Abstracts Archive

Social network analysis is an emerging field of research in Applied Linguistics; the scope and utility of mapping the social realities of language learners is yet to be determined. Although sociocultural research in language learning has long recognized the primacy of social interaction for language...

Participating in an international experience in a foreign country is many times seen as the most favourable option when it comes to learning a second language. In the same line, aspects such as intercultural competence (IC) also seem to take advantage of such stays (Heinzmann et al., 2015), and this...

Translanguaging, transmodalities and transpositioning are inextricably intertwined concepts that offer innovative analytic perspectives and insights for understanding communications in this era of increased globalization and communication across diversity. Transmodalities, a theory of soci...