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...

Students majoring in modern foreign languages in the Netherlands can follow up to 90 ECTS of content classes in another language than their major language. Usually, these classes are given in English used as a lingua franca. As a result, the entire linguistic repertoire present in the classroom is n...

This paper explores the sequential trajectories of accounting practices for the failures faced in video game playing activities. It attends to how the accounts for the failures recharacterize what happened in the game and for which specific reasons. This study draws on ethnomethodology and conversat...

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...

Little research has been produced to evaluate the comparability of alignment claims of tests of different languages that target the same levels of the Common European Framework of Reference. This presentation describes an innovative procedure to put standard-setting results for reading tasks in Engl...

This proposal describes the language used on Twitter in politics in Spanish and in English, which has been widely studied by several researchers (Zappavigna, 2012, Johansson et al. 2018, Carrió Pastor et al., 2021). In this vein, the use of metadiscourse markers is one aspect that shows ...

In this paper, we present the results of an intervention research which focus on how translanguaging practices through the breaking of norms aid French language learners in learning to write creatively a new language as well as in acquiring it.

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 ...

Theory:In the wake of #BlackLivesMatter and toppled statues of emblematic colonists, teacher education and research in Applied Linguistics in Germany has been paying more attention to the political goals of social justice by addressing inclusion and diversity in revised syllabi and EFL teaching...

Bridging competing ideologies: From utilitarianism and social division to communicative action in French Higher EducationMarc Deneire, ATILF-CNRS, Université de LorraineIn a large scale survey that I conducted in French universities in 2013 concerning the teaching of English, a clear dichotom...

The ECLE network comprises researchers from different disciplines who share a common interest in investigating affective/emotional aspects of language learning and teaching. Members draw on different methodological (qualitative and quantitative) and epistemological (pedagogical, socio-linguistic and...

Return migration from the United States to Mexico has increased over the past fifteen years. This phenomenon affects youth who face problems when continuing their education in Mexico, such as bureaucratic procedures, lack of social networks and linguistic challenges that affect their school performa...

In the Castilian-Spanish-dominated sociolinguistic terrains of Galicia, this paper examines the rise of grassroots-level actors or agents in the form of parents who have decided to contest the government's low-intensity language policy models through various bottom-up efforts. The term low-intensity...

Our presentation focuses on how non-native speakers have trouble identifying storytelling in talk-in-interaction. More precisely, we will offer a variety of stories found in different situations that one may encounter in their daily lives and that may differ from one language to another. We will dis...

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This study deals with the question of the development of agency of learners of French as a foreign language on the issue of pronunciation and accent. The aim is to reflect on the space available for the construction of this agency for learners of French at A2 level. The study is interventionist and ...

While most research in the field of ISLL focuses either on measuring acquisition from informal contexts through testing, or characterising attitudes to informal learning through questionnaires and interviews, the use of corpora offers insights into a range of phenomena relating to ISLL. Three b...

With so many of the world's Indigenous languages at risk of loss, it is vital that we consider how children from such linguistic backgrounds can be supported both culturally and educationally. In this presentation we illustrate how the incorporation of home language, which includes Indigenous langua...

This presentation aims at providing information on and insights into a current PhD project in the area of Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) that deals with Critical Thinking (CT) in cross-curricular and cross-linguistic instruction. In the research project, self-designed project lessons on...

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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...

This paper relies on the assumption that "inclusive" approaches are not enough to decolonize English Language Teaching. Since racism has played a structuring role in the craft of societies (Almeida, 2009), permeating the cultural and literary worlds we inhabit, "sprinkling in" diversity into the mai...

Narratives from English teachers at Japanese schools suggested that they realized that pre-service trainings at their universities had been based predominantly on value and concepts from West and difficult to fit to their classroom. The presentation will discuss strategies to overcome the problem be...

The aim of this presentation is to showcase several pedagogical interventions that highlight how Open Digital Pedagogies could facilitate the expansion of Spanish teaching and learning beyond the classroom where students can be thought of as knowledge creators, having an audience and an impact on th...

The happy heartbeat pulsing through the recent turn to emotions and to creativity stems from the epistemology of positive psychology (Csikszentmihalyi and Seligman, 2000) that has percolated down to the language classroom (MacIntyre et al, 2016). While 'flow' (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990), the foundation...

This study reports on how the supplementation of online materials, informed by systemic functional linguistics (SFL), interacted with English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) student writers' development of critical thinking skills. Through qualitative analyses of student-teacher interactions, interviews...

