Abstracts Archive

Theory:In the wake of #BlackLivesMatter and toppled statues of emblematic colonists, teacher education and research in Applied Linguistics in Germany has been paying more attention to the political goals of social justice by addressing inclusion and diversity in revised syllabi and EFL teaching...

Societal polarization can take a heavy toll on equitable relations of power, eroding people's capacity to see "the other" as anything but a threat, resulting in distrust, discrimination or violent social conflict. Sociolinguistics has illuminated these dynamics, constructing critically-conscious the...

How do educators address and meet the needs of students whose languages, cultures, and lived experiences differ from the educators working with them in an 'uneven world'? This presentation details two primary school teachers' participation in a book group project in a professional developm...

While the field (and the world) has changed since Pennycook's (1990, 2001) call for critical applied linguistics, what remains is the "uneven world" (Pennycook, 2022) in which we live, learn, and teach. With the goal of bringing more balance into this uneven world, critical language teachers must ex...

Researchers and educators have strived to examine how everyday practices, interactions, and texts help (re)produce or problematize structural inequalities. Referred to as critical pedagogy, this philosophy of education, however, has been criticized for its assumed universality; there has been disapp...

The current sociopolitical situation around the world is forcing scholars and language educators to rethink our pedagogies, methodologies, and approaches. How are academics, researchers, and language educators, engaging with the social and political reality? Or are they? How do we educate and raise ...