Abstracts Archive

Digital influencing and its learning potentials in multilingual classroomsRecently, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research advertised a funding program that deals with language learning and teaching in today's immigration society. One of the main concerns is to relate language educat...

This presentation discusses how enhancing the English as an additional language (EAL) speakers' formulaic language competence through content-based (CB) instruction that applies genre pedagogy and socio-pragmatics can contribute to the development of academic literacy. It reports on the results of t...

This paper contributes to the concept and practice of a posthumanist Applied Linguistics, as proposed by Alastair Pennycook, with a broader focus on human-machine sociotechnical relations. An alternative to the tradition of human-computer interaction research in Computer Science is sought in favour ...

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This article describes how discourses of professionalism, insecurity, and exploitation among English as a second language/English for Academic Purposes (ESL/EAP) instructors and administrators at two Canadian universities construct their understandings of fair work. These understandings are examined...

The aim of this study is to explore what difficulties and opportunities second-language (L2) students in grade nine, perceive when reading texts in civics. The data is based on thirty-six Think Aloud (TA) and exit interviews with eighteen L2 students in grade nine, aged 14-15. A four-field mode...

The Accmadial project (ACCompagnement des MAlades DIagnostiqués ALzheimer) (supported by MSHPL, MSHB and IRESP) has studied the experience of carers of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's from their own putting into words of this experience. It aims at giving a new description of it, as an individual...

This study aims to investigate the discursive construction of polylogal conflict and identity and the underexplored role of multilingualism therein in an online community of practice through scaling analysis based on a case study of Li Ziqi's YouTube channel. Supplementing the existing interactionis...

The paper analyses how an unfamiliar, globally affected pandemic immediately affects languages and results in language variation. The study explores the possibilities of the framework of cognitive sociolinguistics to analyse a language variation in progress. It explores the range of new additions to...

This paper deals with the role of hand gestures and other types of visible behavior (eye gaze, body posture, facial expressions etc.) in task-based classroom interaction. Our goal is to explore the interactional role of gestures in L2 learning to achieve and maintain intersubjectivity during peer in...

Teacher identity has been widely described and conceptualised, although it is a challenge to find a univocal and completely satisfying working definition (Mockler, 2011; Beauchamp and Thomas, 2009). In the research project 'Early career English teacher identity and agency', funded by the British Cou...

The Arab world population is more than 453 million people in 22 countries (WPR, 2022). Each country adopts at least one variety of Arabic, and these variations may be too different to the extent they are not intelligible or understandable to one another.&...