Abstracts archive

This paper will focus on the evolution of English as a foreign language (EFL) programs in France from the mid-20th century up to the present day. Our purpose is to trace this evolution both upstream and downstream, that is, in theories of reference and in secondary school textbooks.

A break of grammar rules or language development? This speech deals with the attribution of nouns in light verb constructions in the german press. Forms of the attribution and their possible influences on the reception of the text are described on the basis of the 50 articles from Frankfurter Allgem...

 This presentation reports on the implementation of CLIL for German applied linguistics courses – a context which is typically English dominated. As part of their assignments students were asked to write reading journals in the target language. The study illustrates how they develop their (ac...

My talk will cover the representation and framing of disability, prenatal diagnosis, inclusion and exclusion in the political discourse in Germany. I will do a corpus linguistic research using the example of a debate in the German Federal Parliament concerning the Praenatest and the reactions in the...

From a multiperspective view (students, teachers, administrators and university management), the paper will deal with language use and language attitudes towards standard languages and regional varieties at an Austrian middle size university. A mixed methods approach can show how elite language ideo...

Conversations between peers are among the resources learners use to make sense of cultural practices and values. Through an analysis of two pairs discussing Japanese manga on intercultural encounters we look at the ways in which peer mediation affects Japanese learners' understandings and the potent...

Situated in a CALL course in a TESOL master’s program in Canada, this mixed-methods study explores how pre-service ESL teachers’ experiences with a chatbot impacted their perceptions of the chatbot as a language learning tool and their design of chatbot-based teaching activities.

How have literacy studies changed in reponse to technological innovation and changes in the world order? This paper documents a shift from the study of texts/events/practices in relatively settled contexts to focus on displaced literacies across borders. Notions of assemblage and bricolage may bette...

This presentation outlines recent changes in language education policy in Luxembourg which call for a more inclusive and multilingual early language education in the formal and non-formal sector and examines the influence of professional development aimed to help early years practitioners appropriat...

This paper presents the project “From monologues to dialogues”, a collaboration between teachers and researchers. The project addresses the parallel interaction which often characterises pupil-pupil conversation in the language classroom by exploring task design and “good” interaction. The p...

The current project investigates the potential of foreign language learning as a cognitive therapy aimed at seniors diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment or late life depression. Functionally monolingual participants follow a language course, to enhance cognitive flexibility. Gains in cognitive f...

This study examined the impact of a form-focused intervention during repetitive tasks on students’ oral fluency development over 13 weeks. Forty-eight Japanese university students were divided into three groups based on the degree to which they received an intervention focused on formulaic languag...

This presentation will describe projects effecting curricular innovation across multiple languages and significant instructor agency in the transformation of assessments, curricula and materials. It will draw on multiple data sources including participating language instructors, and examples of thei...

Studies of pragmatics reflect researchers’ views. This presentation provides a brief review on pragmatics studies in the fields of interlanguage and ELF, especially in Japanese contexts, comparing researchers’ interpretations of learners/users’ pragmatic behaviours. Based on pragmatics studies...

This presentation discusses (career) opportunities and challenges of new subjectivities which have been made available to language teachers within their Twitter-based professional development as part of the symposium on trajectories and perspectives of language teachers in the 21st century.

In multilingual classes, social interaction in the context of friendships can be seen as a valuable resource for language acquisition. In this research we study the relationship between friendships in the classroom and the development of language proficiency of in children with German as their first...

This paper discusses the distinction between complicated and complex as they relate to language use, and argues that a full measure of complexity needs to account not just for the number of linguistic units and levels of embeddedness in language, but also for the quality of interactions between them...

This presentation describes extensive reading and extensive listening/viewing activities in Japanese language courses at a United States university. The presenter will discuss the significance of various inputs in language courses, and how they can elicit learners’ autonomous learning.

This paper will discuss how (national) values are by law incorporated into the process of integration and the conception of language teaching material in Austria. Further, consequences for the positioning of migrants will be discussed.

Task-based needs analysis is a professional, in-depth inquiry into the tasks and language associated with them that second or foreign language learners need to perform. the focus of this paper will be the transfer from needs analysis to actual design and how NA may inform all dimensions of task and ...

Culture shapes the ways people perceive and verbalize emotions. The study presents a new positive emotion in LX learning, drawn from emotional preferences that encompass L1 culture.

As the fifth estate, social media influence public discourses. Previously tabooed contents and language are becoming normalised. But also forms of organised counter speech have been developing as an answer to hate speech. In this presentation, forms of counter speech in German and Finnish social med...

While online corrective feedback is proven to help English learners construct their academic knowledge and critical thinking skills, the study of its effectiveness, particularly in online writing and editing collaboration is largely absent. This paper analyzes EAP students’ perception of online pe...

I will undertake a contrastive analysis of the use, semantics and framing of lexemes in English and in German referring to ´disability´ within DM (Twitter) with methods of DA. This study is corpus-assisted as I will examine n-grams and collocations recurrently appearing in the context of ´disabil...

This presentation focuses on examining multilinguals’ practices in French immersion programs and how youth from various backgrounds negotiate their linguistic and cultural resources, even in a space which was originally intended for something else. Data come from sociolinguistic and ethnographic s...

This presentation aims to study the progression of autonomy in becoming a (creative) writer through instructed immersion. The elements of autonomy are identified and presented as potential seeds for developing / improving teaching methods of Creative Writing

This study presents how a multi-dimensional EFL writing score report is generated for college EFL learners by using cognitive diagnostic approach. The effectiveness of the report is also verified by conducting a three-month quasi-experiment. The results are accurate, reliable and effective and signi...

A number of studies have shown the potential benefits of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) on Second language (L2) oral proficiency, but fewer focus on using technology offering classroom opportunities to support spoken language (Lin, 2014). Within the context of England and learners of school a...

The paper presents the findings of a case study in which 8 undergraduate students of Italian as FL have been engaged in creating a multimodal composition after being exposed to a literary text. The paper examines how the practice promoted reflective writing and encouraged expressive use of the FL.

This presentation will report on an Irish primary school that successfully converts extreme linguistic diversity into significant educational capital. It will argue that pupils’ learning achievement illuminates three theoretical constructs – exploratory talk, plurilingual and intercultural educa...