Abstracts Archive

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...

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 ...

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...