Abstracts Archive

Our aim is to better understand co-production as a research practice by exploring the co-production of empirical data in a methodological seminar that prepares teachers of foreign languages for their thesis.First, we define cooperation in collaborative research by highlighting the added value of the...

We address the question, whether and how far the Spelling Inventory developed by Bear et al. (2020) for English can serve as a reference point for the comparative analysis of spelling in Turkish and in German by adult learners of German as a second language (L2) with Turkish as their first language ...

Language teaching professionals may not have adequate knowledge about how games are designed, in particular, how game mechanics, titles, and genres differ and relate to one another (Hunicke, Leblanc, and Zubec 2004), in order to understand critically various assertions about the affordances of games...

Research into language learning strategies suggests that strategy use enhances learning, but has largely ignored LESLLA learners. In this presentation, we present survey data into strategies that LESLLA teachers model and train, and data on interviews with learners on which strategies they use to en...

This presentation examines Mexican return migrants belonging to generation 1.5 of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the U.S. This generation defies traditional notions of citizenship associated with nation-states. Building on critical citizenship theories, specifically on the concepts of status, ha...

Textbooks are critical educational resources to raise critical awareness of environment issues among foreign language students including Chinese learners of German. German has been taught as one of the main foreign languages in China's colleges for decades, but few studies have been conducted on the...

In this study we focus on language education of adult refugees and migrants in Greece.  The main purpose of this study is to assess language needs of adult refugees and migrants through the implementation of the  CoE Toolkit relevant needs analysis tools and to present tailor-made thematic...

This study aims to explore multilingual lived experience regarding translanguaging in foreign language learning and everyday life. The personal experience of an ethnic minority, who is a Mongol living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China (also known as Mongol-Chinese) and a speaker of Mo...

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...

Media criticism starts from self-criticism, i.e., the ability and willingness to critically question and further develop one's own practices and products of media production (Perrin, 2020). This presentation shows how such self-criticism in media editorial offices can be fostered by transdi...

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...