Abstracts archive

The example of the project #OurWords shows the potential of OER for language teaching. The project will create a free database and app for language acquisition that is oriented towards the interests of the students and offers various access options so that students with a need for support can also b...

This paper explores moments of improvisation in creative writing workshops with 11-12 year old children by using ethnographic fieldnotes, audio recordings, creative texts, and research interviews to consider the coming together of the material, affective, social, modal, cultural, and environmental e...

This presentation describes the CLIL approach taken in undergraduate English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses at a Sino-US joint venture university in China. Language serves as the content in a course designed to help freshmen meet the challenges of EMI in the liberal arts curriculum.

We will be describing the added value of CLIL experiences from a university that has the mission to provide international and professional education in areas of critical importance to a rapidly changing world. We will address practice in this particular context (programmatic synergies, different sta...

In this presentation we argue that teacher-researcher collaborations hold the promise of embracing translanguaging pedagogies in TESOL classrooms. We propose a conceptual framework to call for both parties to develop translanguaging co-stances, and make translanguaging co-designs and co-shifts. We t...

Initial results from the pre-test of a largescale longitudinal study of English and Swedish vocabulary knowledge among students in Swedish middle school are reported. The results are compared between CLIL and non-CLIL students, and between different CLIL groups as the way CLIL is implemented varies ...

This paper reports the practice of a C1-level English for Science and Technology CLIL course at a Chinese university. Drawing on the pluriliteracies model, it explores the practice and efficacy of a genre-based pedagogy backed up by solid linguistic theory that integrates all the 4Cs and its implica...

This paper presents findings of a classroom-based investigation into the professional development paths of five pre-service English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers, as they learned how to translate concepts of plurilingualism and plurilingual education studied at University into their situated ...

Scientific abstracts written by Japanese EFL science majors were compared with the abstracts appeared in published research articles, and we found that EFL students used metadiscourse markers to connect concrete ideas more often and that they were hesitant to use metadiscourse markers to connect abs...

This mixed-method project aimed at reviewing EFL teacher training policies through the analysis of 3 corpora using keywords-in-context through Nvivo12. Results suggest discrepancies in the emphases given to different areas in the curriculum while showing evidence of neoliberal ideologies through the...

While governments in Latin America position English as "the" language to learn across educational systems, the authors elaborate on a series of projects that incorporate a decolonial approach to interculturality in language teaching and learning in Colombia and intend to promote respect for sociolin...

A genre-based pedagogy that exploits the connections between reading and writing is likely to improve aforementioned skills, and genre knowledge and awareness. This is tested by randomly assigning 12 grade 10 classes to either column or news article lesson series and subsequently assess reading and ...

This paper presents a holistic model for multilingualism in education that has been implemented in several Dutch educational projects. Within these projects multilingual activities are developed and implemented in co-construction between researchers, teachers and students. These activities aim to in...

The aim of the presentation is to bring to the foreground the messages students want to put forward. After gathering and intepreting them several conclusions on school culture and socioeconomic factors will be presented and discussed.

This paper reports on a longitudinal study on the effects of reading-while-listening, reading with textual input enhancement (i.e. underlining), and reading-while-listening plus textual input enhancement on Vietnamese pre-intermediate EFL learners' acquisition of collocations.

This presentation explores educational change by examining how a group of language teachers implemented blended learning at a Colombian university. I discuss, in particular, the experiences of four teacher leaders responsible for implementing the change and suggest implications for the professional ...

How can we make plurilingual competence more tangible and empower learners as participants in ‘glocal’ communities? This talk discusses the development and piloting of an E-portfolio and platform for plurilingual action-oriented learning, as a feature of LINCDIRE (LINguistic and Cultural DIversi...

English as a lingua franca (ELF), syntactic alignment, lexical alignment, corpus study

This small-scale qualitative study explores the role multilingualism plays in in the therapeutic experience of refugee torture survivors, within a supportive community. Fifteen community members were interviewed. The findings reveal that using English, a later-learned language for all of the intervi...

EFL textbooks carry instructional content as well as principles for instruction. In this paper I present a modified version of Bernstein's model of pedagogic discourse used to interpret the underlying power and control relations during the enactment of an EFL listening textbook in a university conte...

