Abstracts Archive

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.&...

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...

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...