Abstracts archive

in this presentation, I share findings from a participatory ethnography project that explores community-based and plurilingual  practices with explicit focus on fostering agency and engagement of plurilingual students and their parents.

Multilinguals' early languages are often associated with emotional expression and inner speech, although later languages can acquire emotional depth (Dewaele, 2013; Dewaele, 2015). This paper explores to what extent psychotherapy clients who used LX as the main therapy language report that this matc...

Considering both the methods and models of classroom interactive competence (CIC) in teacher professionalization, this presentation will first identify the affordances of multi-perspective videography before examining how digitally-mediated CIC is enacted in inclusive EFL classes in German secondary...

This presentation explores L1/L2 complexity research from the Darwinian perspective of Language as a Complex Adaptive System, in an attempt to tease apart inherent variance in language production (at a given point in time) and variance resulting from attaining higher levels of language proficiency (...

I will present the results of a long-term study on concepts for managing multilingualism at schools in South Tyrol. Study data include interviews with educational actors, school principals and teachers in 12 schools, allowing for the development of a grounded theory for evaluating policy and practic...

We conceptualise WeChat as a virtual translanguaging space within which individuals creatively and flexibly draw on multimodal and multilingual meaning-making resources to construct their heterogeneous and selective identities.

Language assessment literacy (LAL) has been conceptualized in different ways in the research literature. This study has used a qualitative research design to explore how teacher trainers and teachers in Norway understand the construct. The results have important implications for the way the field co...

The presenter advances the position that children engage in ‘conflict talk’ exchanges through which information about the meaning, structure, and usage of language become available to the child. The presenter showcases research supporting the notion that conflict may inform language learning. As...

Technology-enhanced language learning (TELL) is changing the way students learn and the way educators teach. However, much work is still needed in this area, specifically providing educators an opportunity to develop techno-pedagogical knowledge through professional development. This presentation wi...

How is science-based expertise communicated in times of science denialism and competing voices of experts-by-experience? In my presentation, I introduce different discursive resources and rhetorical strategies that are used to construct authorial voice and expertise and interaction with reader in po...

In this presentation, we compare studies on EMI policies and practices across three different Gulf states—the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. After providing a brief overview of the development of EMI educational language policies within each setting

The presented empirical study focuses on 127 first graders taking part in the new Bilingual Program (French/German) in Primary Schools in Bavaria. The research interest lies on the level of competence in French, German and mathematics as well as on the intersectionality axes gender, multilingualism ...

In this presentation we will claim that teaching sign language to everyone is not a solution for a small linguistic community. Instead we propose a different approach for Icelandic Sign Language, an Icelandic Sign Language based school in the spirit of indigenous languages.

This presentation will act as an introduction to what a complexity approach can offer practitioner researchers in investigating the psychologies of second language learners. Through 'complexity thinking' tasks and consideration of a range of introspective and audio data, the session will scaffold pa...

Since the debate over the sheep poster, the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) constructs its political discourse on the exclusion of some ethnic and racial groups for not being (enough) Swiss. Using methods of critical discourse analysis, this paper discusses the SVP’s political discourse of exclusion ...

This paper investigates the uses and conceptualizations of English as a lingua franca in a globalizing start-up company. By following a key participant’s work practices on site and online, this paper shows tensions that emerge between authenticity, formality and practicality in the use of English ...

This presentation reports the partial results of a Master's study which applied a needs analysis to establish the target communicative situations of adult immigrant learners of Brazilian Portuguese as a Host Language, which lasted for about five months and comprised classroom observation, interview ...

In this talk, we report on a classroom-based research that investigated pre-service language teachers' transformation from reflections and actions on empathy and autonomy. We present data generated from teaching diaries and discuss implications for language teacher education. 

Considering the complex co-dependence of elements that converge in and around creative methods and practices at a digital storytelling project site in Barcelona, we draw on the notion of ecology as it has been developed in sociocultural language and education research to consider the emerging afford...

This study investigates how migrant South Asian mothers and children in Hong Kong strategize to achieve class mobility through constructing new class identities and practicing linguistic and cultural repertoires, and how they practice language policy in the multiple contexts of home, school, communi...

Understanding motivation and satisfaction levels of home and international EMI students students may help understand globally growing EMI phenomenon. With these implications in mind, this study aimed to examine the motivation and satisfaction levels of international and home students in the EMI cont...

In this talk we will present “The multilingual pupil”: a collaborative learner corpus project involving teachers, pupils, researchers and teacher educators. The project aims to investigate pupils’ development of written skills in L2 and L3 languages as well as teachers’ written feedback prac...

Understanding advising from the perspective of the complexity theory means to look at the dynamic interaction between advisors and learners as influenced by both internal, individual factors, and external factors, which may hinder or enhance change in the advisor-advisee relationship, in the learnin...

This empirical study examined the effects of concept mapping and summarization on learners’ comprehension monitoring and metacognitive accuracy skills in L2 reading. The obtained results revealed a significant positive effect of these instructional strategies on the outcome measures of comprehensi...

With the rise of English Medium Education continuing, calls are being made for research to inform policy. This talk sets out to ponder some of the challenges and complexities involved in this endeavour and concludes by proposing four possible ways of conceptualising the researcher as policy adviser.

This presentation explores student language teachers' conceptualizations of language and language teaching as they surface in the introductory course "An appetite for language" in a specialized language teacher profile as part of the teacher education programme in a university college in Denmark. Th...

Researchers who conduct qualitative research on genre-based pedagogies for scholarly writing may experience different problems during data collection and analysis. In this presentation, using my research experiences as examples, I will share my challenges and how I deal with them.

Action research by language teachers at a New Zealand polytechnic aims at promoting collaborative autonomous language learning among students who learn Māori and those who learn Japanese language. This presentation will report preliminary findings focusing on the learners of Japanese who engaged in...

In this contribution, I aim to trace back the genesis of current scientific controversies on CLIL by analysing the ideological context of birth of CLIL research. To do so, I analyse a key document authored by the founding father of CLIL (i.e. the Marsh 2002 Report). Thereby I shed light on how the i...

This paper illuminates the construction of new social and linguistic orders in multilingual primary schools in Cape Town. It suggests that these emerging ideologies of postracial solidarity can be seen as examples of Fanon’s (1968) postcolonial cosmopolitanism ‘from below’, one that creates ne...