Abstracts archive

The project Linguistically Sensitive Teaching in All Classrooms aims to bring a change into European education. It targets pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators in the EU and wants to provide them with a tool that helps them develop their teacher cognition and change from monolingual to...

With the current policy of internationalization of federal universities in Brazil, there have been far-reaching changes. Before the internationalization policy, the main academic language was Portuguese, but now there is a growing shift to English. This paper focuses on the orientation of one partic...

Based on examples of learners’ engagements with literary texts, this talk argues that aesthetic reading can help to expand current paradigms of second language literacy development and can thus create imaginative spaces in which learners can explore and reflect on their developing positions as mul...

In my talk, I analyse biographic narrative conducted during an ethnographic study of Hungarian-speaking groups in Catalonia. I compare various data sources on the conceptualisations of the local linguistic diversity experienced in Catalonia and ways of imaginations of adjustment and integration to t...

A longitudinal study which investigated the relationship between phonological short-term memory and working memory capacity and the development of L2 grammar competence over the period of 2 years was conducted. Among the four tests of working memory only listening span predicted the slope (i.e. chan...

This paper presents a female Iraqi student’s perceptions of how mainstream U.S. high school content classrooms function as a contested space for multilingual and multicultural immigrant youth. This space, which is constituted by a lack of support, in turn affected the academic achievement and over...

This paper reports on the results of a national survey of English language competence for young learners in the Netherlands. Using CEFR-induced tasks for reading, listening and spoken interaction, the study estimated the relative contribution of a wide variety of factors, ranging from hours of instr...

Researchers have claimed that centering the role of the interpreter on principles of impartiality and neutrality makes for rigid and insensitive practitioners. We argue that a radical impartiality should be seen as the solution rather than the problem regarding how interpreters can be of service in ...

This presentation argues for space as a crucial dimension of informal language learning. It discusses research that maps international students’ language learning in Sydney, Australia, and suggests that students’ use of the spaces of the city is a key factor in individual differences in engageme...

This study of materials in an Indigenous language reclamation context examines the intra-actions among Ojibwe First Speakers, immersion school youth, and land. We apply Indigenous perspectives (Simpson, 2014) and sociomateriality (Fenwick, 2015) to point-of-view videorecordings of bilingual walks in...

This presentation aims at analyzing literacy practices related to race, gender and intersectionalities legitimized by English textbooks in Brazil. We rely on the conceptions of ideology, language ideologies, ideological literacies and on a performative approach to identities to scrutinize literacy p...

Adult migrants are a heterogeneous group in which different literacy profiles can be identified, taking account of migrants' educational background.  In this study, we focus on non-literate and low-literate refugees and migrants in Greece, drawing on qualitative data provided by language teache...

With quality education in mind, this presentation offers thought-provoking suggestions on how literary texts can be utilized to promote students’ critical thinking and enhance their foreign language skills. The presentation is based on empirical research undertaken at a private university in the U...

By looking for alternative ways to live language teacher education otherwise, we have found in decolonial thinking possibilities for the resignification of our praxis. In this paper, we will present three praxes, which represent our efforts to fight coloniality, and we conclude by arguing for a deco...

This conversation-analytic study illustrates a longitudinal and retrospective approach to documenting a student’s access to a past learning object in an L2 classroom setting over the course of multiple moments of interaction. Drawing on video-recorded interactions from an EFL classroom, the analys...

Newspapers’ online comment sections provide a channel through which hate speech can influence mainstream public debate. Based on a corpus of comments to the pro-Brexit Express online between 2014 and 2018, this paper examines the vilification of various out-groups and its relation to the newspaper...

This paper will explain how design-based research was used to design and implement the short course on training lecturers across faculties in applying multilingual pedagogies at a university in South Africa. Preliminary results on the lecturers’ awareness of and attitudes towards the application o...

This paper explores how language emerges and moves among other forces and bodies in a youth participatory action research project with multilingual youth. Using Deleuze’s (1990/1995) notion of stuttering, it illustrates how youth were connected to the immediacy of their socio-political-material en...

This paper examines knowledge, attitudes and beliefs (Ernest, 1989) of multilingualism in German teachers. Framed by sociological and pedagogical frameworks, we discuss the advantages and limitation of qualitative content analysis in order to approach attitudes towards multilingualism.

We review differential involvement in a multi-component educational-intervention study, considering factors influencing diverse participation levels in collaborative language education research, including the impact of federal regulations around ethics. We discuss how researchers might ethically app...

I describe how theories and hypotheses of adults’ acquisition of L2 competence and ideas in pedagogy are based on the educated and literate to the detriment of the non-educated and non-literate and discuss exciting new research on such L2ers’ morphosyntax, syntax and phonology which is starting ...

This in-progress study analyzes the literacy needs of students that have been returned and inserted into the Mexican higher educational system upon completing their previous studies in the United States. The purpose is to identify academic areas of improvement, so they develop their Cognitive Academ...

The curricula-based school practice of the Sciences ignores the human aptitude for storytelling. FICTION AND CONTENT UNIFIED LEARNING (FACUL) employs neuroscientific insights into the conditions of successful learning and demonstrates how LabLit, a subgenre of science novels, can act as catalyst to ...

This presentation examines a peer language tutorial involving Thai and Japanese students mediated through the use of English and embodied resources. Findings of the study will add useful insight into language learning in the context global mobility wherein individuals ceaselessly expand their repert...

Identifying general conclusions pertinent to the fortunes of signing communities worldwide, this paper sets out the challenges faced by those seeking to embed British Sign Language within Scotland’s ‘1+2 languages’ programme for schools, examining the risks inherent in trying to deliver such a...

In the paper, I consider the role of creative inquiry in eliciting and then shaping young people’s emergent voices in everyday and school contexts. I will draw on a number of projects that were located in the field of everyday literacies and language practices together with a creative inquiry lens...

Positive Language Education recognizes a trend toward increasing awareness of the need to consider the whole person in local and global contexts. Learner and teacher wellbeing is not an optional extra but a fundamental foundation for skill sets needed in their personal and professional lives.

Understanding the language-ideological processes associated with media effects is the centre of the current study. This study explores different kinds of language ideologies prevailing in the media space in contemporary Hong Kong society.

This lecture outlines a context of change in China in which new textbooks were introduced into some colleges. In order to prepare teachers for textbooks which were innovative in this context, three types of trainings are offered to help them adapt the textbook.

I describe the intersections of visual and material phenomena with written and spoken language, as I found them entangled in home and community contexts (Pahl and Rowsell 2010). I explore a language of description for more than human encounters within everyday meaning making.