This study adopted multiple approaches to examining the diachronic development trajectories of L2 learners' strategic regulation behavior and its interactions with affective and social conditions in the course of self-regulation strategy instruction. A longitudinal case study was conducted with four...

In this contribution we will present a longitudinal study of discourses on French held by young people in vocational training for manual professions during peer interactions. Our data come from a project in applied linguistics whose aim is to test the use of corpora for teaching interaction competen...

Multilingual and multilevel foreign language classes are situations frequently found in university language centers. Faced with this complex context in our university language center, a hybrid course based on differentiated pedagogy, autonomous learning, and the project-based approach was designed t...

This communication aims to discuss how the teaching of English, crossed by diversity toward emancipation (Freire, 1970), decolonization (Walsh, 2010), can question the status quo that has been presented in the English textbooks in Brazil. This work  is grounded in a decolonial perspective that ...

The aim of the contribution is to explore the holistic approach to multilingualism in teacher education from a critical theoretical and an empirical perspective. In the theoretical discussion biographical approaches to teacher development are connected with concepts relating to "(linguistic) diversi...

According to the new educational policy in Greece, the introduction of English in preschools is prioritized in line with plurilingualism and multicultural aspects of the classrooms on par with the 21st-century skills development. The introduction of the English language in Greek preschools has ...

The European education policy has strongly determined multilingualism to be the main educational goal of language teaching at Swiss compulsory schools (Hutterli, 2012). However,  monolingual beliefs are still present in Swiss foreign language teachers (Barras et al., 2019), and, potentially ham...

The intercultural individual: Dynamic learning from critical intercultural pedagogy and self-reflectionIn the teaching and learning of foreign languages, intercultural perspectives have become fundamental to provide students with analytical tools that promote Intercultural Communicative Competence (...

In this paper, we provide insights into the early development of English education practice in the late Qing Dynasty, situating this within the specific social ideological context of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. We specifically aim to examine how the ideology of "Western learning f...

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...

AbstractTeaching and learning French phraseology are a major challenge for most French as a Foreign Language teachers. The understanding of phraseological units such as fixed expressions, collocations are indispensable factors for a good mastery of the foreign language, but when the learner is not f...

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China has had an ambivalent policy for the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) over much of its history. The status and role of English has thus changed over time, depending on the political period. This explicit and implicit implementation of language policy has had a parti...

Teaching science through English is a growing phenomenon around the world. In this presentation, I will discuss the latest research into CLIL and EMI instructions around the globe and the challenges that teachers and students face when learning science through English in many cultural contexts. &nbs...

For the present study, an extended notion of LL (Landry & Bourhis, 1997), “homescape,” is adopted, together with the discursive constructions of its inhabitants and designers, children and parents. This inquiry examines the family language policy in transnational (Chinese-French and Chinese-...

The present study is a mixed-method investigation into foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) of 201 Chinese university students in a non-degree German language program. We employed a questionnaire based on FLE-scale and FLCA-scale to examine the participants'...

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...

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...

On top of the common challenges experienced by university students, many international students are faced with a linguistic challenge, which often causes fear and anxiety in them. This in turn may impair their well-being and diminish their willingness to engage at university. International doctoral ...

This study explores acculturation process among New immigrants from Southeast Asia and their children. Since the beginning of this century, foreign female spouses (renamed as New Residents) from Southeast Asia have been immigrated to Taiwan in great numbers due to intermarriage with T...

Active Guarani Learning Resource: Development of multimedia resources to learn and teach the Guarani language online develops an open virtual platform with resources and web tools to teach and learn the Guarani language. This resource contributes to the application of Law 4251 of Paraguayan Language...

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...

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...

While the field (and the world) has changed since Pennycook's (1990, 2001) call for critical applied linguistics, what remains is the "uneven world" (Pennycook, 2022) in which we live, learn, and teach. With the goal of bringing more balance into this uneven world, critical language teachers must ex...

The analysis we wish to propose is part of a general reflection on the place of language in the reconstruction of lived experience and the transmission of a memory of events through the expression of individual memories.  More precisely, we will analyse the linguistic structures and resources u...

Within the Teaching French for Specific Purposes, phonetic correction for artistic purposes such as lyrical singing has been one of the fields in which the research still shows a great opportunity of development. One of the causes of this may be the multidisciplinary profile required from the teache...

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...

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...