This featured presentation begins with a systematic review of published CDST research in the Chinese context and identifies possible future directions. Publications in both international journals and Chinese journals are compared and contrasted in terms of developmental trends, topic distribution, r...

Globalization led to an increase in the linguistic diversity of students in higher education, including domestic language minority speakers (LMS). We will look at the predictive value of academic language proficiency of LMS in relation to other demographic and educational background factors and cons...

We have developed a culturally appropriate vocabulary test specifically for young Chinese learners of English. We will discuss the development process and present the full set of results from two field tests with several hundred participants, including an analysis of the relationship proficiency lev...

My study investigated the usage, role and perceived relevance of English language entry requirements for English-medium programmes at higher education level in Germany. Websites of over four hundred German universities and polytechnics were analysed; students and programme leaders were surveyed as w...

This talk aims at conceptualizing much-needed interventions into teacher education that empower foreign language teachers for queering their classroom practices. It will present a ‘docking-station’ of texts and tasks that teachers can use to diversify their teaching, and to end the silencing of ...

The contribution presents the course concept of an intercomprehension course for Romance languages offered at the Language Centre of the University of Salzburg. The primary aim of the course is the construction of (receptive) plurilingual and pluricultural competencies.

This paper is inspired and motivated by emerging scholarship (Guilherme & de Souza, 2019; Macedo, 2019; Phipps, 2019; Pennycook & Makoni, 2019, among others) inviting language and culture education practitioners to question the ideologies underpinning how we think and frame our practice and ...

Two separate lines of research have considered how bilingualism might protect older adults against cognitive and neural decline and what consequences are observed when older adults learn a new language. Here we bring these together to ask how cognitive control and language regulation processes funct...

This presentation considers the linguistic patterns found in marketing materials at a Canadian university. This survey looked for references to neoliberal language of market freedom, expediency, and economic mobility. These were then mapped onto ways that these linguistic forms reproduce a commodity...

This paper recounts a sociocultural inquiry into bilingual students’ self-regulated strategic learning of language and subject content, through which we interpreted how and why the students appropriated resources strategically for self-regulated learning. It contends that sociocultural perspective...

This presentation will offer an overview of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA) activities and scientific areas of AESLA with a focus on the possible connections with the goals of AIALA, as can be the creation of collaborative research networks with scholars from the other member ass...

Summary This study is part of my PhD dissertation that will be carried out in Kosovo, in April 2020. Prior to the main study a pilot study is planned to be conducted in January-February 2020.

This talk examines perceptions of decoloniality in African linguistics, as taught inside and outside of Africa. Building on Riedel and de Vos (2018), we explore a range of issues related to awareness of colonial pasts and their effects on contemporary societies at universities teaching African lingu...

This presentation outlines a conceptual model for the study of agency in language policy and planning (LPP) informed by social realist theory, and grounded in empirical research conducted in various national contexts.

Insights from 468 migrants revealed the emotional attachment to the first language as intensifying their feelings of difference when using the local language in emotional conversations. Participants' self-perceptions varied from a sense of detachment to liberation depending on the emotion being expr...

This paper deepens our understanding of affective variables in the (foreign) language class by presenting the findings of a web-based survey study on perceived enjoyment of English (foreign language) and German (first language) classes. Data from 754 secondary- and tertiary-level students in the Ger...

I report on how teacher candidates used cultural excavation activities to reflect upon a study abroad experience in Peru and the role of these activities in developing intercultural competence. Findings show movement towards more ethnorelative stances, demonstrating cultural excavation as a powerful...

Without taking the linguistic reality of named languages for granted, what does 'English' mean in the context of adult ESOL? This project seeks to interrogate this issue by analyzing recurrent discourse patterns and meta-linguistic/pragmatic commentary in two classrooms, exploring teachers' linguist...

This paper explores gendered ethnicities in Polynesia through discourses about overweight bodies. Various forms of compliance and of resistance turn bodies into sites of politicized conflicts, as well as into potential “spaces of otherwise” that allow an expression of indigeneity which would coi...

Along a number of samples from language classrooms in different contexts, this paper will focus on the question of how micro-analytic informed research can be applied to the very teaching of interactional awareness and interactional competences to future language teachers.

