Abstracts archive

This longitudinal study keeps track on five novice elementary school teachers who received a yearlong preservice teacher preparation program and reveal how they try to “apply the teaching methods they were trained to use” (Farrell, 2021, p. 447) in their school contexts.

From the 'What If's' to the 'So What's': Updating our Understanding of Second Language Development from a Complex Dynamic Systems Perspective

This study examines perceptions of professors and students on EMI policies at three Korean universities. Results show that the majorities of the professors and students were involved in EMI due to their university's policy and that they felt lower satisfaction and less interaction than in classes of...

Gatekeepers have the power to open or close doors for people, seeking access to the labor market, higher education, etc. Language attitude research shows that humans are quick to judge a person based on the way she/he speaks. It is therefore highly relevant to promote sociolinguistic awareness-raisi...

This presentation uses CA to analyze two styles of test prompt for a paired EFL speaking test. The analysis suggests that the wording of the prompt can influence the test-takers' turn-taking and topic development, leading to differing assessments of their interactional competence.

Drawing from L2 Spanish writing classes, this study explores the impact of genres in L2 writing skill development as the central goal for composition courses – arguing that such an approach best serves L2 Spanish learners and contributes to the integration of their L2 linguistic knowledge in their...

This talk presents results from a study analyzing gestures co-occurring with the discourse marker “entonces” (then) in a corpus of 24 narrations from native and non-native speakers of Spanish. “Entonces” often indicates a temporal sequential nexus. However, it has a number of other pragmatic...

There is a dearth of research on oral academic language use in seminar-type classes in higher education. Addressing this gap, this study focuses on working with international students speaking English as an additional language and their course instructors to explore spoken classroom interaction patt...

With a commitment to the use of literary works as oppositional practice in Teacher Education, I present a self-study in-progress. The study capitalizes on students’ shared / background knowledge of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series to demonstrate principles of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in...

In this paper I investigate the metalanguage of students and teachers in high school concerning students with working class backgrounds and their academic language skills and discuss how the situated metalinguistic practices relates to broader discourses about the 'high school extraneous' students.

The goal of the project CIPSY is to study the interactional competence of the nurse in adult psychiatric service. It responds to an external request from an psychiatric hospital in Lyon, that expressed the need for an experimental research, considering that the patient-caregiver relationship, as wel...

This presentation will focus on examining "what happens when speakers come from a space where they are familiar with the social rules and the language practices, and enter a space where this is not the case ?" (Busch 2015). The talk will focus on a student mobility from Canada to the United States a...

We report on affordances and challenges arising during the preparation and administration of a joint research instrument in a multinational project involving data collection in six European education systems. Linguistic and cultural-systemic translation adds new levels of challenge to the operationa...

Gemma Harasim played a significant role in the international cultural contest in the first half of the twentieth century. She developed an innovative method for teaching Italian Language. She experienced it in Fiume/Rijeka, under the Hungarian Crown, in a multi-ethnic context at a politically crucia...

This paper focuses on text analytical tools to conduct a close analysis of disciplinary literacy, textual features, discourses, and genre for text production and meaning- making in early years writing.

In this talk, I will present how language education can be designed using principles of genre pedagogy (Rose & Martin 2012; Van Dijk & Hajer 2012). Selected research results underpin the responsibility of subject teachers to connect subject and language learning in subject areas.

Digi+ is a Dutch-German Computer-Based Learning Environment (CBLE), using the principles of Content and Language Integrated Learning in primary education as a part of the regular curriculum. We will answer research questions on German pupils’ attitudes towards their neighbour language Dutch and on...

This study investigates the receptive and productive English L2 grammatical knowledge of nine German L1 children during their time in a bilingual German-English kindergarten. The results provide insights into the learners’ syntactic and morphological knowledge of English and possible implications ...

This paper looks at digital language practices in four Norwegian-Senegalese families. Collected interactions and interview data as well as focus group data is analysed to discuss the children’s agency regarding language choice in communication with extended family members in relation to the parent...

This paper outlines a nationally funded research project which examines the competences needed by language educators in Higher Education contexts. We provide background on the currently available frameworks and demonstrate how a context-specific profile of competences is crucial for languages in the...

This presentation discusses research findings that contributed to the Lexical Syllabus construction in the Israeli schools: Optimal lexical targets, learners' vocabulary knowledge, treatment of vocabulary in textbooks, and factors that affect vocabulary learning. The project involved a collaboration...

The ability to read literary texts and to explore fictional worlds is a competence in its own right. Teaching literature should be based on a model of literary competences that learners need to acquire in order to understand the aesthetic dimension of literary texts and their relation to cultural ex...

Blending language learning strategy (LLS) instruction and gamification might contribute to the progression from other-regulated to self-regulated strategic learning. Exploratory results from primary students' use of L2 reading comprehension strategies in Spain contribute to the scarce research on LL...

This presentation draws examples from a sports context to illustrate the importance of multimodality in social media research.

The language of Brazilian immigration policy is based upon a globalized terminology, straddled between control and immigrant or refugee insertion. This language constructs an institutional habitus and is geared strategically and discursively to historical and contemporary contexts (Anderson, 1989) i...

Drawing on the view of genre as “an open category at least partly bounded by constraints of time, resources, availability and access” (Swales, 2004: 72), this talk addresses several theoretical and methodological challenges of investigating the intersemiotic relationships between traditional and...

Drawing on an observation of an antenatal consultation with a trafficked woman, this presentation explores the range of face-saving strategies (Goffman, 1972) employed by the patient's consultant and her interpreter, as they seek to navigate the series of events which have led to this visit.

This paper reports on the perceptions and practices of subject teachers and teacher educators across the UK about how they meet the language and literacy needs of students learning EAL. Findings and recommendations provide insights into the input and approaches that are needed across teacher educati...

The English need for Japanese companies increases as they expand globally. This presentation introduces the HERO program, an educational model that supports a community-based ER program as a means of workplace language provision to help fulfill this need, and discusses why ER is a feasible language ...

The presentation draws from an ongoing research project, ‘Historicising Humanities at Makerere University since 1922’, which seeks to rethink and reshape the role of humanities in Uganda.