The ECLE network comprises researchers from different disciplines who share a common interest in investigating affective/emotional aspects of language learning and teaching. Members draw on different methodological (qualitative and quantitative) and epistemological (pedagogical, socio-linguistic and...

This paper examines the possible pathways, processes, and practices to decolonize and transform the language teacher education curriculum through community-engaged programs and partnerships. In this presentation, we report on a qualitative case study that explores the reported experiences, processes...

In multilingual contexts such as Nepal, language policy planning has been contested due to the co-existence of multiple contradictory discourses concerning teaching and learning of local, national, foreign, and international languages. Due to this, attempts, both in policy and practice, in creating ...

Previous studies on Chinese university students' attitudes towards English language and English learning reveal that standard English ideology (SEI) is prevalent and entrenched. Participants expressed their belief in the Anglo-American ownership of English and desirability to achieve native-like pro...

Pragmalinguistic strategies used by the teacher to instruct learners in the initial phase of an EFL lesson have revealed themselves as significant dynamic indicators of successful instruction. They allow the teacher to gain and maintain dominance, recruit learners and redirect their attention from c...

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 ...

This study compares two types of parallel corpora from the Europarl European parliamentary debates. The first one is a multidirectional corpus (Europarl; Koehn, Ph. 2005) i.e formed by bitext without being able to distinguish the original text from its translation because the source language is unkn...

The Covid-19 health crisis has been one of the most important media phenomena in Spain. The media interpret social reality by transmitting a partial image that may contain an informative bias. This interpretation is revealed through language, more specifically, through journalistic discourse. T...

Translingual writing allows multilingual students to draw upon all their linguistic resources to engage in meaningful written communication. Because language is a social practice, it is important to understand multilingual students' lived experiences and sense-making in their everyday written co...

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...

The study is about English literacy retention and attrition in Japanese siblings who once lived with their family in a foreign country where they were educated and functioned in English and then returned to their home country, Japan. The study particularly focuses on how these children may retain an...

The present study is part of my PhD research project in which I look at the use of motivational strategies by teachers of English in Tunisian higher education level. I also explore students' perception of the use of these strategies as well as its relation to students' L2 self vision.

This study investigated the family language policy of minority and immigrant families in Cyprus. The participants in our study were 30 immigrant and minority families in Cyprus with various first language backgrounds, namely Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romanian, English and Arabic, and ...

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...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the methodological approaches used over a span of twenty years in research on informal L2 usage, based on a systematic review of ISLL research. 218 studies published between 2000 and 2020 were analysed with regard to a number of criteria such as aim...

Acoustic experiments extracted resonance peak F1 and F2 data to analyze the first-order vowels in the Kunming dialect. The experimental results showed that the seven first-order vowels in the Kunming dialect are prelingual high vowel /i/, postlingual high vowel /u/, postlingual low vowel /ᴀ/, prel...

The United Nations forecasts that the elderly population in Europe will reach 37% of total population by 2050. (Ramírez-Gómez, 2016). Living longer brings about a range of cognitive, affective and social challenges. Technology cannot solve these problems but incorporating technology into fore...

This study aims to investigate the linguistic features (LFs) of fluency exhibited by English learners with different proficiency levels (PLs). 39 English learners were divided into four groups based on their International English Language Testing System (IELTS) speaking scores: low-level (L) at band...

I consider here the impact of prevailing norms surrounding gender and sexuality on LGBTQ+ young people. I introduce a linguistic ethnography project with LGBTQ+ youth in England which uses a queer discourse analytic approach to examine how they construct their identities and to show what this reveal...

In this paper, we first address the question of how language ideology research relates to similar research fields dealing with attitudes towards language (for example, attitude research, language awareness, folk linguistics). Then we suggest that not only language ideologies of non-linguists should ...

During this symposium we propose to present the result of the analysis of oral diaries and interviews of French learners who are not only aware of the improvement of their oral skills through informal activities (TV series and movies, music and games), but also recognized that oral diaries activitie...

This presentation describes a Japanese as a Foreign Language course using Makoto Shinkai's animated fantasy film Your Name (Kimi no na wa). In this presentation, I propose that authentic content with identifiable characters in the form of anime can stimulate class discussion and creative output.

This qualitative multiple case study explored the usage of a cutting-edge methodology, retrodictive qualitative modelling (RQM) (Dörnyei, 2014), in complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) research in Applied Linguistics. By tracing the motivational dynamics of four high-proficiency and low-proficien...

This study investigates the changes and recent development of English education in the most closed-off country North Korea with its own Juche (i.e., self-reliance) ideology advocated by Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, analyzing the characteristics of secondary English textbooks p...

