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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...

This contribution will analyze the synchronic motivation of idioms (such as se fendre la poire, ´to laugh uproariously`) by showing that, contrary to what the traditional approach implies, the processes of motivation in phraseology do not differ from those operating in the lexicon in general.A...

In the German-language discourse on gender fair language (called „gendering/Gendern" in the German speaking world), a decided pro and con prevails to a large extent, and both sides substantiate their stances also scientifically (Kotthoff 2020). The lecture will address the question of whe...

This paper presents a chronological study of the changing status of Malayalam in Singapore across three different periods over the last century, identified on the basis of significant migration trends: (1)1900 - 1960s, a period predominantly oriented toward language maintenance; (2) 1970 - 1990s, a ...

The current sociopolitical situation around the world is forcing scholars and language educators to rethink our pedagogies, methodologies, and approaches. How are academics, researchers, and language educators, engaging with the social and political reality? Or are they? How do we educate and raise ...

This paper is about building solidarity in language-policy activism. If racialized hierarchies of languages-and of the people who speak them-are so stable, then under what conditions is it possible to unite across difference and combat racial and linguistic stratification?The project behind the pape...

In order to interact properly, speakers need to understand a variety of written and oral information while considering the context in which they are produced. Thus they need to develop interactional skills. However, previous studies have proven that speakers with low levels of education do not posse...

Recent research has suggested that when transitioning to English medium instruction (EMI) tertiary education, students from L1-medium secondary schools may develop strong autonomy and strategically regulate their English learning to handle the challenges of listening to academic content in English (...

What teachers need to know about a DUB approach to language and language learning so they can let go of their "learning to use" approaches and confidently move to a "using to learn" approach.  

Basing our observations on a survey on the use of corpora in translation practice that we conducted with two groups of lexicography students in France and Italy, and on our research experience in lexicography and corpus linguistics, we will speak out in favour of dictionaries to defend their added v...

Our proposal aims to problematize how the way of characterizing mental disorders, in particular of migrant people, illustrated with obviously clinical but also social and political issues. « CRP » or  « PASS » offer care to people who are victims of trauma, particularly war or linked to exi...

In this paper, I investigate the lived experiences with English of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong from roughly 30 hours of recorded ethnographic interviews and fieldwork with 28 key participants talking about language in relation to their living and working experiences. Employing linguistic ...

Los fenómenos lingüísticos en los contextos de interacción digital resultan de gran interés en la actualidad. En este marco, el estudio de las estrategias pragmáticas (Cantamutto, 2018) que utilizan los hablantes en los entornos más conversacionales de la interacción digital cobra interés t...

Phraseological units (PUs) should be part of a long-term acquisition process (Gonzalez-Rey 2007, Sułkowska 2016, Chen 2021). However, phraseodidactics are often ad-dressed only at the advanced-improvement level in teaching and textbooks (Gonzalez-Rey 2007, Chen 2021).Bilingual dictionaries are "the...

Educational and professional assessment of knowledge and skills have been strongly associated with 'standards'. The use of standards or proficiency benchmarks in language assessment in test-driven systems, broadly speaking, presupposes at least a degree of 'buying-in' on the part of test-takers and ...

This study aims to investigate the discursive construction of polylogal conflict and identity and the underexplored role of multilingualism therein in an online community of practice through scaling analysis based on a case study of Li Ziqi's YouTube channel. Supplementing the existing interactionis...

The ECLE network comprises researchers from different disciplines who share a common interest in investigating affective/emotional aspects of language learning and teaching. Members draw on different methodological (qualitative and quantitative) and epistemological (pedagogical, socio-linguistic an...

The Arab world population is more than 453 million people in 22 countries (WPR, 2022). Each country adopts at least one variety of Arabic, and these variations may be too different to the extent they are not intelligible or understandable to one another.&...

I provide a thematic analysis of stakeholder discourse, namely Catholics concerning the use of the vernacular for worship on the social media platform Reddit.com. For centuries, a mutual suspicion has existed between the Catholic Church and the forces of modernity. Yet with Vatican II (1962-1965), t...

