Abstracts archive

This ethnographic case study analyses language and discursive practices used in the safety program of a mine located in northern Finland. The critical sociolinguistic analysis demonstrates that language problems are not considered in the program. However, the employees are obligated to take responsi...

For low literate newcomers, traditional L2 courses are often long and unrewarding. Using the Service Design methodology, we designed an innovative demand-oriented, project-based approach outside the traditional classroom in which learners can perform real-life tasks matching their needs and in which...

This paper presents an expository-specific model of inferences used to investigate inference processes of skilled L1 and L2 readers for two academic tasks. Results showed inferencing processes differed across languages for a summary but not a position-paper task, and inferences differed significantl...

The presentation discusses the selection of English norm(s) in relation to the validity of the performance-based EAP test that is used for assessing university lecturers’ oral proficiency. Based on test data analysis, it is concluded that native-speaker norms misrepresent the teaching context and ...

This contribution analyses the opportunities for language contact that students experienced during Covid 19 by focusing on the access to physical and socially constructed spaces. 

In this paper, we analyze autobiographies produced by descendants of Polish migrants in Brazil, focusing on negotiations of identities and language ideologies. The narratives were written by teachers of basic education and undergraduate students in two different cities in South Brazil. The main iden...

This subtheme will critically examine linguistic experiences aimed at ‘effortless’ and ‘more authentic’ learning, only achievable through immersing soul and body in socially-engineered spaces. (Re)presented as processes of self-transformation for self-capitalisation, we will discuss their co...

Anecdotal accounts about language learning through audiovisual input are increasingly frequent while research on how this happens from a language acquisition perspective is leaving its infancy. In this talk I will attempt to provide an overview of this area highlighting some of the research findings...

This contribution offers a historical overview of foreign language policies in the Italian school system in the last five decades through the analysis of its main school reforms, of most used course-books and of specific foreign language teaching terminology as used in language teacher education pro...

This study examines language provision in some of the Republic of Ireland's higher level institutions. It compares data collected on the ground to the goals set in the recently launched language policy that aims to increase the uptake of foreign languages in Ireland.

This paper draws upon discourse analysis to explore how language underpins disparities in educational outcomes in Cabo Verde. The research focuses on language and educational discourses produced in relation to a recent bilingual initiative to introduce Kriolu alongside Portuguese as a medium of inst...

How much do language and literacy skills of international students differ from those of home students, to what extent does this affect academic achievement, and when does language proficiency stop being a barrier for learning? The talk explores these issues and implications for university policies a...

Based on corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis methodologies, this contribution examines how German newspaper discourses reflect debates around integration, descent and belonging. It also explores different expectations and obligations embedded in discourses on belonging, and how within...

Code-mixing is a common sociolinguistic phenomenon in Hong Kong, in which Hongkongers integrate English words into their host language (Cantonese) for more effective communication. This presentation explores the linguistic phenomena of and possible reasons for Cantonese-English code-switching and co...

This paper discusses language education policies in Singapore from post-independence to the present and compares these with the shifts in the linguistic landscape of Singapore in the same period. English dominance leading to the endangerment and death of the nation’s indigenous languages is raised...

The paper explores drawings on ‘Finnish language’ by primary school pupils and teacher trainees. It concentrates especially on the represented connection of language, nationality and nation as well as on the differences that the multilingualism of the participants creates in the drawings.

Autonomous Chinese-speaking sojourners exhibit their autonomy through seeking out affordances offered by their social networks for diverse linguistic and non-linguistic encounters within various social settings. This research investigates how a group of autonomous Chinese-speaking sojourners at a UK...

This presentation introduces an EMI program, which was initially associated with “English-Only”, but has recently put more emphasis on multilingual aspects with new study plans, including study-abroad programs in non-Inner-Circle countries. It discusses both the potential of such programs for th...

This paper contrasts multi-ethnic immigrant European (Sweden and Switzerland) with Asian settings (Myanmar and South Thailand) to explore the illuminating role of Q methodology in mapping the range of argumentative positions about linguistic pluralism where debates about minorities and majorities ar...

The current research examines family language policies within Russian-speaking single-parent families in Finland.

This research explores the identities and language practices of second-generation Arab youth in Montreal, Canada. Data is collected through semi-structured interviews. Results show that almost all participants live in 'spaces of otherwise', assuming multiple identities and belongings, and showing di...

Based on newly collected qualitative data in secondary schools in The Netherlands, this study aims at gaining more insight in dynamics of social cohesion an social identity in an early tracked education system. Particular attention will be given to the role of home languages and language use in clas...

This presentation provides an overview of shifting orientations to language in CLIL research, realized as growing attention to the notion of integration and to the need to conceptualize language skills to be attained in CLIL as subject-specific and connected to knowledge creating practices of differ...

The presentation focuses on the question of how metalinguistic awareness in monolinguals and multilinguals can be measured and whether there are differences between the metalinguistic awareness of monolinguals and multilinguals. A method to make metalinguistic awareness visible using language compar...

The nationalistic stance of Poland’s ruling party clashes with EU’s multilingual, multicultural values. Because no studies examined the impact of language ideologies on language teaching, we interviewed five English instructors in Poland to understand the role of multiculturalism and multilingua...

English-language voluntourism is a practice in which young, often uncredentialled and inexperienced, Inner Circle (Kachru, 1997) speakers teach English in the Global South on a short-term basis. This paper examines how language immersion is used as a dominant linguistic ideology within these program...

This paper presents results of the project My Literacies on children’s attitudes and investment in language and literacy learning in school and out-of-school contexts. The interpretation of visual products (photos, drawings) and conversational data shows the children’s ambivalent emotions toward...

Brazilian LPs are analyzed to suggest that top-down decisions seem to prevail, leaving little room for bottom-up policies, agency of local stakeholders and other languages besides English. The paper concludes with the suggestion of using approaches such as CLIL, COIL and IC in the context of interna...

This paper discusses how a University Language Policy was devised from research into EME, and analyses the broad range of implications of the policy in University Governance

Language portraits drawn and discussed during workshops in schools offer an insight into how children present their multilingual repertoires. Wittgenstein’s distinction between saying and showing and Langer’s concept of visual representation that distinguishes between discursive and presentation...