The paper argues for the need to include an increased focus on language variation and Critical Language Awareness in Mother Tongue Instruction in Sweden, using an additive expansion-oriented pedagogy (Leeman 2018). Currently, these perspectives are largely lacking in MTI. The aim is to expand studen...

In a well-known study of adult ESL learners, Goh (2000) found that most L2 listening problems were related to the ‘perception’ stage of the process. With a different population – UK lower-intermediate school children learning French and Spanish – the findings of a pilot replication study sho...

This 3-year longitudinal study tracked 3 Chinese EFL undergraduates and analyzed the collected data through CDST techniques, including min-max graphs and Monte-Carlo analyses. Our results confirm flux developmental processes of L2 listening, depict divergent patterns of intra-individual variability ...

This action research reflects the teacher-researcher’s curriculum of Workplace English and reconstructs a pedagogy for English for Occupational Purposes. Data was gathered from 17 interviews, teaching logs, and teaching evaluation. The findings are hoped to shed light on the learner-centered appro...

In this study we address two questions: 1. What knowledge is used by students in L1 (Dutch) grammar tasks and 2. To what extent is their L1 knowledge transferable to their L2 (English and German)?

In this paper, we would like to present Virgínia Faria Gersão and her grammar, A Gramática das Criancinhas, written in a very original way with the purpose of facilitating the students’ learning.

We present a person-centred approach to informal mobile language learning. After explicating theoretical principles and methodological decisions, we will illustrate with an empirical study that examined L2 learners’ learning experiences afforded by their selective use of varied mobile technologies...

This linguistic ethnographic study addresses two Ugandan women living in Istanbul as skilled migrants. The analyses of the participants' everyday language practices in the city aim to show how these two women construct and negotiate their identities as skilled migrants in Istanbul through their (non...

How can writing instructors develop their learner’s syntactic complexity in the L2 classroom? The researcher used a mixed methods design to examine the effects of three types of tasks on the development of complexity. The results indicated that tasks that focus learners’ attention on syntactic a...

This paper will report the experiences of 36 trainee teacher students at a UK based University engaging with a variety of activities during an intensive telecollaboration English for Academic purposes (EAP) training course on Moodle.

To support preschool teachers with applying the new law that declared multilingual early education mandatory in Luxembourg, we offered a professional development course in translanguaging pedagogy over the course of 6 months. The results from teacher questionnaires and focus groups show that there h...

This study reviews studies between 2010 and 2020 to examine screencast second language written corrective feedback under the framework of Best Practices and the International Society for Technology in Education standards to reconceptualize the notion of e-feedback and refine the best practice in the...

In this paper I analyze a group of first graders' multimodal texts about spring. In their learning to read they use the STL+ program where writing on iPads is the starting point for reading. My main interest is to analyze the students’ verbal and visual texts – what does the verbal text communic...

This study investigates the core elements of which constitute the expected standards of ELF in international communities. Quantitatively, two online surveys were conducted with one hundred participants of both Japanese and non-Japanese who are related to international communities; and qualitatively,...

This study reports a US writing center tutor’s interventions in an L2 doctoral student’s dissertation. Analysis of tutoring transcripts, interviews, and documents revealed the tutor’s systematic practice of constructing the tutee’s drafts through oral dictation. Findings suggest a need for d...

In this study we aimed to examine the challenges faced by deaf students, professors, Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) interpreters and staff, starting from the process of democratizing access to higher education and focusing, particularly, on the insertion and participation of deaf students in acade...

Listeners make negative evaluations of non-native accents. We show that phonetic perception and social evaluations improve when L2 speakers use co-speech hand gestures (emblems), even if non-native accents themselves stay the same. This suggests that in cross-cultural communication, more attention s...

The current study investigates access patterns to English media, particularly audiovisual input, among Italian university students. It is based on a questionnaire responded to by 572 participants and is the follow-up of a previous survey carried out in 2016 (Pavesi, Ghia 2020). Results point to a st...

The current study presents age and gender differences in the production of Greek vowels. The vowel productions of 20 males and 20 females, aged between 18 and 50 and 20 children, 10 boys and 10 girls, aged between 8 and 10 were analysed.

The present study investigates whether Chinese immigrant workers in Spain are perceived as polite as they intend to be by L1 Spanish speakers when producing requests in Spanish and, if not, whether intonation might be responsible for these communicative misunderstandings.