Since its establishment, Israel has administered and maintained two segregated schooling systems: one for the Jewish (Hebrew-speaking) majority and one for the Palestinian (Arabic-speaking) minority. In July 2018, Israel passed a Nation State Law (NSL) that defined Israel as the homeland of the Jewi...

The child's language experience is informed by participation in both dyadic and polyadic interactions. In polyadic interactions, the child may occupy the role of speaker, but also of various receiver roles (Goffman, 1981; Goodwin, 2006) and participate in these interactions in a more or less direct ...

The linguistic reality of the Basque education system continues to be a challenge for teachers. However, according to studies from the Genoa School (Idiazabal, 1990) and the latest contributions to the multilingual reality of our schools through sustainable translanguaging (Cenoz & Gorter, 2016)...

The goals of this research project are to: (1) understand teachers' perspectives of how to meet the culturally and linguistically responsive needs of d/Deaf and hard of hearing learners internationally who are multilingual (IDML); (2) empower teachers through the process of reflection using video ex...

Diversity and Inclusion have become the buzz word in language education and more recently in the field of applied linguistics. Although on paper, some educational policies advocate for the inclusion and diversity of knowledges, content, programs and approaches to teaching, the reality remains at a c...

Twitter has become a productive scenario for creating and reproducing polarised political narratives and ideologies, as it enables far-right populist leaders, among others, to reach wide audiences with their antagonistic, affective-driven rhetoric (Breeze, 2020). In view of the rise of these extreme...

Given the disparity in sociopolitical values, viewpoint diversity is an inescapable feature of any issue which invites collective consideration. Rawls (2005) argues that even on intractably contentious questions such as those around morality and religion, disagreement is not only an inevitable but a...

The main objective of this talk is to study the inclusion policies of French scientific journals for authors from the African continent. Using Nancy Fraser's theory of social justice, I wish to shed light on the strategies implemented by editorial boards to promote the publication of this category o...

L'éducation aux langues dans le contexte luxembourgeois est un exercice continu qui concerne toutes les matières enseignées. Le statut de pays trilingue et multilingue du Luxembourg (il s'agit de trois langues voire plus en interaction constante et non trois langues distribuée géographiquement)...

Whereas the potential of picturebooks in primary ELT can be regarded as undisputed, research so far offers few perspectives on their value for intermediate and advanced learners of English. With our presentation, we argue for including picturebooks as a new format of literature in the context of sec...

This paper has five key aims:To trace links between ways of learning Ancient Greek 1500-2023To consider the impact of different resources on learning Ancient Greek.To consider an author-teacher's work as a form of ideological exposition.To reflect on the relationship between ancient and modern langu...

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AbstractThis research brings to the fore the language teacher to reflect upon its path in the construction of its own professional identity. Drawing on a critical praxis orientation, experienced and preservice French language teachers navigate into their experiences in and out, during and after thei...

This paper asks about the possibility of human connection in divided communities. I draw on two concepts: 1) semiotic repertoires: communication resources that are embodied and embedded in the physical settings of people's encounters and whose meanings emerge in activity (Canagarajah, 2021; Kust...

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...

This study examines the neural machine translation (NMT) into French of specialised texts written in Spanish. The data corresponds to a parallel corpus composed of (i) technical texts explaining the use of cryptocurrencies and (ii) the NMT of these texts by DeepL and Systran. The analysis will focus...

This paper presents text corpora analyses of political and public discourses on foreign language (FL) education alongside statistical data on actual uptake. It does so by comparing both declared (official) FL policy, debated policies and actual uptake of FL learning in a number of different European...

This paper looks at four Kabyle immigrant families' language practices in three social sites: The Kabyle/Amazigh cultural organisation in London, online platforms and the participants' domestic environment. The Kabyles are a sub-ethnic group indigenous to Algeria. The participants involved in this s...

The issue of language education of adult refugees plays a very important role in the integration of refugee and migrant populations and the recognition of linguistic repertoires and multilingual needs may form the planning dynamics of relevant programs and tailor-made courses. Linguistic integration...

