Abstracts Archive

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...

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 ...

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...