This contribution presents the "Language Village" as an empirically valid method and didactic approach for activating linguistic repertoires of multilingual secondary students, while not only integrating all schooling languages but also other foreign and heritage languages in tasks, material and int...

The featured talk will present premises of a research-based framework of inclusive practices in language teaching/learning scenarios. Based on the premise that learner diversity functions as an asset in language classrooms, the review of research is going to address challenges of inclusive practices...

This presentation will explore the ethical challenges faced by administrative support staff in negotiating their communicative practices at an internationalising Swedish university. The study presented promises to contribute towards debate surrounding language planning for internationalising Higher ...

The core of dietetic treatment of elderly clients with malnutrition is stimulating them to eat better. Although dietetic counselling complements only providing oral nutritional supplements, the overall effectiveness of dietary treatment remains limited. In this study, effects of dietetic counselling...

Affect is a highly contested term extending beyond “emotions”. This talk focuses on affective dimensions experienced by, and subsequently managed by multilingual students. The premise is that with knowledge of affective learning strategies, stakeholders from policy developers to teachers can tai...

In our paper, we propose to study a tandem language learning environment through desktop videoconferencing, or teletandem (Telles, 2009) for French and Chinese as foreign languages. Our study aims to understand how, through the videoconferencing environment, interlocutors position themselves and the...

IDLE-the Informal Digital Learning of English-has proven to be a very powerful practice for learning English outside of classroom instruction. What does this mean for traditional TESOL approaches, given the rise of EMI programs internationally? This presentation suggests new models of English educat...

Reflexivity is approached though a model of metadiscourse, focusing on the discourse itself (metalinguistic function), the writer-speaker (expressive function) and the real or imagined audience (directive function). The model is applied to a net-based teaching context and students’ synchronous (N=...

The aim of the paper is to present how working with texts of migration literature in FL classes can stimulate the work towards the democratic culture through the reflection on a language as an instrument of social inclusion and exclusion, of power and prestige.

The presentation offers analyses of formulating practices in which nonnative students characterize or recast what was said in the previous turn(s) by their teacher, typically but not limited with 'so you are saying...' These practices offer insight into how students clarify lesson contents, infer wh...

This study presents a qualitative study on the argumentative strategies that both students and the teacher employ to justify, legitimise or contest the use of plurilingual teaching and learning practices during the implementation of a course in English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

This paper focuses on the agentive meaning-making role that teachers hold in enacting language policies in Maldivian schools. Drawing on data from curriculum documents, teacher surveys and interviews, I present how teachers’ ideologies about language and language teaching impact how they interpret...

Diagnostic tests show deficiencies in the basic decoding and coding abilities of new arrivals, even after years of learning Swedish. The traditional view on pronunciation training needs to be expanded towards development of the code level abilities in reading, writing, listening and speaking.

The global political climate has created an unprecedented influx of refugees entering Canada and Canadian schools. This study explores the complex relationship between refugee families and their childrens’ schools, exploring both informal and formal ways to optimize parent-teacher collaboration, a...

In this session we will describe a service-learning experience carried out by volunteer university students. The teaching of languages in higher education should contribute to the integral development of students and democratic societies. The theoretical framework, the service learning experience it...

This study aims to reveal how the participant accommodates his speech, interactional resources he deploys, and his motives for exhibiting (non-)accommodative behavior. First, 5 hours of naturally-occurring dyadic interaction was transcribed and analyzed. Then, a semi-structured interview was conduct...

The verbal materials consider as mainstream of communication for a long time. However, non-verbal communication starts to speak eloquently in our life. This study examines the potential of multimodal teaching methods and materials in classroom. That provides us a clue to make more useful strategy fo...

How did women learn Ancient Greek in the Renaissance? My paper will address this question by discussing two Greek grammar books written for Ippolita Sforza, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Milan Francesco I Sforza and a highly intelligent woman who produced numerous Latin letters, orations, and p...

This talk presents the Holi-Frysk 2.0 project, in which an intervention is developed, aiming to create more positive attitudes from teachers and pupils in secondary education towards Frisian and multilingualism. We will present examples of activities, teachers' experiences and a first look at the ef...