Societal polarization can take a heavy toll on equitable relations of power, eroding people's capacity to see "the other" as anything but a threat, resulting in distrust, discrimination or violent social conflict. Sociolinguistics has illuminated these dynamics, constructing critically-conscious the...

In bilingual environments where languages meet and intermingle, it is challenging for children to carve out their own bilingual interactional space. Often shared cross-culturally and accessible, gestures might represent more stable forms since words may vary in each code for the same function (Nicol...

Using conversation analysis, this study traces the development of interactional competence by a novice guest-relation officer at a hotel in Vietnam in her interactions with guests in English as a lingua franca. Our data include 110 audio-recorded guest-escorting walks over 10 months. Close examinati...

Although meetings are becoming more frequent in professional situations, participants are still poorly prepared in their training for this exchange format, which nevertheless directly conditions their work. If they are invited to a meeting, whatever their qualification or status, they encounter diff...

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, through a captation mobil...

The world is currently experiencing demographically unprecedented aging. The problems of China's rapidly aging population appears even more serious. Studying social representations is particularly relevant for understanding social issues in the current state of aging in China. We studied the social ...

One of the most influential movements on language in recent years has been the growing attention to language rights, particularly as they affect linguistic minorities (both indigenous and migrant groups).   Research on language rights has focused on formal language-rights statements (e.g., by t...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that teaching EFL in Latin America presents innumerable challenges, such as students' low motivation and alienation towards the English lessons, the lack of resources, low proficiency and a primarily grammar-based approach. To tackle these issues, we propose th...

 As an example of Mexican teacher educators' and English student-teachers' attempts at decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching, this paper presents the results of one particular critical-ethnographic-action-research study involving three student-teachers working with low-socio-economic-s...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of a one-way dual language bilingual education program on students' academic growth. The specific program was launched in 2017-2018 in Delaware, U.S. in a K-12 school with Greek as L2. The school offers a choice between two programs: (a) the immersion, ...

In the context of an increasing recruitment of nurses from abroad to overcome the shortage of professionals in the German health care system, multilingual language constellations in nursing are becoming more common. This doctoral project therefore aims to investigate nurse-patient communication in m...

The development of narrative competence is considered one of the basic competences in language acquisition. Children need to learn how to construct coherent stories, how to build coherence and meaning. Every language has its own linguistic features that come into play. How do children who grow up mu...

This study is an experience report based on two ethnographic studies on rural multilingualism, carried out in Lower Fungom, an intensely linguistically diverse, rural area in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. Rural multilingualism is still an under-researched area and to study a phenomenon with a lo...

Bachman, L. F. (2000). Modern Language Testing at the Turn of the Century : Assuring That What We Count Counts. Language Testing, 17(1), 1‑42.Figueras, N., North, B., Takala, S., Verhelst, N., & Van Avermaet, P. (2005). Relating examinations to the Common European Framework : A manual. Lan...

Videogaming is a very popular activity and different studies have shown how players organize their gaming activities in physical presence or at a distance. More recently and with regard to the social role of videogaming, non-players and their practices came into the focus: do (and if so how do) non-...

In this presentation, I will focus on how parents and children interact as agents through realization of home language strategies and practices.

This action research study drawing from ethnographic methods centered on how performative storytelling positioned adult immigrant and refugee English learners in the US exploring ethical issues related to engaging learners in public storytelling. The study took place at a nonprofit center for adult ...

English title: Dealing withunclear symptoms: the interactional work of the interpreter when describing psychophysical issuesDuring the problem presentation phase of a doctor-patient interaction, the patient has the possibility to describe his health issues in his own terms (Heritage & ...

This presentation examines the results of both surveys and interviews of raters of a multi-language, large-scale assessment. By examining rater perceptions both widely, via a questionnaire and narrowly, via individual interviews, the study explores the questions: do raters using the same scale have ...

This presentation aims to show how aging is represented in cosmetics advertising discourse whose purpose is to convince and seduce the female consumer. It is mainly about deciphering the anti-aging discourse through the analysis of the linguistic features as well as the visual strategies implemented...

