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AbstractThis research brings to the fore the language teacher to reflect upon its path in the construction of its own professional identity. Drawing on a critical praxis orientation, experienced and preservice French language teachers navigate into their experiences in and out, during and after thei...

This paper asks about the possibility of human connection in divided communities. I draw on two concepts: 1) semiotic repertoires: communication resources that are embodied and embedded in the physical settings of people's encounters and whose meanings emerge in activity (Canagarajah, 2021; Kust...

This presentation aims to show how aging is represented in cosmetics advertising discourse whose purpose is to convince and seduce the female consumer. It is mainly about deciphering the anti-aging discourse through the analysis of the linguistic features as well as the visual strategies implemented...

In our presentation, we discuss the need for research-based assessments for Spanish heritage speakers in immersion programs in the United States. For researchers, these assessments would allow us to conduct wide-scale analyses of how dual-language programs affect development in heritage bilinguals. ...

Learning groups have become more heterogeneous in all areas of the educational system. The present study focuses on the perspective of allochthonous multilingual student-teachers toward language and heritage and their effect on their future role as teachers in multilingual classrooms. What teacher e...

In the current context of the attack on education, insurgent, decolonial pedagogies in Brazil and Palestine play an important role in organizing spaces for disclosing and destabilizing hegemonic power systems and creating the language and conditions of possibility for the future (Walsh, 2019). ...

Australian higher education is increasingly understood in terms of preparing students to be 'work-ready' graduates, and 'authentic' assessment (Gulikers, Bastiaens & Kirschner, 2004) seen as a means to that end, particularly in the case of vocational degrees. For students studying generalist Hum...

Our study focuses on a 10-year corpus of suicide prevention chat rooms: interactions take place between callers in a distressing, vulnerable situation who connect to the chat room, and non-professional volunteer listeners, who are responsible for receiving the callers' words and are trained in s...

This paper explores arts-based approaches to educating teachers multilingually, by engaging pre-service teachers with their own multilingual identity. It is framed within a multilingual orientation, as the teachers are considered and treated as multilinguals in their own right and foregrounds the ro...

Social network analysis is an emerging field of research in Applied Linguistics; the scope and utility of mapping the social realities of language learners is yet to be determined. Although sociocultural research in language learning has long recognized the primacy of social interaction for language...

Language and culture are interdependent. Textbooks, given their role as an important source of target language input and culture knowledge in second language teaching, have become a crucial medium for representing cultural values, beliefs, and  stereotypes or misunderstandings. Questions relate...

This presentation will report on two methodological innovations that I have developed over the course of a large-scale examination of the strategies and sources of regulation of international students at a major university in London, UK. The project involved several sequential studies with more than...

This paper describes ideologies of parents, Russian-speaking urban middle-class Kazakhs, on schooling their children in Kazakh. The choice of Kazakh as MOI is typically presented as the only way for children whose home language is Russian to learn Kazakh, which is viewed as required for social mobil...

This study was conducted with the aim of analysing how the public in Malaysia, perceive reports about climate change in Malaysian newspapers. Data was collected from an online newspaper published in Malaysia (May 2017 until May 2021), with "climate change Malaysia" being used as the search term. A t...

This paper discusses the preliminary findings of a transnational quantitative study examining factors impacting home language transmission, focusing specifically on social and affective variables. Thus, the study contributes to the slowly growing literature adopting quantitative approaches, in a fie...