Abstracts archive

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...

Language anxiety is a dynamic individual difference forming part of an interconnected, fluctuating system that shifts unpredictably over time and multiple time scales and is effected by perturbations that create a new system based on the previous. Such dynamism implicates necessary changes in both r...

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 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 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...

In this paper we consider the theoretical affordances of producing collaborative research into language diversity with young people using the creative arts. We consider a project, 'Multilingual Streets', which focuses on linguistic landscapes. We suggest that the arts offer new lenses to understand ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This study adopts the Teaching and Learning Cycle for L2 writing classes to influence learners’ understanding of the target texts’ social and communicative purposes. I will summarise the functions of the original TLC. Then, I will explore how EFL learners’ writing skills change through the mod...

This prime aim of this opening talk is to argue that the relationship between second language acquisition (SLA) and language testing (LT) is a bilateral commitment with reciprocal interests and benefits. [THE SYMPOSIUM TIMETABLE CAN BE FOUND HERE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KowrRBeCwTTFEiAUkAO...

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...

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...

Shadowing is a technique for enhancing L2 acquisition, in which learners repeat speech aloud, while listening attentively to the incoming speech. Of the four effects of shadowing (i.e. input, practice, output, and monitoring) proposed by Kadota (2019), my focus here is on input and output effects in...

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 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...

In this presentation, we ask what might be involved in undertaking an analysis of the language assemblage. 

This study explores the interaction between Japanese EFL learners' use of classroom silence and teacher talk in Japanese EFL contexts. Adopting conversational analysis, it specifically examines the extent to which learner silence can be utilised as an interactional space scaffolded by teacher talk i...

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...

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 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...