In our presentation, we discuss the need for research-based assessments for Spanish heritage speakers in immersion programs in the United States. For researchers, these assessments would allow us to conduct wide-scale analyses of how dual-language programs affect development in heritage bilinguals. ...

Learning groups have become more heterogeneous in all areas of the educational system. The present study focuses on the perspective of allochthonous multilingual student-teachers toward language and heritage and their effect on their future role as teachers in multilingual classrooms. What teacher e...

In the current context of the attack on education, insurgent, decolonial pedagogies in Brazil and Palestine play an important role in organizing spaces for disclosing and destabilizing hegemonic power systems and creating the language and conditions of possibility for the future (Walsh, 2019). ...

Australian higher education is increasingly understood in terms of preparing students to be 'work-ready' graduates, and 'authentic' assessment (Gulikers, Bastiaens & Kirschner, 2004) seen as a means to that end, particularly in the case of vocational degrees. For students studying generalist Hum...

Our study focuses on a 10-year corpus of suicide prevention chat rooms: interactions take place between callers in a distressing, vulnerable situation who connect to the chat room, and non-professional volunteer listeners, who are responsible for receiving the callers' words and are trained in s...

This paper explores arts-based approaches to educating teachers multilingually, by engaging pre-service teachers with their own multilingual identity. It is framed within a multilingual orientation, as the teachers are considered and treated as multilinguals in their own right and foregrounds the ro...

Social network analysis is an emerging field of research in Applied Linguistics; the scope and utility of mapping the social realities of language learners is yet to be determined. Although sociocultural research in language learning has long recognized the primacy of social interaction for language...

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 ...

This study looks at two young bilingual Japanese children who return to their home country after a prolonged stay in another linguistic milieu. Firstly, both linguistic and neuro-linguistic data are examined to see if similar changes occur. Then, language retention and attrition are scrutinized in t...

This paper will present a follow-up of a large-scale survey study (n=271) of language learning strategies of multilingual learners reported in Dmitrenko (2016, 2017). The literature review included three research fields: strategy research within Second Language Acquisition, research on multilinguali...

Since 1999, The Frye literary Festival is a bilingual celebration of the literary landscape with writers from all over Canada and beyond participating in literary events in Moncton, New Brunswick. This presentation examines a digital data corpus that focuses on the queer language practices observed ...

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Literature recognizes that teachers play a key role in the implementation of changes proposed by the reforms and newly emerging societal challenges. This is why understanding language teacher identity and the ways, strategies and pedagogies language teacher education programs use to prepare teachers...

Idioms present a challenge not only to linguistic theory, but also to natural language applications. Despite a wealth of excellent literature on phraseology, in practice the linguistic information given in French dictionaries about idioms tends to be quite confusing and fragmented. The most substant...

Whereas French immersion programs have traditionally served predominantly English-speaking, Canadian-born families, student demographics are changing as a result of increased migration to Canada. Researchers have found that newcomer, multilingual students and families are often highly motivated to l...

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This presentation indicates partial results of a research on the impacts of the literary text in English classes of a public high school in the Southern of Brazil. Lessons that have already been developed were built in the light of Vygotsky's Sociocultural Historical Theory (SCHT) and aimed at liter...

This presentation deals with the possible connections between the linguistic security and insecurity of higher education students of French at the National University of La Plata (Argentina) and the phonic features of their oral productions. The aim of the analysis...

European language education policy is an important part of language policy and planning research, as it is related to the improvement of national language capacity. Under the framework of the theoretical framework of National Language Capacity, and looking back the major developments, characteristic...

The Canary Islands present, due to their insularity and their distance from the metropolis, a particular interest for a research of a cognitive and discursive nature that contributes to revealing the conceptualization mechanisms used in political discourse. This research tries to answer to the follo...

Remediation reform is a neoliberal-oriented policy movement in U.S. higher education that aims to increase college completion rates. While a major focus of the movement has been on changing language education requirements for entering students, implications for multilingual and English learner stude...

Purpose: In Western contexts and languages, teacher's comments and questions during shared book reading have been found to facilitate children's vocabulary development. It is unclear to what extent such findings can be replicated in other contexts and languages, and the mechanisms of ...

