly employed is the stimulated recall methodology, through which participants are observed teaching and asked to reflect on their thought processes during class...

The concept of ‘relanguaging’, introduced in this study based on language practices in South African English classrooms, systematically unsettles the dichotomy between linguistic fluidity and fixity. Based on the conceptual integration of these two dimensions of language, I propose alternative w...

New technologies providing more detailed accounts of learner behaviors require novel approaches to transcription. This study elicited data concerning learners’ cognitive / affective processes and related behaviors. Juxtaposing second-by-second psychometric variations against observable phenomenon ...

Two teams of researchers undertake a retrospective analysis of their practice in researching intercultural mediation in very different cultural contexts. By considering the methodological obstacles, the resources used and retrospective reflections, they synthesise the specific features of researcher...

This paper is part of a master's degree reasearch and aims to discuss narratives of black female teachers, emphasizing their teacher identities and their racial identities. Results indicate that racial awareness influences how the teachers relate to students and to the teaching process.

This study uncovers the types of raciolinguistic ideologies that mixed heritage individuals (MHIs) commonly encounter due to their racial appearance and linguistic practices. Thematic analysis of 293 MHIs primarily located in the U.S. indicate that MHIs often encounter exclusion because their racial...

This study examines the ideology of Neoliberal education manifested in Ratemyprofessors.com’s mission, rating criteria, and students’ comments. College education is commodified, from which students are expecting a high return rate for their time and money invested. Such ideology promotes a hosti...

The talk investigates the intra-action (Barad 2007) of humans, objects and technical apparatus as actants and co-creators in animation making. It posits that this assemblage generates an affective flow between all participating entities - human and non-human - and it explores the workings and conseq...

This conversation analytic study explores the relationship between recipient affiliation and interactional competence by examining how participants of different L2 proficiencies orient to the projected expectations of the speaker and mobilize responding actions that endorse the speaker's conveyed st...

This study explores an immersion teacher professional development experience centered on analyzing and redesigning secondary Spanish immersion instructional materials to include a language focus. Analysis indicated that participants teachers developed content and language knowledge for teaching, but...

Reflection is necessary for the language learner to promote language awareness and it is implemented by reflective dialogue which is an approach to confront the learner’s own experiences and beliefs. This presentation explores how reflective dialogue can affect learner autonomy by introducing two ...

In 2017-2018, a national language survey was conducted in the Netherlands among young learners (aged 11-12) in the final year of primary school, aimed at determining the students' English competence levels in reading, listening, speaking and vocabulary. Results can be compared to results from the pr...

This presentation investigates the dialogical relationship between poetic transcriptions and analysis of interviews with two teachers of Vietnamese in a community language school in Australia. It is suggested that the use of poetic transcription can simultaneously highlight, validate and valorize th...

The presentation addresses the disparity in language and literacy resources among Asian immigrant and refugee students and its implications for classroom instruction and policy making. Asian immigrants and refugees’ resource inequalities prior to immigration, compounded by assimilationist immigran...