Abstracts archive

Educational programmes based on the Language Gap theory evaluate linguistic practices on a two-point scale in which children’s linguistic background is contrasted to the norm at school. The presentation provides a different lens; a critical ethnographic sociolinguistic analysis of Roma disadvantag...

This study investigated the contextual effects of two different sojourn contexts on L2 development. The results of the qualitative analysis provided broader insights into the features of Anglophone and English as a Lingua Franca study abroad contexts, underlining issues of intercultural competence a...

This study aims to report the degree of agreement among 10 English-speaking instructors (i.e., native speakers of English) and 10 Japanese-speaking instructors of English as well as approximately 130 Japanese learners of English (the 1st year undergraduates) on appropriateness of requests with vario...

This presentation reports on an interventional study that investigated (1) in how far German and Dutch students can profit from instruction in decoding strategies involving receptive multilingualism when decoding the previously unknown neighbor language and (2) in how far these skills are transferra...

The use of the meaning potential of English beyond the standard variety and the exploitation of personal multilingual repertoires is essential in ELF use. Formative assessment empowers learners to explore their personal linguistic potential in order to face international communicative situations tha...

This project investigates the validity of a standardized receptive vocabulary test designed for native speakers of English when used with young learners of English in different L2 programs (immersion, EFL). Rasch analysis and group comparisons are conducted to show whether the test is suitable to va...

My central question in this study is what makes an English study abroad context unique for L2 learning and particularly L2 learners’ development of interactional competence. In other words, the aim of this study is to reveal what type of knowledge and ability could promote successful participation...

Offering CLIL classes could be regarded as a means of profile building for German schools, which have often criticized for seemingly catering to academically well-performing students. It appears, though, that schools and teachers are increasingly prepared to open “CLIL for all”, which will be di...

Automatizing testing and computation of multiple variations (pruning, normalization...) of L2 utterance fluency metrics, we collected pre/post oral interview responses from N=215 learners of French, and compared each metric's variation with external proficiency estimates, to determine which operatio...

There is a growing body of research on Aviation English assessment for pilots, although with more focus on civil than military aviation. Thus, the aim of this study is to develop a comparative analysis of the assessment systems in both contexts, based on documents, to search for similarities and dif...

The presentation focuses on instances of metaphoricity generated during oral foreign language examinations. Main question is whether the negotiation of metaphor can fall under the scope of symbolic power (Kramsch 2011) and thus contribute to discursive inequalities that can reflect on other discours...

There are many language learning websites and apps marketed directly to consumers for autonomous language study, yet we lack standards by which to evaluate these learning platforms’ worth. This presentation will present a set of evaluative criteria for considering the linguistic merit of autonomou...

Our study aims at examining cross-linguistic differences in naturalistic speech perception. We hypothesised that size of chunks in Swedish, Russian and Finnish is affected by differences in the structure of these languages. We chose extracts of spontaneous spoken speech and asked native speakers to ...

This presentation discusses the results of a study of the political discourse on Romani minorities in Switzerland. Based on the discourse-historical approach (CDA), it aims to show how Romani actors are constructed by the Swiss Federal Council and what argumentation strategies the Federal Council us...

This study compares L2 Spanish learning after inductive, consciousness-raising tasks vs. deductive explanations in three U.S. high schools. Both groups improved significantly on picture description and grammaticality judgment assessments, but the deductive group made modestly stronger judgment gains...

Based on experiences of teaching practice in German EFL classrooms, the contribution explores the viability of innovative and potentially inclusive assessment strategies. Current textbooks as well as teaching guides and syllabi are analysed in order to determine how assessment can serve as a key ele...

A linguistic analysis of personal and professional conflict can shed light on how collaborative creativity is enacted, allowing for further insights into the latent processes at play in theatre-making, while broadening the scope of applied linguistics and showing how creative inquiry can answer wide...

Authenticity is the experience of acting (or not acting) in ways that appear as ‘true to oneself’. In a professional development project, English teachers in Sweden explored authenticity experiences in teaching practice, and associated emotions. For the teachers, findings provided empowering ins...

This paper reports on a study conducted with university student-learners of Spanish and French. The inquiry explored student-learners’ self-perceived autonomy and approaches to the study of both languages. Although student-learners perceived themselves as autonomous, autonomy varied from one langu...

This study investigates the experiences of Australian Taiwanese-background parents and children, who sojourn to the parents’ homeland during school holidays to improve their linguistic and cultural skills. We explore outcomes of this language management activity, focusing on the mothers’ aims an...

By introducing important notions in research on language biographies, this contribution exemplifies with a case study how biography and language do not belong to one person alone, and change across the lifespan while staying consistent with the (changing) image of the self.Link to the video includin...

This paper presents a research study that empirically investigates the effects of peer rubric feedback as a reflective approach on pre-service foreign language teachers’ oral feedback skills in the target language English. The author presents the rubric as a reflective tool, discusses the rational...

This study explores whether L2 Japanese speakers produce for the purpose of expressiveness by examining the production of expressive morphology and accompanying gesture used by L2 Japanese speakers with English as L1 and Korean as L1, with L1 Japanese speakers as baseline. We demonstrate that, unlik...

This presentation aims to put forward a general overview of research in Applied Linguistics in Mexico. The purpose is to present the development and relevance of some research projects in Mexico, focusing on multiculturalism and multilingualism, and the importance of these studies in the various are...

This study evaluates task effects on L2 Mandarin fluency during Study Abroad, comparing monologic and dialogic mode; task differences largely reduced during SA, though mode differences remained.

This study deals with assessment practices in talk-in-interaction during assisted eating activities involving people who are in the late-stage of dementia.

The paper examines the interplay of L2 proficiency and cognitive processing capacity. This cognitive framework concentrates on the role of efficiency of processing and attention control for L2 fluency, with examples from Finnish-speaking university students of English.

Author’s editing services are widely used in English-medium journal publishing. Sometimes authors receive negative language-quality-related referee comments for already author’s edited papers. I employ the text history methodology to investigate how the academic and language brokers arrive at un...

This paper describes an investigation into online learning carried out in association with classroom situations. Primarily qualitative data is analysed in terms of learner entry into communities of practice and the contribution of changing identities  to language learning and the development of...

Background knowledge can facilitate comprehension and vocabulary learning during extensive reading. Related to, but often different from, lexical knowledge, it supports cognitive processes such as inference, integration, and comprehension monitoring by freeing up resources. A study done in an L2 EAP...