This paper presents a case study of linguistic identities within a Korean / Gaelic / English-speaking family, drawn from a larger study of isolated intermarried families in regional areas of NSW, Australia. The connection between parental linguistic identity and family language policy is explored.

This presentation addresses a longitudinal study on the pedagogy of augmented reality (AR) implementation in English second-language (ESL) classrooms. The presenter discusses the unique attributes of AR technology that support ESL teacher instruction and students’ learning. Study findings help rev...

Graduates from Chinese-medium schools in Hong Kong often have lower competence in English and are disadvantaged in schooling and the labour market. This narrative inquiry traces the socio-academic trajectory of a CMI school graduate in local and overseas EMI higher education and relevant consequence...

This paper introduces a Personalised Autonomous (PA) model as a new approach to addressing diverse language learning needs of international sojourners in higher education. It discusses its pedagogical efficacy based on both qualitative and quantitative data collected from more than 1,000 students fr...

The purpose of this study is to investigate a method of giving feedback on essay writing in order to focus students' attention on logicality. Students' comments on using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) for writing an essay need to be analyzed to examine whether students are paying attention...

When a robot enters a foreign language classroom, the learning situation changes. We will analyze the kind of turn-taking that takes place and how actions and sequences are organized. We also pay attention to how children respond to the robot and how they seek help from the teacher.

This presentation explores the textual transformations occurred in the bilingual adaptation of Cambridge English Readers in China, and discusses 1) the change of view of foreign language learning behind the adaptation and 2) implications for Chinese learners of English.

Using a stylistic method of analysis, we determined how student and (semi-)professional writers linguistically realize the communicative purposes of the genre literary book review. We will show that such stylistic descriptions cannot only reveal how written language develops, but also which concepts...

Animating the experiences of TEFL/SL graduate international students at a Canadian university with new materialities concepts, we seek an understanding of agentive navigation of pedagogical ecologies as a double becoming (Massumi, 2015, p. 124). We offer possibilities for de-territorializing the fie...

Question of how research articles in different languages are related to each other in the process of knowledge production has received little research attention. I address this question and empirically focus on citation practices of experienced scholars. I use ‘paired analysis’ as a particular a...

We focus on migrants' opportunities to develop and utilize their field-specific language resources in practical training. Some participants of our ethnographic study found their access to meaningful tasks and L2 resources to be too limited. Language awareness should thus be an integral part of super...

Through longitudinal close analysis of Whatsapp group chat messages, this study reports changes in how EFL students accomplish requests overtime. The findings suggest that changes are both due to students' evolving linguistic repertoires and to an increased entitlement to make the requests.

Becoming successful strategic readers in EFLL is a true challenge for children. Our study indicates that although there is a statistically significant difference in reading results in relation to the use of some comprehension strategies, young learners are not fully aware of a range of strategies an...

This presentation will provide an intuitive and accessible framework for bridging the personal and professional benefits of action research with the illustrative power of CA.

This presentation describes the adaptation process of multiple sign language development assessment instruments for Finnish Sign Language. Additionally, we will explain how the teacher were trained to use the assessment instruments and how the large data on children acquiring FinSL was collected in ...

Adequately responding to linguistic diversity in the classroom is imperative in European school contexts. The intervention study combined insights from multilingual education and L2 motivational research and addressed diversity in a resource-oriented way. The data are promising and indicate a positi...

This paper focuses on HL speakers’ academic writing and will discuss measures of literacy as a function of cross-linguistic influence and educational background. The need to write academic texts in Spanish is growing as a part of higher education (e.g. Teacher education). The results highlight the...

Advocacy for minoritized languages has tended to focus on a critical deconstruction paradigm – critiquing post-colonial language policies for excluding those languages from higher domains in favor of inherited colonial languages, but not offering alternative policies to remedy the situation. In co...

In this paper we focus on the lived and affective realities of children’s engagement with language and schooling by exploring everyday understandings of spelling. We draw on co-produced film data from a research project that took place in an elementary school in the North of the UK.

Bridging the gap between language learning in the classroom and at the museum

This paper explores the policy-making process of "Languages Connect - Ireland's Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017-2026" by focusing on the way agents wield the meaning of language policy ideas and the way power relations are manifested behind interactive processes of ideational power....