Abstracts archive

The objective of this paper is twofold: to carry out a multimodal analysis of an institutional video released by European Union, and to discuss an empirical activity of critical multimodal reading of the video as part of a continuing teacher education course at University of Campinas, Brazil.

The role of the 'new signer' is explored here in relation to adult university learners of Irish Sign Language (ISL). This study presents empirical data considering the extent to which being a sign language learner contributes to the formation or (re)negotiation of a multilingual identity.

This paper presents a comparative micro-analysis of interactional practices in two 4th grade English as a Foreign Language classrooms in Denmark. We investigate how music is used differently for teaching and learning in the two classrooms, and what consequences this has for co-constructing learnable...

This multi-modal, qualitative research investigated EAP teacher positive emotions in the higher education contexts of Saudi Arabia and the UK through teacher recordings of ‘sticky objects’ (Ahmed 2004), diary entries, and interview data. The findings illuminate positive emotional practices, noti...

In this paper presentation we wish to shed light on the relationship between students’ sense of agency and their perception of language learning success and cultural integration. In the study, 34 exchange students are tracked throughout a five month compulsory study abroad programme in four differ...

Southern thinking and intermingling cosmologies, epistemologies and ontologies of decoloniality run through deep canyons carved through millennia. Sociolinguists nurtured within the northern academy must side-step hubris lest they fall through the abyss that lies between northern and southern ways o...

This study examines how the shifting semiotic fields made available by mobility provides affordances for language learning in classroom interaction. The study of beginning learners draws on a database of 93 interactions in which students moved around the classroom during a language learning activity...

With the changing trends in sign language education and recognition, this study looks at how Deaf people from different backgrounds view sign language. Will Japanese Sign Language (JSL) become an endangered language or will it co-exist with Signed Japanese? This study will provide more insights into...

This study examines the affordances and limitations of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in developing preservice teachers’ instructional competency to scaffold language demands. It compares 100 curricular adaption assignments in two En...

Exploring social engineering through legislation that requires individuals and institutions to display what it believes are the collective’s desired values by defining and outlawing what is undesirable with the goal of producing uniformity in the public service, and by extension, in the general po...

This study will use sociocultural theories through a case study to reveal the complexity of Chinese languages" and "mother tongues" through a case study of Chinese heritage learners in Canada."

Robot-assisted language learning offers interesting possibilities for early language learning. We analyze child-robot-interactions in L2 learning in primary school. Our results show that the majority of problems in these interactions are related to L2 pronunciation. These results highlight the impor...

This case study explores patterns of L1 and L2 use by second graders attending a Chinese immersion program in the U.S. as they carry out classroom tasks with different interlocutors. Findings suggested that students use Chinese almost exclusively with teacher, and become English-dominant with peers ...

Drawing on data from video recorded Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) lessons and student teachers’ reflections, this contribution focuses on the challenges and benefits experienced by a group of prospective SFL teachers when taking part in a conversation analysis informed teacher university cou...

This study explores how shadowing practice using the Xreading program helps Japanese learners of English develop their speaking abilities. Nine participants engaged in four-weeks shadowing training. Qualitative changes in their speaking abilities were measured through four tasks:...

Drawing on the account of a young French national living in London I show how the emotions evoked in language autobiographies highlight ways in which agency remains heavily constrained by recourse to bounded labels of language, nationality and bilingualism, labels which do not adequately capture the...

SCT-based perspectives of intercultural mediation view it as the mental process of meaning-making and connecting new and existing cultural knowledge, as well as the scaffolding provided by others in this process. This presentation aims to identify, describe and classify instances of intercultural me...

This case study examines the positive psychology intervention, Finding Silver Linings, a cognitive reappraisal strategy to ameliorate the stress teachers feel in the workplace. Results demonstrated positive effects in-the-moment, but not enduring change. The fit among the individual, context, and sp...

The stories patients bring to healthcare encounters are not exclusively narratives of illness, but narratives of health and personal engagement. Analysis of small stories told through the use of direct reported speech reveal an attempt at constructing an identity of a whole person or an identity bey...

This research was conducted in an English for Specific Purposes class, in a federal public school (Brazil). It’s analised the relation between the students’ and the teacher’s Autonomy and the use of social media while discussing the role of women in the job market.

The aim of this research is to offer an innovative Spanish literacy course for transnational high school students in Puebla, Mexico. The course will be designed based on student's funds of knowledge and plurilingual needs and will include pedagogies involving heritage language learning and second la...

Given the significance that peer talks play in developing students’ interactive, oral language development in an internationalized multilingual university, from a 3-year ethnographic case study, we examined 2nd year business students turn-taking sequences. Through our findings, we highlight how th...

This quantitative study explores the role of motivation, instruction, language choice, teaching and learning environment for L3 course satisfaction in lower secondary school. It presents the data for L3 languages in general, and separately for the main L3 languages, and the implications for L3 instr...

We investigated the validity and utility of an oral proficiency self-assessment comprised of the ACTFL can-do statements (2015). We had two research questions: (1) What are the correlations among self-assessment results, oral proficiency scores, and course levels? (2) To what extent do oral proficie...

This study demonstrates the changes in EFL learners' attitudes over seven months of SRL based on self-study. Using the Q methodology, four learners in two groups are qualitatively compared to determine how learners come to deal with learning English self-regulatorily from the self-motivational b...

In my paper, I will reflect on etic (outside) and emic (inside) approaches (Pike, 2015) to media and language research, with Haapanen and Manninen (2021) and my own research (Stenberg-Sirén, 2018, 2020, submitted) as a starting point. The questions are: What do the etic and emic perspectives add? H...

Based on data from a large scale vowel identification experiment, this paper will discuss empirically grounded ways to operationalize perceptual similarity in L2 by integrating contributions from SLA research, experimental phonetics and cognitive psychology. A method to visualize perceptual similari...

This paper uses multimodal CA to analyze embodied second language learning in social circus workshops. The participants are young adult refugees learning Finnish. The analysis shows how the supportive and tolerate atmosphere of the circus activities creates conditions for second language users to tr...

This paper presents the findings from two studies that examine social media narratives to reveal health experiences from the patient point of view. Using a multi-method approach, we show that communicative cooperation is a fundamental part of a positive healthcare experience.