Abstracts Archive

In primary and secondary education in the United States, where multilingual policies have recently expanded, tension has emerged between discourses of plurality aiming to center linguistically, culturally, and racially minoritized communities on one hand and hegemonic privileging of white, English-d...

Whilst discussions around language policy in Northern Ireland (NI) primarily focus on its two indigenous languages: Irish (Gaelic) and Ulster-Scots, many other languages are spoken in this geopolitical context, especially those of the transnational communities. Having been settled since th...

In French, psycholinguistic studies have shown that the generic use of the masculine gender results in a male bias in mental representations of gender. To counteract this effect, French speakers have begun using various gender-fair forms like joggeur·euses, joggeuses et joggeurs or un groupe de jog...

This contribution to the symposium is based on findings from a mixed-methods study on pre-service teachers' beliefs about multilingualism and language use. A full cohort of pre-service middle school teachers in Germany (n = 259) was surveyed before and after completing a compulsory module on multili...

Responding to global challenges during the pandemic times, two teacher-researchers designed learning tasks in a way that plurilingual transnational undergraduate learners develop their intercultural awareness and inclusive global citizenship, and advance multiliteracies through asynchronous multimod...

This talk aims to probe issues raised when language learners, teachers and teacher educators conduct fully inclusive practitioner research in applied linguistics. The themes of inclusivity, diversity and interculturality will be explored through the lens of exploratory practice. I examine the impact...

Our life and work as educators have changed significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other societal and global issues. Such challenges have placed ELT educators into unprecedented times. They must deal with increasing gaps of access and equity in quality education, especially for students from...