Abstracts Archive

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...

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...