Abstracts archive

This linguistic ethnographic study addresses two Ugandan women living in Istanbul as skilled migrants. The analyses of the participants' everyday language practices in the city aim to show how these two women construct and negotiate their identities as skilled migrants in Istanbul through their (non...

How can writing instructors develop their learner’s syntactic complexity in the L2 classroom? The researcher used a mixed methods design to examine the effects of three types of tasks on the development of complexity. The results indicated that tasks that focus learners’ attention on syntactic a...

This paper will report the experiences of 36 trainee teacher students at a UK based University engaging with a variety of activities during an intensive telecollaboration English for Academic purposes (EAP) training course on Moodle.

To support preschool teachers with applying the new law that declared multilingual early education mandatory in Luxembourg, we offered a professional development course in translanguaging pedagogy over the course of 6 months. The results from teacher questionnaires and focus groups show that there h...

This study reviews studies between 2010 and 2020 to examine screencast second language written corrective feedback under the framework of Best Practices and the International Society for Technology in Education standards to reconceptualize the notion of e-feedback and refine the best practice in the...

In this paper I analyze a group of first graders' multimodal texts about spring. In their learning to read they use the STL+ program where writing on iPads is the starting point for reading. My main interest is to analyze the students’ verbal and visual texts – what does the verbal text communic...

This study investigates the core elements of which constitute the expected standards of ELF in international communities. Quantitatively, two online surveys were conducted with one hundred participants of both Japanese and non-Japanese who are related to international communities; and qualitatively,...

This study reports a US writing center tutor’s interventions in an L2 doctoral student’s dissertation. Analysis of tutoring transcripts, interviews, and documents revealed the tutor’s systematic practice of constructing the tutee’s drafts through oral dictation. Findings suggest a need for d...

In this study we aimed to examine the challenges faced by deaf students, professors, Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) interpreters and staff, starting from the process of democratizing access to higher education and focusing, particularly, on the insertion and participation of deaf students in acade...

Listeners make negative evaluations of non-native accents. We show that phonetic perception and social evaluations improve when L2 speakers use co-speech hand gestures (emblems), even if non-native accents themselves stay the same. This suggests that in cross-cultural communication, more attention s...

The current study investigates access patterns to English media, particularly audiovisual input, among Italian university students. It is based on a questionnaire responded to by 572 participants and is the follow-up of a previous survey carried out in 2016 (Pavesi, Ghia 2020). Results point to a st...

The current study presents age and gender differences in the production of Greek vowels. The vowel productions of 20 males and 20 females, aged between 18 and 50 and 20 children, 10 boys and 10 girls, aged between 8 and 10 were analysed.

The present study investigates whether Chinese immigrant workers in Spain are perceived as polite as they intend to be by L1 Spanish speakers when producing requests in Spanish and, if not, whether intonation might be responsible for these communicative misunderstandings.

This contribution presents the "Language Village" as an empirically valid method and didactic approach for activating linguistic repertoires of multilingual secondary students, while not only integrating all schooling languages but also other foreign and heritage languages in tasks, material and int...

This presentation addresses a longitudinal study on the pedagogy of augmented reality (AR) implementation in English second-language (ESL) classrooms. The presenter discusses the unique attributes of AR technology that support ESL teacher instruction and students’ learning. Study findings help rev...

Graduates from Chinese-medium schools in Hong Kong often have lower competence in English and are disadvantaged in schooling and the labour market. This narrative inquiry traces the socio-academic trajectory of a CMI school graduate in local and overseas EMI higher education and relevant consequence...

This paper introduces a Personalised Autonomous (PA) model as a new approach to addressing diverse language learning needs of international sojourners in higher education. It discusses its pedagogical efficacy based on both qualitative and quantitative data collected from more than 1,000 students fr...

The purpose of this study is to investigate a method of giving feedback on essay writing in order to focus students' attention on logicality. Students' comments on using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) for writing an essay need to be analyzed to examine whether students are paying attention...

When a robot enters a foreign language classroom, the learning situation changes. We will analyze the kind of turn-taking that takes place and how actions and sequences are organized. We also pay attention to how children respond to the robot and how they seek help from the teacher.

