Abstracts Archive

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...

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 ...

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...