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Today, most of deaf children are studying in a mainstream school, which has created new challenges in organizing bilingual teaching (spoken + signed language together). The corpus can serve as a tool for accessing sign language teaching. A digital learning environment develops educational materials ...

A diagnostic test of pronunciation is developed for L2 learners of Japanese and administered to American and Chinese learners of Japanese. Results showed that Chinse students outperformed American students for almost all measures, especially rhythm and accent perception, and production errors on rhy...

I will present the results of a longitudinal study on L2 Italian verbal morphosyntax in low/non-literate learners involving the collection of adult migrants' speech in different stages of their acquisition. Data analysis allows us to verify the degree at which existing descriptions on L2 Italian als...

Using a theoretical framework combining complex systems theory with sociocultural theory and the theory of multimodal communication, this presentation shows how the new online technologies are having a disruptive effect on the traditional language classroom and discusses the implications of this pha...

8From Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) perspective, this learner corpus-based study tracks the development of syntactic complexity in EFL learners' writing in 6-semester longitudinal span. The findings offer empirical evidence for the explanatory power of DST in the explanation of the dynamic features i...

The internship course of an English Department in Taiwan provided students real-life work experience before graduation. The diverse internship jobs included English teachers in language institutes, workers in service industries, interns in trading or technology companies, receptionists in internatio...

Research project demonstrates the benefits of integrating the multimedia presentations for improving students' learning autonomy, as well as language, collaborative and digital literacy skills.

This paper presents a linguistic ethnographic study focusing on an Iranian lifestyle migrant family living in Istanbul. Data from microethnographic analyses will report on the family’s linguistic practices in Persian, Turkish, and English and how they approach language policy in a domestic setting...

Explicit instruction in lexical units, particularly in academic writing courses via corpus-based learning, is of critical import to learners’ language proficiency. This session presents the results of a study on the effectiveness of COCA to improve students’ lexical collocation competence and ac...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of formative feedback delivered via a social Q&A online platform on EFL writers' (n=120) performance and motivation, as well as to explore their perceptions towards the use of the platform in the English-Medium Instruction (EMI) classroom....

The landscape of the ELT industry is changing with intensifying competition between English schools or programs in ‘native’ and 'non-native' English speaking countries. This paper examines how and to what extent the discourse of language immersion is marketed by ELT schools in Baguio City, Phili...

The present study explores the impact of a short-term study abroad experience in a multilingual region on students’ general interest in multilingualism and the development of a multilingual self. Qualitative data reveal that students maintain only an elementary understanding of multilingualism but...

This longitudinal production study tracks the changes in formant values for the vowels of L2 and L3. The study was conducted on a group of 14 Polish adolescent multilinguals and shows that L3 vowels changed in quality over the first year of acquisition, while the L2 vowels remained the same.

Contemporary understandings of languages learning within a multilingual and intercultural orientation recognise the crucial role of reflection and reflexivity in developing the capability to communicate where there is no shared cultural framing. This paper draws on studies with teachers to investiga...

Throughout their careers teachers individually develop their Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). This PCK often remains unconscious or ‘tacit’. The lesson study professionalization approach provides a framework for becoming aware of it, discussing it in a team context, and in this way jointly c...

This study examined whether directing participants’ attention to different aspects of the content (i.e., semantic, syntactic, or pragmatic) during content shadowing would influence the improvement of their phonological processing skills.

This longitudinal study examines the change in vowel reduction in L2 English under the influence of L3 training. The participants including 10 university students, some with vowel-reducing L3 German, and some with non-reducing L3 French, are compared for vowel reduction in their L2 English performan...

Pre-task planning refers to the planning activity carried out before commencing a task. The present study by using the technique of keystroke logging investigates the effect of pre-task planning on the process features of second language writing.

Identifying the factors that affect the effectiveness of academic writing is an important step in improving the efficiency of teaching writing. This study explored the influence of EFL proficiency and gender on writing processes and text quality using Keystroke. Using Keystroke contributed in broade...

The present study explored the effect of input mode on the implicit learning of semantic distinction of articles. 65 participants were exposed to large amount of article-noun collocations  with different input modes. Results indicated that input combining the verbal  and nonverbal mode fac...

In this paper, multimodal CA is used to demonstrate how requests by adult second language (L2) users with emergent literacy are formulated as 'complex multimodal Gestalts', consisting typically of deictic or depictive gestures, in the situations where the participants' shared linguistic resources ar...

This paper studies the development of the operational mechanism of a foreign language teachers on-line professional learning community(TOPLC) through 4 years. The study finds the upgraded mechanism of the community is more main participating member-centred, the interaction in it more social, and the...

This paper takes an epistemological perspective on differences in language teaching research in English and French as evidenced in a small collection of key terms in L2 studies and la didactique des langues. For each term, the paper briefly retraces historical differences and suggests ways of bridgi...

This study employs CDST approaches to investigate Chinese EFL students' stance construction in their academic writing over 20-week span. The analysis shows great fluctuations and notable trend along the developmental trajectories of students' stance construction, thus can be useful in enhancing stud...

Our pilot study examined the linguistic, cognitive, and mental effects of brief but intensive foreign language learning on Dutch healthy seniors by uniquely combining behavioral and neural testing. Results showed that healthy older adults can quickly achieve vocabulary learning through an online for...

The current study has established a strong link between task takers' critical thinking ability and their speaking performances by modelling a devised spoken discourse analysis.

Metaphors are deemed to have rhetorical potential. In what way and to what extent they affect argumentative discourse is, however, not entirely clear. This presentation discusses the results of an empirical study on the effect of the metaphor presence on the evaluation of sound and fallacious argume...

We present the findings of a novel parent-focused language intervention aimed at increasing parents’ language supporting strategies in their speech to children. Parents in the intervention group received a programme through a shared wordless picture book activity. Comparisons between pre and post-...

This study investigated the effects of explicit and implicit discourse marker instruction on Japanese EFL learners' speech. The results of the data analysis suggest that the variety of discourse markers used by learners may be increased after explicit feedback, although the instruction has a limited...

A reading/writing course design and materials for tertiary-level EAP learners will be shared. Student outcomes will demonstrate how the course’s scaffolded activities enabled students to recycle reading language in their own writing, advancing their critical and logical thinking skills as well as ...