Abstracts Archive

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...

 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 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 ...