Abstracts Archive

Pragmalinguistic strategies used by the teacher to instruct learners in the initial phase of an EFL lesson have revealed themselves as significant dynamic indicators of successful instruction. They allow the teacher to gain and maintain dominance, recruit learners and redirect their attention from c...

This study presents and compares the results of two instructional programs of L2 French in the Netherlands after 6 years of secondary school specifically in speaking skills. The first program, commonly used in the Netherlands can be termed a "weak" version of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) an...

This paper aims at presenting how the Film Language Integrated Learning (FLIL) usage-inspired L2 teaching approach is being implemented in the first year French language proficiency unit courses as part of a substantial overhaul of the French language program taught at the University of Groningen.&n...

This project aims at taking the DUB turn at university level for language students whose learning objectives go beyond second language proficiency and also include sociocultural competences such as analyzing cultural specificities, understanding culture and navigating culture. To do so, we ...

What teachers need to know about a DUB approach to language and language learning so they can let go of their "learning to use" approaches and confidently move to a "using to learn" approach.