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...

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...

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...