While earlier research in FLP has focused on parental perspectives, recent work includes the child agency and their experience with FLP in multilingual families. This work extends the notion of the linguistic landscape to the private family domain and uses an innovative methodological approach of "h...

In Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programmes, non-linguistic content knowledge is taught, learned and assessed in an additional language. Assessment in CLIL is arguably as important as teaching and learning, because CLIL assessment can reveal students' achievements in both content a...

Language acquisition, initiated in family interactions, continues for some children in daycare settings with less familiar interlocutors, including peers (Marcos et al., 2004). For the young child, these interactional contexts can be challenging (Cordeiro, 1999): number of participants; adult attent...

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...

Guided by the L2 Motivation Self System framework and a holistic person-centred approach to L2 motivation, the present study addresses two underexplored issues-how L2 motivational patterns form and how the patterns operate and function over time. Data were collected from 125 college-level Chinese EF...

By investigating the intercultural engagement of Chinese students in the UK as well as the 'reverse cultural shock' experienced by students who return to China after studying in the UK, this research identifies learning and social activities that effectively help students engage in intercultural com...

English as a lingua franca (ELF) has generated considerable debate during the 20+ years of intensifying research activity we have seen in this paradigm, requiring language teachers and teacher educators to reflect critically on pedagogic resources and methods. English as global lingua franca represe...

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...

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...

The objective of the NoBiPho project is to test emerging paradigms that view gender as a non-binary system, free from the postulate of the human sexual dimorphism, and to propose new modelization able to account for the human diversity. This contribution is an abstract of the major findings of this ...

        Bilingual education programmes have become popular worldwide in part because they are believed to facilitate second/foreign/additional language (L2) learning, often with English as the target L2. In such programmes, students learn content and L2 simultaneously, but a comm...

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In this autoethnographic exploration, I drew upon my insider-outsider positionality (Dwyer and Buckle 2009) as a first-generation immigrant mother of a preschool-age Chinese American child, Zixuan, and also a researcher specialized in multilingualism to examine how our family language policy and lan...

The aim of this study was to explore collective agency of early education policymakers in a period of change.  Our research questions were: What characterizes the collective agency of policy makers in early childhood education in a multilingual context? What are their agentic approach...

The economic crisis that took place in Greece at the beginning of the 21st century constitutes one of the great events in European political history. In fact, it received a wide media coverage. Likewise, journalism allows interpreting social reality so that people can understand it. Therefore, the o...

History has witnessed a plethora of language teaching proposals in the last decades ranging from structuralist-oriented practices until recent critical and sociocultural orientations. Special attention has been given to English language teaching (ELT) for the very privileged – and controversia...

Schooling in the U.S. tends to be mentalistic, meaning there is a division between mind and body wherein the former gets privileged. This privileging of the mind is particularly problematic because it legitimizes docile bodies and devalues what students know and can do with multisemiotic resources.T...

The presentation shares a personal inquiry, as a language teacher educator of the Global North, to decolonize a short-term English language teacher education program with the intent to empower teacher candidates from the Global South. Among many layers of modification, this presentation focuses on t...

Engaging with the symposium theme, this paper proposes a renewed vision of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) through a translanguaging (TL) stance, grounded in critical sociolinguistic inquiry and embodied practice. A TL theory of language asserts an activist agenda to dismantl...

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...

In this paper we explore the notion of democratic education in the current global context and what it means to "dare teach," in the words of Freire (1977, 2005).  We examine what it means to engage with issues of diversity and inequity in colonial institutional spaces as teacher-researchers and...

Our proposal is part of the Augmented Artwork Analysis project, aiming to produce an application on a digital tablet for an augmented perception and interpretation of paintings in museums. Our corpus of analysis is based on an in situ observation of the mediation practices, mobilizing several camera...

Breaking bad news is inevitable for prospective doctors, it is important for medical students to learn how to humanely communicate devastating news to patients. This study explores the discourse strategies used by Chinese medical students when conducting critical conversations via role-play scenario...

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...

Besides the internal factors including parental decisions and child agency, the broader economic, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts also have a great impact on FLP. Multiple studies indicate that children's transition to school can be a turning point for both family linguistic practices a...

In this contribution we challenge teacher education from four different angles that develop around a common core: the advocacy of linguistic diversity and plurality in school settings. Educational systems follow an exclusive structure which both evokes and is further strengthened by deficient pe...