Abstracts archive

University policy trends for English medium instruction (EMI) are explored in this study in the wake of transnational campus growth in China. Data were collected via a policy scan of more than 400 'double first class' universities and interviews with EMI programme heads. Findings highlight the emerg...

Adopting an ecological approach to better understand EMI satellite campuses in Asia and the Middle East, I investigate the ways in which English monolingual biases and an emergent interest and pride in local languages within several countries that have hosted such joint venture foreign campuses have...

This talk outlines how students’ gesture-speech interface in second language classrooms/studies can provide teachers/researchers with a more comprehensive understanding of what students do and do not understand in the classroom. Gaining a full sense of students’ understanding helps teachers/rese...

This research uses conversation analysis to describe three prosodic techniques a teacher uses to facilitate learner participation. While he validates and connects all student responses, he employs larger prosodic features to encourage further participation whereas these prosodic features remain larg...

In a pseudo-longitudinal study that aims to understand the development of complexity in L2 writing, we demonstrate the utility of an approach to studying complexity using information-theoretic measures based on Kolmogorov complexity and complexity contours that track the progression of complexity wi...

Language teachers report having limited direct contact with research findings despite generally having positive perceptions of research. We will discuss how OASIS summaries can be used to facilitate interaction between research and pedagogy, by providing examples of and suggestions for their use.

This study employs a corpus-driven approach to examine language use in commercial Chinese textbooks, the primary source of language exposure and use for LCTL learners, as an effort to identify core content domains for Chinese assessment in US universities.

This contribution draws upon the findings of a European project (Technologically Enhanced Language Learning Pedagogy), which linked two primary schools in England with schools in France and Spain through video-conferencing, to argue that such technologies provide language learning opportunities for ...

This talk first reviews validation frameworks that can guide SLA research. Then, three issues are discussed: how to proceed with validating theory-derived research instruments, how to validate instruments for various uses, and how to plan validation into SLA research designs. The presentation ends w...

This study investigated the relationship between narrative fiction exposure and moral orientation in 8-16 year-olds. Eudaimonic narrative fiction exposure was related to eudaimonic moral orientations. Information on the type of narrative exposure is thus relevant in understanding how narratives can ...

This study explores two questions, which is first on the teacher issue: If teachers are using L1, then why are they using it and how much do teachers use it in their lessons? The second is the student issue: How do students feel about the use of the L1?

We examine the uptake of elaborative corrective feedback by 200 Spanish/Catalan primary school EFL learners using early reading development digital games over a year. Results will be discussed in relation to the role of corrective feedback in the context of digital games and how this may contribute ...

This study explores immersion teacher candidate and student teaching supervisor perspectives on and experiences with the use of an immersion-specific Rubric and accompanying Workbook for assessing and developing preservice teacher performance and practices. Analysis revealed both positive perspectiv...

Effective Deaf education requires teachers to be critical of their use of various communication modes in teaching. This study reports how an experienced teacher at a Deaf school in Japan self-reflected upon her teaching practices through the use of a classroom observation scheme BOLT (Bilingual Orie...

Using the findings of a meta-analysis, this presentation exemplifies how sample characteristics impact study outcomes. Findings of subgroup analyses regarding various learner variables will be presented and discussed, highlighting the substantially different outcomes for WEIRD, i.e. Western, Educate...

This paper explores the influence of a blended professional development program for LCTL language instructors in higher education, and long-term influence of the PD program on participants’ understanding of the accompanying proficiency guidelines and implementation/application of what they learned...

This study examined the use of Twitter in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course for EFL medical students. Students were encouraged to communicate with their tutor and with each other via Twitter during 10-week ESP course. To measure their attitudes and experiences in using Twitter, data were...

This study looks at the acquisition of caused motion expressions by Uyghur-Chinese early successive bilinguals. Two specific issues it aims to address are 1) the relative role of universal cognitive factors versus language-specific properties in children’s language development and whether and to w...

This paper will describe the double-fold validation process carried out in order to obtain statistically reliable surveys to identify difficulties and best practices in catering to diversity in CLIL within the European ADiBE project. It is distinctive from other papers in that it offers the statisti...

This talk deals with Olympism and its mythification through instituted values and a sought-after ideal, as set out in charters and other official texts. Our research is based on behaviors and rules to be observed in order to guarantee peace in the world and harmony among people. A comparison with am...

This paper presents a replication of Hu and Nation’s (2000) influential study on the 98% vocabulary coverage threshold for reading comprehension. Using a non-academic sample population, it will follow the original study design and also expand it to provide more robust insights into the validity of...

Supporting ones speech with signs from a sign language holds great potential for hard of hearing people and their environment. This talk argues that this will hold great potential for deaf communities, as it massively increases the number of people with some (lexical) knowledge of the sign language,...

This presentation demonstrates the potential of using autoethnographic accounts of individual scholars’ life-long process of language shift. We intend to show how this method enables researchers to identify the critical incidents in an individual’s experience and to reveal the interpretive compl...

In our presentation, we present a fully developed research use argument (RUA) and software for instructed second language acquisition, using a newly developed Python-based software application. The RUA addresses concerns in the field of applied linguistics by guiding users to supply specific data ne...

Based on my doctoral research project investigating translanguaging practices in the primary school, this paper focusses on how a Portuguese-speaking newcomer to the trilingual education system in Luxembourg orchestrates both multilingual and multimodal resources to navigate curricular demands and c...

Visual representations of publication trajectories tend to use hypothetical examples. However, representing the actual trajectories of manuscripts helps reveal the complexity of assessing and revising manuscripts. This presentation shares how graphical representations of manuscript text histories we...

This paper presents a study in which primary, secondary and tertiary CLIL teachers, teacher educators and researchers used video observation and joint reflection to explore and develop classroom interactional practices for integrating content and language. Implications for the content and processes ...

The purpose of our study was to determine if Chinese learners of Spanish used dimensions of valence and arousal and the distribution of grammatical categories of Spanish vocabulary similarly or close to native speakers of Spanish in oral narratives. To achieve this, we elicited oral emotional narrat...

This paper presents validity arguments for the automated assessment of English academic proficiency by discussing the case of a fully computerized and automatically scored test of academic English. Evidence of the validity of construct definition will be presented, drawing from research on second la...

This is a report of a longitudinal case study carried out in a German international school. The researcher traced the language development of two learners of English (both eleven years old at the beginning of the study) by collecting writing samples periodically (every four weeks) for 22 months.