Abstracts archive

A mixed methods study revealed that a diverse student population pursued English-language proofreading services to improve their writing and academic marks. The types of interventions reported suggest that students’ pursuit of third-party proofreading may reflect an ideologically based fear of bei...

This paper is part of a master's degree reasearch and aims to discuss narratives of black female teachers, emphasizing their teacher identities and their racial identities. Results indicate that racial awareness influences how the teachers relate to students and to the teaching process.

This study uncovers the types of raciolinguistic ideologies that mixed heritage individuals (MHIs) commonly encounter due to their racial appearance and linguistic practices. Thematic analysis of 293 MHIs primarily located in the U.S. indicate that MHIs often encounter exclusion because their racial...

This study examines the ideology of Neoliberal education manifested in Ratemyprofessors.com’s mission, rating criteria, and students’ comments. College education is commodified, from which students are expecting a high return rate for their time and money invested. Such ideology promotes a hosti...

The talk investigates the intra-action (Barad 2007) of humans, objects and technical apparatus as actants and co-creators in animation making. It posits that this assemblage generates an affective flow between all participating entities - human and non-human - and it explores the workings and conseq...

We aim at presenting two courses of Portuguese as an additional language for academic purposes at a higher education institution in Brazil as well as discussing the implications of a questionnaire done with foreign graduate students attending the courses in regards to their language practices. Our r...

In a design-based study, primary science teacher scaffolds students’ learning in biology in a multilingual classroom. Through talk-in-interaction and individual and collaborative writing, the students’ conceptual learning about ecology is supported. The teacher’s reflections concern the effect...

This presentation aims to contribute to the overall understanding of the importance of a new framework for interpreting acts of silence in classroom interaction. Utilizing the framework based on the theory of "pragmatic acts" (Mey, 2001) and "common ground" (Clark, 1996), the ambiguous and dynamic m...

Appropriate referential choice at re-introduction context in narratives requires integration of varying levels of information, and thus has been claimed to be the locus of transfer in bilinguals. We present a qualitative analysis of Japanese-English bilingual children’s Japanese narratives to eluc...

This paper examines social learning in the context of a university English course based on the principles of learner autonomy. This is achieved through a research approach to practice, employing ideas from autoethnography (Choi, 2017), Exploratory Practice (Allwright & Hanks, 2009) and reflectiv...

There is an extensive literature in the social and natural sciences that outlines biases and "errors" in the understanding of causal powers. However, there is less work on how (applied) linguists themselves fall into various "traps" when trying to assign cause and consequence to various linguistic p...

This paper intends to to analyze race and gender performativity in the advertising campaign on racism and to investigate the performative effects of this campaign on comments posted on the “SUS without Racism” Facebook page. To this end, it intertwines perspectives of Indisciplinary Applied Ling...

In this paper we will analyze the ways in which community arts and sociolinguists achieve their common goals in an action research project. Our research shows that sociolinguistically informed art sessions can create a space where the institutional monolingual norm is overcome, and the children embr...

We will shed some light on the processes and mechanisms involved in the development of L3 speech perception. More specifically, we will analyse the adaptive processes by which multilinguals accommodate new features and modify the existing ones.

This paper illustrates the interactive structure of L2 writing conferences in several learner–tutor pairs who often engaged in collaborative writing to develop the learner texts further. In particular, it explores the role or functions of reading aloud, thinking aloud and text-aloud in relation to...

Drawing on sociocultural theory, this paper presents preliminary findings from a non-interventional classroom observation PhD study of reading circles with young adult Swedish learners of English as a Second Language, aiming to understand how small-group conversations about novels in the target lang...

This conversation analytic study explores the relationship between recipient affiliation and interactional competence by examining how participants of different L2 proficiencies orient to the projected expectations of the speaker and mobilize responding actions that endorse the speaker's conveyed st...

The lecture will discuss how problematic it is for a discourse culture to subsume constructive criticism under Hate Speech.

Research into the regulation and performance of teacher emotions is frequently conducted through interviews and surveys; however, less commonly employed is the stimulated recall methodology, through which participants are observed teaching and asked to reflect on their thought processes during class...

Ironically, individual differences (ID) research in SLA often refers to differences within a sample, not an individual. Complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) re-imagines the meaning of individual differences in ways that complement, supplement, and challenge traditional approaches to ID variables. S...

Exploration of Chinese L2 learners' output challenges regarding different learning contexts

This paper addresses two main questions: How do companies use different modes to represent gender, race and sexual diversity issues? And how can all these modes be handled analytically? For that purpose, twenty corporate websites, selected on criteria of excellence, international scope and type of b...

Analyzing three fusion food-centric episodes of an American documentary-style reality TV cooking show, I demonstrate how linguistic and multimodal strategies—ingredient descriptions (especially regarding taste), non-English word pronunciations, references to family members, place-centric narrative...

This paper addresses symbolic inequality (Zhu & Kramsch, 2016) through investigating translanguaging pedagogy as boundary-making/ unmaking counter-discourse. This paper uses nexus analysis (Scollons, 2004) to ethnographically research on the Multimodalities-Entextualisation Cycle (MEC) (Lin, 201...

The presentation will discuss students´ motivational orientations and current methodological challenges in CLIL classrooms in Spain. It will report on the results from a classroom-based study investigating the relationship between the lexical difficulty of instructional materials, learners´ readin...

Reading to write, writing to read" is an elective course that is being introduced with the aim of encouraging university students to read for pleasure and to become more actively engaged with texts by developing their creative writing skills."

Since the scope of language policy has expanded beyond its once exclusive focus on top-down structural forces, our analyses of policy texts should embrace complexity, dynamicity and hybridity and shift toward 'ethnography of text' focussing on how fragments of policy texts are imbued with context-sp...

This study explores an immersion teacher professional development experience centered on analyzing and redesigning secondary Spanish immersion instructional materials to include a language focus. Analysis indicated that participants teachers developed content and language knowledge for teaching, but...

Reflection is necessary for the language learner to promote language awareness and it is implemented by reflective dialogue which is an approach to confront the learner’s own experiences and beliefs. This presentation explores how reflective dialogue can affect learner autonomy by introducing two ...

This study focuses on the link between Turkish language teaching programs for international students who are constructed as bridges between Turkey and their homeland, the ways norms and discourses emerging in language classrooms and relevant spaces construe belonging if embr...