Abstracts Archive

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...

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...

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 ...