Abstracts archive

This paper reports on a transnational virtual exchange between university teacher education students in Sydney, Australia and Hamburg, Germany. Their exchange is conceptualised as a third space, a symbolic zone of collective critical reflection in which students were called to reflect upon and analy...

The aim of this paper is to analyse different cases developed by various student teachers during the enactment of PA in their practicum experience in order to determine what dimensions of professional competence towards teacher and learner autonomy identified by Jiménez Raya, Lamb and Vieira (2017)...

Laurie Knox will serve as a discussant for the papers in the afternoon symposium.

In this talk I will theorize the notion of transcription and explore some of the semiotic operations through which we form and transform ‘data’. This serves to make explicit and consider the affordances of semiotic principles and resources for transcription and provide a framework for evaluation...

This paper aims at contributing to the characterization of specialized professional domains from the perspective of applied linguistics, more specifically ESP research. We deal with the fundamental notions of professions and professional identity, the three functions of specialized domains, as well ...

This presentation reports on the experiences of nine Irish-medium secondary immersion teachers as they engaged in the instructional integration of language and content during a two year-long PD programme. Teachers reconfigured their professional identities revealing three stages of development – t...

This study explores translanguaging and trans-semiotizing (Lin, 2018) as meaning-making strategies in co-developing content knowledge and academic literacy in thematic-pattern-based "Concept + Language Mapping" (CLM) CLIL classrooms (Co-author & Author, 2019). It also discusses the "collaborativ...

Remedial programs in the target language are often not enough to support plurilingual students in university and fill the achievement gap. Can translanguaging be the answer? We aim to identify from the ground up tools and strategies which could be implemented in support of plurilingual students in h...

Adopting a dialogic and dynamic process view of human meaning-making and the thematic pattern perspective, this study delineates the translanguaging/trans-semiotizing practices of an experienced science teacher trying out a CLIL approach in a Grade 10 biology class in Hong Kong, yielding important i...

This presentation will argue and demonstrate how translingual composing practices in Kenyan Hip-hop seek to decolonize Kenyan languages, minds and culture. Using Jua Cali, Kenya’s pioneer artist as a case study, the presentation will consider the implications of his decolonial work not only for Ke...

This doctoral research aims at investigating the language ideologies that inform a group of English language student teachers at a state university in Moscow, Russia, in the development of their professional voices. In dialogue with scholarly works in applied linguistics and linguistic anthropo...

This talk presents the results of studies that assess the ability of viewers to consistently recognize the intended message of information graphics. We then present the communicative signals that enable us to infer this intended message and explore how knowledge of these communicative signals can al...

Opening up sign language interpreting education for deaf students challenges both the interpreter education and the teachers. We find that educating deaf and hearing students together catalyzed social changes the education and in the interpreter trainers’ professional identity.

This talk focuses on the professional format ‘executive coaching’, on how coaching research and coaching practice (do not) collaborate and introduces a transdisciplinary project on questioning sequences in coaching, which brings together linguistics, psychology and coaching practice. Transdiscip...

Based on survey results, this paper examines and compares students' perceptions of and experiences in transferring skills of three English-in-the-Discipline courses designed for Social Sciences undergraduates in an English medium university in Hong Kong: one discipline specific English for Academic ...

Translanguaging has become an inescapable notion in the anglophone literature on multilingual education. To what extent has it been adopted into francophone educational discourse? Should it be? How? This paper explores these questions by investigating uses, translations, and equivalences from onomas...

I raise the question whether the concept of “translanguaging” has become prone to effects of “overshooting”? I will focus on its “exchange value” (sociolinguistically, language pedagogically, morally-politically, etc.). What might one learn from a “disentanglement” of the concept’s...

This presentation highlights inclusive, compassionate and effective responses to meeting the needs of children and youth who are in the process of resettlement and integration, sharing teacher perceptions of and approaches to students’ language and literacy practices through development and enactm...

This featured presentation focuses on academic writing policy and practice in the context of multilingual higher education. Based on student attitudes and composing strategies, it will be problematized to what extent translanguaging can be a solution to the challenges of academic writing

By offering a case of translanguaging-based classroom interaction in a multilingual university in China, this study problematizes several discourses that prevail international university policies, including English monolingualism and the linguistic and individual-oriented bias of language.

This paper presents how a polytomous cognitive diagnostic model is used in EFL writing assessment for Chinese EFL learners. It developed, modified and validated a descriptor-based multi-level rating scale by which a Q-Matrix was established and Sequential-DINA Model was applied to produce a fine-gra...

This study examines the potential dynamicity of motivation, personality, learning and cognitive styles, and working memory over two semesters of Spanish study at the university level. The project contributes to the empirical question surrounding the degree of dynamicity of these learner IDs.

This study explores the experience of Romanian ERPP trainers interacting with fellow academics of different specialisations. A guided-narrative instrument has facilitated the language trainers' reflections on challenges and benefits involved. Narrative data analysis, triangulated with field notes, h...

In this presentation, transdisciplinarity in business communication will be shared, based on in-depth interviews with Japanese scholar-practitioners. The challenges include confidentiality issues and insufficient understanding of Japanese corporations to research while opportunities include the poss...

Framed within Oxford’s (2013) peace language model and transformative approaches, this presentation reports on a study that explored a group of Argentine EFL pre-service teachers’ beliefs and emotions regarding a pedagogical intervention in the practicum aimed at fostering peacebuilding competen...

Complementary to the research literature focusing on spontaneous, on-the-spot, translanguaging, our study on MC Yan's music video that raps the city and the Hong Kong identity shows that translanguaging can also be non-spontaneous, carefully and systemically crafted. Our study therefore fills the ga...

This paper examines the plurilingual practices of adult learners in the context of online modern language instruction. Our analysis of four FutureLearn MOOCs shows how learners draw on their full plurilingual repertoires to scaffold their own learning and that of their peers, often with reference to...

In multilingual classrooms students may not only have diverse language and cultural backgrounds, but the level of their language proficiency and heritage culture identification may also significantly vary. This paper will discuss the role of translanguaging practices in creating an inclusive and “...

The paper investigates the roles of multilingual interaction and language contact in a community dance group that consists of members with asymmetric linguistic resources. Translatory practices are needed to enable everyone’s participation, and they are found to be influenced by the participants�...

The present project studies the Korean-Spanish bilingual community in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The paper investigates the history of their transnational diaspora and mobility, the complexity of their ethnic identity construction and their language profile.