Abstracts Archive

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...

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...

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 ...