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...

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After migration, over three decades ago from their ancestral lands, the diaspora Maka (Matacoan) community of Itapua in Paraguay is striving for and resisting to maintain their indigenous language alive.Through collaborative and active participatory linguistic research, there is an attempt to regist...

This paper presents a newly published edited book titled Multilingual Israel: Language Ideologies, Survival, Integration, and Hybridization (Multilingual Matters), examining dimensions of Israel's multilingualism, taking Joshua Fishman's notions of language loyalty and shift as a star...

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...

We will share a pedagogic initiative for English learning, carried out in a multi-grade rural school in Patagonia, Argentina. The experience is part of an ongoing four-year-long participatory action-research project and involves primary schoolers between 9 and 14 years old, the rural school communit...

This research is based on a corpus of multimodal texts (billboards, signage elements, posts on social networks, etc.) collected in the city of Montreal with a view to enriching the teaching of French to adult migrants in Quebec. First, a semiotic analysis inspired by the work of van Leeuwen (2008) w...

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Since the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, conference interpreting, like all other spheres of human activity, has had to undergo a rapid adaptation to the new conditions of life. Thus, the technological means available in today's world have led to the consolidation and rapid develop...

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...

Phase shift is a key concept in development in CDST, for which change points can be a favorable sign. However, phase shifts remain elusive in L2 writing research due to a lack of sufficiently dense data to detect them and a lack of recognition when they occur. Moreover, even...

While research into the internationalisation and Englishisation of higher education is flourishing, it has so far paid little attention to the discipline of music and the performing arts. This contribution aims to address this research gap and presents an exploratory study into multilingualism at a ...

The expression "How are you?" is probably one of the most studied in interactional studies, both in its phatic, ritual or structuring dimensions.  In medical interactions, research has shown that this question is interpreted according to its sequential location, and that it can also be ambiguou...

As an introduction to the symposium on the globalization of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice's commitments in universities and in the teaching of French L2, this presentation will first discuss the impact of anti-racist and anti-sexist social movements on the creation of academic unit...

Miscommunication in healthcare is common. When communicating about risk and certainty, practitioners often use epistemic adverbs (e.g., possibly etc.) to explain the likelihood of outcomes or conditions. Previous work revealed subtle differences between monolingual English speakers in Cana...

In Hungary a word, an un-word, a poetic word and a youth word of the year have been announced every year since 2010. All these words are chosen by linguists affiliated with the Magyar Nyelv Szolgáltató Iroda which corresponds to the Plain English Campaign, only the choice of the youth word is made...

Our paper intends to show how a practitioner and citizen research firmly rooted in interactional and applied linguistics contributes to(1) better understand how some actors in our society take social co-responsibility to fight against the risks of financial breakdown that could lead individuals and ...