Abstracts archive

We present the MultiLingual Spaces research project, involving four researchers (also teacher trainers), six L2 English teachers and their students at four secondary schools in Sweden. The study is based in the ethnographic discourse-analytic framework Nexus Analysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004), f...

This study investigated teachers' perceptions about the implementation of ready-made and interactive-DDL materials (a resource developed to facilitate DDL activities) after professional development workshops for instructors of Portuguese and Russian as a FL using the learner corpus MACAWS. Challenge...

In a two-year intervention study, explicit form-focused instruction concerning grammar rules and reproductive practice was removed from the curriculum. This presentation evaluates seven teachers’ accounts on the implementation of an implicit form-focused approach in mainstream secondary education ...

This contribution highlights the potential of pop culture texts for introducing and illustrating grammar in foreign language education. It is suggested that using authentic pop culture materials, such as lyrics, present a viable option to rely on authentic material and to achieve meaningful contextu...

Our presentation discusses the use of teaching materials in deaf education. Four Dutch and six Brazilian deaf school language teachers have been interviewed in order to know more about the course books used in language teaching, how they selected the materials, and what they thought about them.

Drawing on video recordings of editorial conferences of a German TV news magazine, we show how television producers orient to genre claims that are central to their professional self-definition. Although genre isn’t explicitly negotiated, participants orient to genre both in the overall structure ...

This presentation describes the Coral Way Bilingual Program, the first publicly funded dual language (Spanish/English) bilingual education program that opened in the US in 1963. Archival data and oral histories are presented to demonstrate the long term outcomes from the program on students’ langu...

In this presentation, I propose a Dynamic Model of Autonomy Development as a Complex Phenomenon. The model illustrates the influence of subsystems such as motivation, beliefs, identities, and emotions, which enhanced or inhibited the autonomization process in the language learning trajectories of TE...

Adopting a CLIL perspective, this study investigates the policies, perceptions and practices concerning the courses that claim to integrate content learning and language learning in the Chinese College English context by using both a quantitative research method and a qualitative research method.

This paper addresses the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the term 'mother tongue' in general and the empirical and ideological problems of using the term in the context of contemporary China in particular. The author draws on empirical data derived from an ethnographic project on languag...

This paper explores the positioning of home and school-learned languages in a highly linguistically diverse primary school in Brussels, Belgium. It focuses on teachers’ decisions as they adopt a Functional Multilingual Learning approach which recognises pupils’ full linguistic repertoire as a di...

The research project presented explores how teachers use an EFL textbook at primary school in Switzerland. Insights gained from observing six teachers teaching the same unit of the textbook will be presented. The addition of a fourth category to Shawer's (2010) classification system as well as a fin...

This paper presents examples of plurilingual teaching from a research-practice partnership investigating how to raise critical multilingual language awareness through collaborative multilingual project-based learning. Through linguistic and cultural collaboration, students develop critical and creat...

This paper discusses English language teachers’ assessment literacy in Brazil. The great majority of the participants consider they either do not know or know little about the issue which indicates the urgent need of offering initial and ongoing education to those teaching foreign languages to chi...

We analyze how the linguistic phenomenon of the subjunctive is taught in the language classroom and we argue that the teaching might benefit from providing deep insights of the subjunctive accumulated in the scientific field of linguistics by means of addressing the function of the subjunctive expli...

This interview study of Swedish teacher educators, in-service teachers, and pre-service teachers focuses on their attitudes and beliefs on multilingualism through a language orientation lens. The study reveals tensions among the participants and contributes to an understanding of the impact of teach...

This paper aims at analysing mediation sequences carried out in teletandem exchanges in order to assess and evaluate oral intercomprehension skills. Research questions regard the dynamics of communication processes in mediating concepts sequences and intralingual strategies for adapting discourse. T...

In this paper, we aim to shed light on the bidirectional and individual cognitive, social and linguistic factors in relation to bilingualism and second language learning, with a special focus on older adulthood. a meta-study of third-age language learning studies is presented and future research ave...

This paper uses the metaphor of “dance” to conceptualize interdisciplinary collaborations between applied linguists and content faculty at a Canadian university for the purpose of developing strategies and approaches to support linguistically diverse students in content classrooms. The findings ...

This ethnographic case study of a drama-based ESL class for adult immigrants in the U.S. examines the improvisational nature of qualitative research and L2 pedagogies. Findings demonstrate the importance of attending to messiness in our research and pedagogy and the productive nature of resistance f...

This interview study presents 13 preschool class teachers’ experiences of assessing the language abilities of six year olds who speak other languages than Swedish at home. The classroom assessments were valued as a starting point but the teachers felt the need to vary their methods when assessing ...

Teachers play a central role in shaping subject content knowledge for teaching culture in foreign language classroom teaching practice. This presentation aims to discuss two findings on teachers’ mediation between their conceptions of culture and its classroom teaching practice, drawing from a cas...

In this paper I consider the different ways FSL teachers understand bilingualism and translingual practices in initial and continuing teacher education and how their conceptions of bi-/multilingual identity intersect with their understandings of multilingual pedagogies and their own linguistic and p...

Female teachers in Germany for most of the 19th century professionally were restricted to private contexts. Thus for women, teaching – in particular living languages – in 19th century Germany was not just a pedagogical act, but always a political statement. To illustrate this hypothesis, the pap...

This presentation will present the findings of six semesters of virtual exchange between Israel and Germany with special focus on the conversation analysis of student video conferencing and second language interactional competence (L2IC).

I differentiate the various approaches to research on TESOL textbooks and materials by using the framework of content, consumption, and production. To make the differences between these three approaches clearer, I will review strong exemplars of each type, then present examples of innovative researc...

This study investigated Japanese college students' linguistic and rhetorical patterns in classroom English presentation introductions. We found that, for Japanese speakers, the introduction functions as an introduction of the topic or a clue, and they often use a question form to involve and engage ...

Through analysis of student and teacher experiences, the presentation reveals the impacts recent nationalist policies have had on ELT in China, and we point to pedagogical interventions that balance internationalist and nationalist desires in China, a binary that many language educators and policy m...

In this conversation analytic study, we analyze the use of response tokens by L2 Speakers of German at different proficiency levels in face-to-face German-language interaction to show how the competence of interaction is to be understood on a gradient (from less to more competent) rather than as an ...

Menus are important platforms for self-presentation of restaurants. This study investigates how restaurants present their 'personality' on menus, specifically menus on walls, signs, and print. A case study of Stellenbosch, South Africa, is used, as the city has a high cluster of independently owned ...