Abstracts archive

This study investigates L2 learners’ language developmental patterns in oral and written modalities on the basis of processability theory. Similarities and differences in L2 learners’ oral and written production were analyzed in terms of the emergence and accuracy of morphosyntactic structures.

This study investigates the academic socialization experience of eight multilingual students studying abroad in China. It addresses how social networks are constructed and negotiated by L2 learners and examines their impacts on academic socialization in the local community.

This study examined beliefs about the research-pedagogy link by graduate students, full-time L2 instructors, and language program directors at Ivy League universities. Results indicated that participants held different beliefs depending on their roles, with language program directors holding the mos...

This study replicates Lowie and Verspoor (2019) with different subjects. We found that motivation, aptitude, and working memory do not predict L2 writing proficiency, but variability during development is a robust predictor for L2 writing proficiency. We concluded that variability is an important so...

This presentation discusses how different policies on EMI result in differing educational practices and environments, which impact on students’ perceptions of the nature of the shared medium, English, and their beliefs in monolingual NES norms and constraints of them as well as their understanding...

I will draw on results of research into perceptions and use of a self-access centre in Japan from a self-determination theory point of view. I suggest ways in which learning advisors might attend to the three basic psychological needs of competence and relatedness, and autonomy in advising sessions.

This talk discusses SA experiences of studying in China during and post-SA.

The aim of this paper is to investigate ways that a group of teachers interpret and explain their role in relation to establish continuity between communicative registers in grade 4-9 science classrooms. Five themes were discerned: no recognition, dichotomy, complementary relations, continuum and es...

Our study examines video-mediated post-observation conferences emerging as a fundamental support for evidence-based reflective practices in teacher education. The analysis reveals that fluctuations in epistemic (a)symmetries between mentor and trainees serve as a catalyst for the progression of refl...

This presentation documents how the inclusion of dynamicity affords new learning and development opportunities beyond an achievement assessment purpose. Students’ verbalizations inform teachers on individual second language developmental process and students' envision and experimentation of expand...

A new multilingual education policy, driven by research, is being promoted in Israel. Results of two studies and their contribution to the new policy are addressed in this presentation, emphasizing the essential role of empirical studies in shaping valid language policies.

The paper outlines the potential effects of streaming on inequity in the context of bilingual education in Madrid. The study presents ethnographic data gathered mainly from interviews with key stakeholders on students’ transition from primary to secondary and their placement in one of two CLIL str...

This paper presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of technicality in CLIL and non-CLIL biology lessons. It aims to demonstrate that even in languages as closely related as English and German, technicality can be an issue, and has implications for how we teach biology in English and German.

The main objective of this study is to shed light on three works that show the influence of women in the history of French language learning and teaching in the 17th-18th centuries.

This paper makes use of drawings to examine how Brazilian student teachers imagine EFL teaching before implementing language materials for the first time. By adopting a narrative perspective on teacher identity, it explores how the interplay between their past as pupils and present as student teache...

In this presentation, I suggest that strict language allocation in bilingual programs may – perhaps unwittingly – encourage transmissive, rather than student-centred learning. Data are drawn from a longitudinal study investigating a whole-school Japanese-English primary bilingual program in Aust...

In the «fide» system, the teachers are asked to negotiate the course contents with their participant groups, responding to their current language needs. The approach is scenario-based, and one of the teachers’ resources is a database of about 120 scenarios with detailed competence descriptors.

On the basis of a sociolinguistically oriented and ecolinguistically inspired approach, the talk presents webinars on the teaching of Low German. We assume that, in addition to school lessons, a holistically oriented teaching of the regional language adressing various New Speakers (Jaffe 2015) with ...

This paper argues that public service interpreters are indispensable for the implementation of at least three United Nations sustainable goals. A fourth sustainable goal relates to decent work and quality jobs, significant issues for public service interpreters in many countries. Can we draw on the ...

In increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse EAL classrooms, the use of the students' mother tongue(s) can provide students with valuable accoutrements that would optimize pedagogy. This presentation discusses how integrating the students' mother tongues in the classroom can contribute towa...

The paper provides an overview of studies of self-regulation in SLA, with special emphasis on those investigating the role of self-regulatory capacity in study abroad contexts. The overview serves as a basis for considering future research directions and suggesting how empirical evidence can enhance...

The verbal scaffolding within the classroom discourse does not go in a linear way. Teacher questions are a powerful tool for scaffolding. They allow monitoring learners' level of knowledge, directing and controlling the discourse development. They may indicate the change occurring in the learners' c...

This presentation reports studies of infants at risk of language delay due to low socio-economic status or deafness, and provides evidence regarding 1) the mechanisms of early language development 2) the feasibility and acceptability of caregiver interventions and 3) the efficacy of such interventio...

This presentation addresses the interpretational strengths of three phenomenological theories (AT, CDST, TEA) for illuminating data collected during a teacher motivation study at a high school EFL classroom in Beijing. By focusing on mediation (AT), system changes (CDST), and bifurcation points (TEA...

This paper will present lessons learned and recommendations from the Shared Course Initiative, a distance collaboration at Columbia, Cornell, and Yale Universities in the United States that stabilizes and strengthens LCTL offerings and fosters pedagogical innovation in a 3-site community of practice...

It is not yet clear whether third-age language learning is more effective and enjoyable in mixed-age or homogenous classes. Our results suggest that mixed-age classes are well tolerated by both students and teachers, although they do pose higher demands on teacher flexibility in teaching approaches ...

This paper intends to show that language planning in Colombia has followed patterns of exclusion and marginalization towards minority groups. The language policies adopted during the Spanish colonization have been followed, enhanced, fostered and legitimized during the different history periods of o...

This presentation aims at describing and discussing a virtual exchange environment designed through three continents to support the learning and collaborative activities of student-teachers from Brazil, Spain, France and Taiwan. Content analysis of the students’ experience journals will be present...

This paper examines the use of derogatory prefixes and productive compounding as a linguistic vehicle of hate speech in German social media (Twitter and Facebook), with a special focus on ethnic and religious minorities. The morphological mechanisms discussed include slur expansion, stereotype-based...

In discussions in English as a lingua franca, maybe spoken by Japanese users of English to mitigate a speaker's assertiveness and fill the linguistic gap was found to serve in the process of enhancing hearers' understanding and clarifying what is said by participants to co-construct discourse and ac...