The study explores family tensions and discursive contradictions that emerge from the nexus of heritage language learning (HLL), education, and the family. Two interviews with Russian-speaking divorced mothers and the guidelines for HLL in the Finnish National Core Curriculum for basi...

The number of students studying abroad in non-language learning-oriented, English-medium degree programs in China has increased dramatically. Despite many students plan to pursue a career in China, a growing trend in Chinese higher education institutes is to offer programs taught exclusively in...

This study explores: (1) how players perform collaboration in the virtual world with a "constrained set of possibilities afforded by the game" (Bennerstedt & Ivarsson 2010) through controlling the actions of their avatars, and  (2) how do competent players (creatively) utilize the limi...

For over 65,000 years, Australia has been home to linguistically and culturally diverse communities, hosting among the oldest continuing languages of anywhere in the world. With one in five Australian residents using a language other than English at home, learners in Australian classrooms come from ...

This study presents and compares the results of two instructional programs of L2 French in the Netherlands after 6 years of secondary school specifically in speaking skills. The first program, commonly used in the Netherlands can be termed a "weak" version of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) an...

Playback interviews were pioneered as a method in interactional sociolinguistics to elicit language users' retrospective commentary on linguistic practices (Gumperz 1982; Tannen 2005 [1984]). In the interview session, audio or video recordings of interactions are played back to the participants to a...

The representation of difference in human encounters has presented challenges for ethnography. The urge to explain the 'culture' of the 'other' seems to demand a homogenisation and simplification of experience which leads to a shoring-up of inequitable relations of power. Encounters beyond the bound...

The permanent archiving of corpora collected in Conversational Analysis is too often threatened by the Research Ethics Commissions, regulatory bodies that have multiplied in recent years, in Portugal as in many other countries. The researchers' ability to negotiate with these bodies depends larg...

KeywordsPre-In-service teachers' development | Applied linguistics | Interdisciplinarity | Diversity | Inclusion.According to the 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 258 million children and youth were entirely excluded from education, with poverty as the main obstacle to access it. The ch...

A pedagogy for language(s) education within a plurilingual and intercultural orientation in contemporary times needs to consider the lifeworlds of students and a capability to move between multiple worlds of knowing and being in the context of linguistic and cultural diversity (Liddicoat & Scari...

This paper aims to shed light on inequality, power relations and restrictions among users of Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) to explore a more realistic picture of BELF in the diverse workplace worldwide. While BELF research has accumulated valuable insights into how businesspeople commun...

This study on lay discourse about legal discourse analyses online public reactions to court decision on Sarah Halimi case, a French Jewish woman, killed by her neighbor in Paris in 2017. The psychiatric assessments concluded that the murderer committed the crime during an "acute delirious puff" and ...

Despite many years of efforts to promote multilingualism in schools, it can be said that this has not been successful. The main reason for this is the monolingual habitus, which is still prevalent in German schools (Dirim, 2017; Bredthauer, 2018; Mast & Sachse, 2021). The school is the...

Language and culture are interdependent. Textbooks, given their role as an important source of target language input and culture knowledge in second language teaching, have become a crucial medium for representing cultural values, beliefs, and  stereotypes or misunderstandings. Questions relate...

This presentation will report on two methodological innovations that I have developed over the course of a large-scale examination of the strategies and sources of regulation of international students at a major university in London, UK. The project involved several sequential studies with more than...

This paper describes ideologies of parents, Russian-speaking urban middle-class Kazakhs, on schooling their children in Kazakh. The choice of Kazakh as MOI is typically presented as the only way for children whose home language is Russian to learn Kazakh, which is viewed as required for social mobil...

This study was conducted with the aim of analysing how the public in Malaysia, perceive reports about climate change in Malaysian newspapers. Data was collected from an online newspaper published in Malaysia (May 2017 until May 2021), with "climate change Malaysia" being used as the search term. A t...

This paper discusses the preliminary findings of a transnational quantitative study examining factors impacting home language transmission, focusing specifically on social and affective variables. Thus, the study contributes to the slowly growing literature adopting quantitative approaches, in a fie...