This presentation explores the textual transformations occurred in the bilingual adaptation of Cambridge English Readers in China, and discusses 1) the change of view of foreign language learning behind the adaptation and 2) implications for Chinese learners of English.

Using a stylistic method of analysis, we determined how student and (semi-)professional writers linguistically realize the communicative purposes of the genre literary book review. We will show that such stylistic descriptions cannot only reveal how written language develops, but also which concepts...

Animating the experiences of TEFL/SL graduate international students at a Canadian university with new materialities concepts, we seek an understanding of agentive navigation of pedagogical ecologies as a double becoming (Massumi, 2015, p. 124). We offer possibilities for de-territorializing the fie...

Question of how research articles in different languages are related to each other in the process of knowledge production has received little research attention. I address this question and empirically focus on citation practices of experienced scholars. I use ‘paired analysis’ as a particular a...

We focus on migrants' opportunities to develop and utilize their field-specific language resources in practical training. Some participants of our ethnographic study found their access to meaningful tasks and L2 resources to be too limited. Language awareness should thus be an integral part of super...

Through longitudinal close analysis of Whatsapp group chat messages, this study reports changes in how EFL students accomplish requests overtime. The findings suggest that changes are both due to students' evolving linguistic repertoires and to an increased entitlement to make the requests.

Becoming successful strategic readers in EFLL is a true challenge for children. Our study indicates that although there is a statistically significant difference in reading results in relation to the use of some comprehension strategies, young learners are not fully aware of a range of strategies an...

This presentation will provide an intuitive and accessible framework for bridging the personal and professional benefits of action research with the illustrative power of CA.

This paper reports on a longitudinal study on the effects of reading-while-listening, reading with textual input enhancement (i.e. underlining), and reading-while-listening plus textual input enhancement on Vietnamese pre-intermediate EFL learners' acquisition of collocations.

This presentation explores educational change by examining how a group of language teachers implemented blended learning at a Colombian university. I discuss, in particular, the experiences of four teacher leaders responsible for implementing the change and suggest implications for the professional ...

How can we make plurilingual competence more tangible and empower learners as participants in ‘glocal’ communities? This talk discusses the development and piloting of an E-portfolio and platform for plurilingual action-oriented learning, as a feature of LINCDIRE (LINguistic and Cultural DIversi...

English as a lingua franca (ELF), syntactic alignment, lexical alignment, corpus study

This small-scale qualitative study explores the role multilingualism plays in in the therapeutic experience of refugee torture survivors, within a supportive community. Fifteen community members were interviewed. The findings reveal that using English, a later-learned language for all of the intervi...

EFL textbooks carry instructional content as well as principles for instruction. In this paper I present a modified version of Bernstein's model of pedagogic discourse used to interpret the underlying power and control relations during the enactment of an EFL listening textbook in a university conte...

This featured presentation begins with a systematic review of published CDST research in the Chinese context and identifies possible future directions. Publications in both international journals and Chinese journals are compared and contrasted in terms of developmental trends, topic distribution, r...

Globalization led to an increase in the linguistic diversity of students in higher education, including domestic language minority speakers (LMS). We will look at the predictive value of academic language proficiency of LMS in relation to other demographic and educational background factors and cons...

We have developed a culturally appropriate vocabulary test specifically for young Chinese learners of English. We will discuss the development process and present the full set of results from two field tests with several hundred participants, including an analysis of the relationship proficiency lev...

My study investigated the usage, role and perceived relevance of English language entry requirements for English-medium programmes at higher education level in Germany. Websites of over four hundred German universities and polytechnics were analysed; students and programme leaders were surveyed as w...

This talk aims at conceptualizing much-needed interventions into teacher education that empower foreign language teachers for queering their classroom practices. It will present a ‘docking-station’ of texts and tasks that teachers can use to diversify their teaching, and to end the silencing of ...

The contribution presents the course concept of an intercomprehension course for Romance languages offered at the Language Centre of the University of Salzburg. The primary aim of the course is the construction of (receptive) plurilingual and pluricultural competencies.

This paper is inspired and motivated by emerging scholarship (Guilherme & de Souza, 2019; Macedo, 2019; Phipps, 2019; Pennycook & Makoni, 2019, among others) inviting language and culture education practitioners to question the ideologies underpinning how we think and frame our practice and ...