Abstracts Archive

Multilingual learners are a quickly growing school-age population in most Anglophone immigrant-receiving countries. Although a substantive scholarship has focused on enhancing English language and content-area teaching practices, much less literature has focused on enhancing school leadership for TE...

Responding to global challenges during the pandemic times, two teacher-researchers designed learning tasks in a way that plurilingual transnational undergraduate learners develop their intercultural awareness and inclusive global citizenship, and advance multiliteracies through asynchronous multimod...

Miscommunication in healthcare is common. When communicating about risk and certainty, practitioners often use epistemic adverbs (e.g., possibly etc.) to explain the likelihood of outcomes or conditions. Previous work revealed subtle differences between monolingual English speakers in Cana...

This action research study drawing from ethnographic methods centered on how performative storytelling positioned adult immigrant and refugee English learners in the US exploring ethical issues related to engaging learners in public storytelling. The study took place at a nonprofit center for adult ...

English title: Dealing withunclear symptoms: the interactional work of the interpreter when describing psychophysical issuesDuring the problem presentation phase of a doctor-patient interaction, the patient has the possibility to describe his health issues in his own terms (Heritage & ...

This study draws on interview data with exiled multidisciplinary scholars in sanctuary fellowships in host UK universities and focuses on the impact of exile and placement on their academic identities. Several theoretical tools including transnationalism and Bourdieu's concepts of capital, habitus a...

How to empower multilingual students while developing their academic literacies and promoting a meaningful connection with wider communities and relevant social contexts? This presentation provides an answer by discussing the insights from a curriculum development-focused action research project con...

Our paper intends to show how a practitioner and citizen research firmly rooted in interactional and applied linguistics contributes to(1) better understand how some actors in our society take social co-responsibility to fight against the risks of financial breakdown that could lead individuals and ...

Critical Language Awareness (CLA) Pedagogy is an approach to literacy instruction that engages students in deep explorations of language, identity, power, and privilege. When it comes to academic writing instruction, the goal of a CLA approach is to promote self-reflection, social justice, and rheto...

The expression "How are you?" is probably one of the most studied in interactional studies, both in its phatic, ritual or structuring dimensions.  In medical interactions, research has shown that this question is interpreted according to its sequential location, and that it can also be ambiguou...

Our proposal aims to problematize how the way of characterizing mental disorders, in particular of migrant people, illustrated with obviously clinical but also social and political issues. « CRP » or  « PASS » offer care to people who are victims of trauma, particularly war or linked to exi...

Australian higher education is increasingly understood in terms of preparing students to be 'work-ready' graduates, and 'authentic' assessment (Gulikers, Bastiaens & Kirschner, 2004) seen as a means to that end, particularly in the case of vocational degrees. For students studying generalist Hum...