Abstracts Archive

It is a truth universally acknowledged that teaching EFL in Latin America presents innumerable challenges, such as students' low motivation and alienation towards the English lessons, the lack of resources, low proficiency and a primarily grammar-based approach. To tackle these issues, we propose th...

Whereas the potential of picturebooks in primary ELT can be regarded as undisputed, research so far offers few perspectives on their value for intermediate and advanced learners of English. With our presentation, we argue for including picturebooks as a new format of literature in the context of sec...

This presentation describes a Japanese as a Foreign Language course using Makoto Shinkai's animated fantasy film Your Name (Kimi no na wa). In this presentation, I propose that authentic content with identifiable characters in the form of anime can stimulate class discussion and creative output.

This presentation indicates partial results of a research on the impacts of the literary text in English classes of a public high school in the Southern of Brazil. Lessons that have already been developed were built in the light of Vygotsky's Sociocultural Historical Theory (SCHT) and aimed at liter...

This talk will take the tension between 'transactional' language use, in the sense of language in the service of information exchange, and 'transactional reading,' as conceptualized in Louise Rosenblatt's reader response theory, as a point of departure for theorizing the importance of aesthetic dime...

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Given the disparity in sociopolitical values, viewpoint diversity is an inescapable feature of any issue which invites collective consideration. Rawls (2005) argues that even on intractably contentious questions such as those around morality and religion, disagreement is not only an inevitable but a...

Blackout poetry is a subgenre of found poetry where writers create their own poems by deliberately crossing out unwanted words from a single existing text (Hilbun, 2015; Ladenheim, 2013). As a teacher educator, I illustrate how blackout poetry was introduced to develop coherence and cohesion in writ...