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)...

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...