Abstracts archive

This presentation examines three ways that nation-state-based linguistic ideology was subverted at an English-medium program in Japan through: recognizing "immersion effect" (othering by labeling an experience "immersion"); evading "language effect" (viewing language as a discrete unit); and allowin...

This preliminary study attempted to understand what experience it was to participate in a CLIL study-abroad program for Japanese participants (N= 107), by investigating its impact (effect and influence) including: change in awareness/attitudes towards global citizenship, sustainability behaviors, En...

This paper reports a case study that investigates whether study abroad can develop Japanese university students’ understanding of English as a lingua franca (ELF) based on data obtained before, during, and after SA. It discusses factors that prevented students from fully developing understanding o...

Our poster presents findings of focus groups with primary school teachers and teacher trainers on the implementation of multilingual approaches in Swiss primary schools. Participants appraised multilingual activities regarding their curricular relevance and their potential to develop language compet...

This paper investigates beliefs of German-Finnish adolescents about Finland and Finnish language in the context of the Finnish Language School. The Results indicated that all participants in the study highlighted the role of the Finnish Language School as a community that expanded the opportunities ...

The shape and position of English are changing fast in academia. ELF is a complex form of language contact, viewed from three key perspectives: the cognitive, the micro-social, and the macro-social. It is argued that academics use their varying repertoires of English skilfully in co-constructing mea...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate in-service teachers’ thoughts and beliefs vis-á-vis a professional development program focusing on pedagogical translanguaging. In this ethnographically framed study, the complex relationships between teacher cognition, teacher identities and their clas...

In this paper, I will consider two questions for global Indigenous peoples like myself: What identities are currently available, adopted and valorized by Indigenous language speakers globally? How are positions like Indigenous language speaker, academic, activist and teacher altering in response to ...

Sociolinguistic theory predicts stylistic variation to be similar within a community (Labov 1972). Data from London and Edinburgh suggest that style-shifting norms from speech to reading are mostly similar in London. In Edinburgh, some speakers do not style-shift, which suggests that different speak...

The current study described the engagement in informal digital learning of English among Kazakhstani pre-service teachers and the associated language outcomes

The study of linguistic immersion in an endangered language spoken in the southern part of France, Occitan, sheds light on the perceptions of this practice by learners and outsiders. The view of the importance of immersion is linked to the situation of the community and reflects the evolution of ide...

This presentation will report on the impact of transversal aspects of language and culture on the online international collaborative design and implementation phases of a Virtual Exchange training format by expert teams from Mexico (UNAM) and the Netherlands (UG) and the projects resulting from it.

This study investigates the effects of a CLIL-based literary pedagogy on intercultural competence and language proficiency of 239 students in FLT. Three interventions carried out in two consecutive school years in the upper forms of Dutch secondary schools showed positive effects on intercultural co...

Spatial and embodied theoretical turns provide an imperative for collecting multimodal data, but video recording may be perceived as invasive in school settings. In this study, screen recordings allowed for multimodal analysis of translingual writing, while also providing participants with control i...

Foreign language pronunciation learning can be improved at school. German speaking pupils improved their pronunciation of a French vowel phonemic contrast after focused instruction. Pronunciation teaching with a communicative phonologically targeted pedagogy is as efficient as an articulatory pedago...

Drawing on the experiences of thirty teachers from a variety of contexts within China, and covering a range of career stages, this presentation will utilise semi-structured interviews to explore the provision and consider the value both Chinese and expatriate educators place on their own in-service ...

This paper carries out a cross-European comparison of stakeholder perspectives on catering to diversity within CLIL programs. It reports on a cross-sectional concurrent triangulation mixed methods study with 2,526 teachers, students, and parents in 59 Secondary schools in six European countries (Aus...

This presentation provides an overview of indigenous minority languages in Bangladesh. Based on past and present experiences, there is probably room for optimism about the future of these languages. We will discuss factors at national and international levels that may have led to these positive deve...

This study examines influences of individual differences on oral proficiency measured by the CAFL framework. The data set consists of 168 speaking performances of 24 advanced-level learners of Korean as a foreign language (KFL) during task-based activities in two intact classes.

Phrasal verbs are a subcategory of highly common and informal formulaic language that is important for daily spoken communication. The present longitudinal mixed-method study investigates the out-of-class language contact of over 200 foundation year students in the UK and its relationship with the p...

Longitudinal studies of twelve second/foreign English, French, and Arabic classrooms across proficiencies and methodologies contrasted immersive (L2-only) versus non-immersive pedagogies. Comparisons of assignment scores revealed little/no differences, suggesting a limited impact of classroom langua...

We investigated the effects of a synchronous computer-mediated communication tool for developing L2 speaking and listening abilities over five months. Results show that the use of such tools significantly improved the students’ interest in an international posture even if using the tools was not f...

This presentation reports on a recent study that investigated the implementation of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in an EFL school setting in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), focusing specifically on how teachers focus on form (FonF) in this TBLT-based setting in their teaching practice.

This paper will present the results of a number of studies showing that identifying linguistic and subject variables significantly affecting immigrants’ performance in an L2 may also provide important indications as to how the effectiveness of foreign language teaching can be increased.

Second language teachers design lessons to promote oral language production. One Canadian Bilingual Program has introduced Intensive German weeks in which they study the use of strategies from the Neurolinguistic Approach. Our action research highlights collaborative learning, but also the need for ...

This paper focusses on in-service teachers in CLIL, bilingual and immersion programs in Australia, and their practices in language learning strategy (LLS) instruction. The paper analyses the catalogue of reported strategy instruction practices for language and content learning, and the teachers’ r...

The paper examines Bosnian Herzegovinian pre-service English language teachers’ attitude and understanding of classroom diversity in terms of student structure and background, as well as their preparation to work in the challenging landscape of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

The chunkedness of language is assumed to be rooted in the properties of cognitive processing. Yet, we commonly investigate chunking using data aggregated from a population sample. This paper examines the extent to which individuals rely on different cues when processing chunks in natural speech. 

In this session I provide a historical overview of how academic literacy research has examined multilingual speakers’ experiences over the last few decades, and offer the concept of “Individual Networks of Practice” (INoP) as a powerful theoretical and methodological construct to investigate s...

This poster reports on a multi-year, multi-institution project that explored the potential of informal science education to engage dual language learners (DLLs) and their families in multilingual early childhood educational contexts.