Abstracts Archive

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...

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...

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...