Abstracts archive

This qualitative study explores the learning trajectories of four language students (L2 German) during a semester abroad: two of them stayed in a German-speaking country, two in a non-German-speaking country. The effect of learners' social interaction on their L2 formulaic development will be discus...

This study investigates translanguaging practices of Russian-CG bilingual children at home, school and in the society. Classroom observations showed that their children, students in bilingual Russian-Cypriot Greek classes alternate languages. Russian-speaking teachers also code-switch and use societ...

This presentation proposes to introduce an innovative project which will focus on human interaction with artificial intelligence, in order to provide standardized diagnostic assessment, evaluation, and training for language learners. This project which focuses on tertiary level students can also be ...

In comparing the effectiveness of language modes in dyadic, computer-mediated communication, van Mulken & Hendriks (2014) found that L1–L2 interactions in (neighbor) German and Dutch were more effective in realising communicative goals (spot-the-ten-differences) than the ELF interactions. Besides ...

With a special focus on football, I will discuss two opposite strands of recent developments of datafication and deep mediatisation: The polyphonic representation of different types of live data on the one hand and the technological innovation of automated journalism on the other.

We discuss the possibilities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) based software for diagnostic feedback. The aim of our research is to develop personalized ASR so that it can be utilized as both self-learning and assessment tool. This will raise learners´ linguistic awareness and enrich the const...

The presenter reports a case study on voice development in written coursework completed by two multilingual doctoral students in interdisciplinary programs at a U.S. university. The findings suggest that, although understudied, lower-stakes writing tasks provide important early-stage opportunities f...

In this collaborative study we explored the nature of discourses of writing employed in Swedish compulsory school years 4–6, drawing on observation evidence collected by teacher education students. There are benefits as well as constraints in collaborative research of this kind, and these will be ...

L2 Directed Motivational Currents (L2 DMCs) are defined as unique, stable and long-term periods of intense motivation among L2 learners. This paper will describe the results of a study that considers psycho-emotional factors that might contribute to disrupting or inhibiting L2 DMCs among language le...

I intend to shed some light on teaching and learning of adult illiterates who have never attended school. My point of interest are also teachers and educators who conduct language lessons for people who can neither write nor read in their mother tongue. The presentation is based on relevant literatu...

This study examined the effects of extensive reading on the development of L2 reading attitude. A total of 92 Japanese EFL university students read SRA reading laboratory for 12 weeks and completed a reading attitude questionnaire twice. The major finding was that cognitive components were easier to...

The findings of this study offer empirical resource for the developmental change of non-native English speakers' interactional competence over time.

This paper endeavors to delineate upon some of the ontological and epistemological undercurrents of dialectical dynamic systems theory (D-DST) by drawing upon Pepper’s root metaphor theory. Specifically, it purports to shed light on D-DST by invoking organicism and contextualism worldviews and dis...

Teacher professional development programs are launched in Sweden to meet the needs of migrant students' learning. Based on longitudinal linguistic ethnographic data, this paper investigates such a program in secondary school from two teachers' perspective, i.e. affordances and constraints regarding ...

This ethnographic, qualitative case-study empirically explores possibilities for language learning through digital multimodal composing in popular new media genres among emergent bi/multilingual newcomer youth in school. Given the increasing numbers of newcomers in Canadian classrooms, there is a gr...

In this paper, we describe Me Mapping, present a content analysis of the Me Maps created by newcomer students and their future teachers, share the perspectives of those who created their own Me Maps and those who facilitated their creation, and explore the implications for mainstream classrooms and ...

Experimenting with an ecological approach to Pluriliteracies Teaching for Deeper Learning, this innovative, longitudinal study charts how a language teacher radically shifted ways of working with middle school learners of French – including beginners – to develop academic literacies across langu...

Following Lillis and Curry (2010), this multiple case study aims to shed light into telling publication practices in English. Target participants were Turkish medical specialists, post-graduate medical students and undergraduate medical students (n=6). Text-oriented ethnography methodology provided ...

This paper analyses nine years of anonymized student and lecturer records and backgrounds to find that while English-Medium generally outperforms L1 instruction, excellence is rarer due to linguistic factors. Such negative effect is lessened in cases where lecturers promote active learning and show ...

This talk illustrates how the ADiBE Focus-Group Interview Protocol made it possible to easily gather qualitative appraisals from more than 90 Italian high school students regarding their bilingual experience in an otherwise very monolingual social reality.  Students' voices not only called...

The EVOLVE project (www.evolve-erasmus.eu) has conducted research on Virtual Exchange across disciplines to measure and interpret (through quantitative and qualitative analysis) its potential impact on foreign language proficiency, intercultural competence and critical digital literacy. The outcomes...

This presentation focuses on the use of computerized dynamic assessment as a means of diagnosing learners' responsiveness to pedagogical intervention. We discuss two recent studies of Chinese pragmatic comprehension to illustrate how different administration formats highlight different aspects of re...

The dialogical meanings do not incorporate as literary and musical arts in relation to the daily life of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Work as reverberations enunciated in a language construction from the Bakhtin Circle.

The present study examines the cross-language transfer of lower-level reading processes (reading fluency and comprehension, morphological awareness) in L1 German to L2 French across different learner groups in primary school. To investigate measurement validity and then low-achieving readers, differ...

Our study reports on an ethnographic case study using digital storytelling with refugee background youth in a secondary school. It addressed the dynamic and productive ways in which digital storytelling can leverage refugee background learners’ communicative resources to make visible their literac...

This presentation reports on an experimental study designed to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of a direct and an indirect approach to data-driven learning in facilitating Chinese learners’ mastery of hedging in an undergraduate English-as-a-foreign-language writing class.

The way the subject is understood in poststructuralism sees discourse as enabling and constraining the agency of the subject. This paper explores this notion in some autobiographical texts of Derrida, and considers the extent to which it features in the work of Busch and Pavlenko on autobiographical...

This interview-based study investigates the ways in which various discursive processes within and about Swedish Higher Education (HE) are rendering some value-laden linguistic practices invisible. Focussing on language ideologies, the study demonstrates the affordances of taking a multilingual appro...

The distance teaching is aimed to provide Finnish sign language teaching to pupils whose mother tongue is sign language and there is no qualified teacher available in local municipality. In our experience and according to feedback, this form of study is a good alternative when contact teaching is no...

We tested whether bilingual children gesture more than monolinguals because of greater word-finding difficulties. We found no differences on gesture frequency during word-finding difficulty. However, there were no differences on the number of word-finding difficulties or gestures. These results rais...