Abstracts archive

A corpus-linguistic analysis has shown, that the German passive is used more often in school contexts than in everyday contexts. Furthermore, the passive is also used with functional differences: Besides the use of semantic different agents, passive-sentences has shown a different structure of argum...

This presentation reports on a study comparing the provision and efficacy of students’ peer feedback in blogs with and without previous peer feedback training. Forty L2 students registered in a French as a foreign language University program in Costa Rica participated in the study. Results will be...

Adopting a language policy perspective, this study examines the impact of national, regional, institutional and classroom language policy in an MA TESOL programme at an English Medium of Instruction (EMI) Sino-Foreign university. Our findings show how university language policy is inextricably linke...

This exploratory cross-national study investigates how the perceived plurilingual identity of pre-service teachers affects their self-efficacy. Data sources included 40 language portraits and in-depth semi-structured interviews. Initial inductive content analysis revealed a number of predominant the...

The aim of this paper is to examine whether an ICT self-learning system with learner’s self-videos pronouncing English could improve English fossilized phonemes of English alphabet for advanced and primary leveled Japanese university students. The ICT system was proven to help both students improv...

This study examines the interplay between demonstrating professional and emotional support within teacher-mentor post-observation meetings in language teacher education. Attending to these two aspects of mentoring practice can help teachers learn to navigate the emotional practice of teaching and he...

This research explores how refugee-background adult L2 learners with emerging literacy make meaning from multimodal assessment texts used in an English as a Second Language/English literacy program. The study investigates meaning-making from a social semiotic and multimodal design perspective, and r...

The paper seeks to gain insight into the nature of teaching strategic communication to US military members and Allies for outlining the learning needs of communication practitioners in a digitalized mediated world and for contributing to theorizing transdisciplinary practice.

Keywords: English teachers, Job satisfaction, nonEnglish teachers, teaching effectiveness

In my talk I will analyze the coverage of the same event by two different TV news shows with a focus on multimodal resources that are used to stage closeness or distance to the reported event. I will then relate the result of my analysis to key dimensions of journalistic culture.

This paper conceptualizes the ELT textbook as a multimodal cultural artifact. It uses an innovative framework that combines Social Semiotic Multimodality with CDA in order to throw a new light onto the Glocal ELT textbook.

Agglutinating structures are often predicted to be easier to learn than fusional structures due to compositional transparency. In a series of artificial language learning experiments, we test the importance of transparency and compositional structure as well as offline decomposition for the learnabi...

We will present and discuss data collected with the help of a standardized questionnaire measuring university students’ self-regulatory strategy use, their motivated learning behavior and their self-efficacy beliefs in various study abroad contexts in Europe.

Drawing upon the concepts of investment (Norton, 2010) and translingual practice (Canagarajah, 2013), this study examines the ways university students and graduates consolidate translingual competence after study abroad by applying previously-developed L2 literacy and identities in literacy practice...

This study aims to shed light on the potential influence that cognitive and affective individual difference variables may have on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) of L2 learners’ written texts. We administered diverse ID tests and questionnaires and correlated results with CAF measures ...

Research on differential effects of cognitive, social and instructional factors often confounds hierarchical relationships within 'container variables'. The Proximity Hypothesis posits that effects of distal factors are mediated and explained by proximal factors interacting directly with lea...

Our study investigates the interrelationships of emotions and motivation of secondary school EFL learners in Hungary. It seems that students are motivated and experience positive emotions in the EFL classroom; the role of pride and hope appear to be decisive for both motivated learning behavior and ...

This presentation provides an Asian perspective on the topic of neighbor languages (NL). The reasons why Taiwanese teenage students at both senior high school and college chose to enroll in courses of languages other than English were investigated through forty one-on-one interviews. Learners' reaso...

This presentation examines former pupils’ (n=24) perceptions of the effect of CLIL on their life courses. Most participants still used English actively and emphasized the role of CLIL in contributing to their positive English self-concept. The results imply that CLIL can work as one factor in guid...

This presentation looks at how social emotional factors at play in the interdisciplinary VE 'The new normality', between BA students of Social Psychology at the University of Valencia and BA students of European Languages and Cultures in different Spanish proficiency courses at the University of Gro...

This project explores inter-rater reliability and how this informs the teaching of writing in SLA environments. Based on qualitative and quantitative data collected in a context of high-stakes writing assessment - explicitly focusing on the rating scale currently in use - we were able to distil insi...

The present paper aims to explore changes in language practices within the Russian-German immigrant families in Germany after the introduction of digital technologies into everyday life and the impact of digital technologies on the family language policy.

This paper reports on research examining the influence of neoliberalism on language programs in universities through a case study of one language program, examining how teachers in these programs are marginalized and devalued, forming part of the academic precariat.

”Differentiated Instruction” is introduced as a teaching solution to address heterogeneity characteristics of learners in the Foreign Language Lesson. Based on the students “Learning Identity” appropriate differentiated measures are taken to achieve an effective grammar acquisition. Scientif...

During the presentation, the researcher will first review the categorization of English loanwords and present how English words are integrated into Chinese in Computer Mediated Communication by showing the examples. Then, the researcher will discuss the amount of borrowing in different fields to rev...

The present study examines how the interplay of fear and desire plays a role in the imagination of English learners’ future, and in the construction of accessible and imagined communities. The study employs a multimodal analytical framework to uncover how multiple modes are orchestrated to establi...

This paper investigates a dataset of news reports on the BLM demonstrations in June 2020, published on the website of a Swedish right-wing alternative newspaper. It is discussed how strategic deployment of specific lexico-grammatical choices results in a construal of threat, fear, and xenophobia.

This paper presents ongoing research in two universities in the Global South, in South Africa and Brazil. The research falls in the field of Linguistic Ethnography. I focus here on the linguistic landscapes of the universities, online and offline. My analysis of the data is guided by a Bakhtinian ap...

This study compares the diversity (number of types) and sophistication (PMI) of adjectival modifier (adjective + noun) and direct object (verb + noun) relations between oral and written tasks completed over a period of 21-months. In general, written tasks were found to be more phraseologically compl...

The National Core Curriculum for Pre-service English Teacher Education was recently introduced in Japan. Implementing it effectively demands concrete teaching models, syllabuses, and teaching methodology. The goals of our research are to gather comprehensive information regarding best practices and ...