Abstracts Archive

The objective of this presentation is to describe the process of transition of academic activities from face-to-face to online and remote mode in two Brazilian universities during the Covid-19 world pandemic. Additionally, this presentation aims at igniting the discussion about the pivotal and posit...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, face to face classes were suspended in many parts of the world in 2020 and 2021. The change from face to face to online environments for educational practices was thus inevitable. Global South contexts were some of the most affected ones by such change, given the diffic...

This presentation aims at describing an online language learning context in which teletandem sessions (Telles, 2009) have been integrated into the syllabus of a Letters Course at the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Brazil. In the second semester of 2021, the subject "Aprendizaje de Portug...

This presentation introduces the ReN, English as a Medium of Education, Multilingualism and the SDGs: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. It explores the role of applied linguistics in contributing to the realisation of the SDGs and thus how it can foster the development of equity, diversity and inclus...

With the growth of varieties and implications of the use of English worldwide, Marlina (2014) and Sadeghpour (2020) call for a pluricentric approach to English which could also be understood from a decolonial perspective (Mignolo, 2017) of an ecology of knowledges (Santos, 2007). One way to foster p...

This paper examines the presence of English language ideologies in language-in-education policy and discourses in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has never had a consistent policy on language in schools. Sometimes English has been encouraged, sometimes it has been limited, and sometimes it has been forbidden...

Despite the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their focus on quality and meaningful education the majority of African pupils are still excluded. Such exclusion is mainly caused by language barriers. African countries use predominantly previous colonial languages. Recent developments indicate ...

Diversity and Inclusion have become the buzz word in language education and more recently in the field of applied linguistics. Although on paper, some educational policies advocate for the inclusion and diversity of knowledges, content, programs and approaches to teaching, the reality remains at a c...

This paper reports on how SDG-inspired lesson plans were co-created by participants on ViVEXELT (Vietnam Virtual EXchange for English Language Teaching), an action-research project funded by the British Council in Vietnam (digital learning innovation fund pilot 2021-2022) that aimed to establish a s...