Abstracts Archive

Little research has been produced to evaluate the comparability of alignment claims of tests of different languages that target the same levels of the Common European Framework of Reference. This presentation describes an innovative procedure to put standard-setting results for reading tasks in Engl...

This proposal describes the language used on Twitter in politics in Spanish and in English, which has been widely studied by several researchers (Zappavigna, 2012, Johansson et al. 2018, Carrió Pastor et al., 2021). In this vein, the use of metadiscourse markers is one aspect that shows ...

In this paper, we present the results of an intervention research which focus on how translanguaging practices through the breaking of norms aid French language learners in learning to write creatively a new language as well as in acquiring it.

This paper contributes to the concept and practice of a posthumanist Applied Linguistics, as proposed by Alastair Pennycook, with a broader focus on human-machine sociotechnical relations. An alternative to the tradition of human-computer interaction research in Computer Science is sought in favour ...

Theory:In the wake of #BlackLivesMatter and toppled statues of emblematic colonists, teacher education and research in Applied Linguistics in Germany has been paying more attention to the political goals of social justice by addressing inclusion and diversity in revised syllabi and EFL teaching...

Bridging competing ideologies: From utilitarianism and social division to communicative action in French Higher EducationMarc Deneire, ATILF-CNRS, Université de LorraineIn a large scale survey that I conducted in French universities in 2013 concerning the teaching of English, a clear dichotom...

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 and...

Return migration from the United States to Mexico has increased over the past fifteen years. This phenomenon affects youth who face problems when continuing their education in Mexico, such as bureaucratic procedures, lack of social networks and linguistic challenges that affect their school performa...

In the Castilian-Spanish-dominated sociolinguistic terrains of Galicia, this paper examines the rise of grassroots-level actors or agents in the form of parents who have decided to contest the government's low-intensity language policy models through various bottom-up efforts. The term low-intensity...

This presentation introduces the ReN, English as a Medium of Education, Multilingualism and the SDGs: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. It explores the role of applied linguistics in contributing to the realisation of the SDGs and thus how it can foster the development of equity, diversity and inclus...

While the field (and the world) has changed since Pennycook's (1990, 2001) call for critical applied linguistics, what remains is the "uneven world" (Pennycook, 2022) in which we live, learn, and teach. With the goal of bringing more balance into this uneven world, critical language teachers must ex...

This study aims to investigate the linguistic features (LFs) of fluency exhibited by English learners with different proficiency levels (PLs). 39 English learners were divided into four groups based on their International English Language Testing System (IELTS) speaking scores: low-level (L) at band...

I consider here the impact of prevailing norms surrounding gender and sexuality on LGBTQ+ young people. I introduce a linguistic ethnography project with LGBTQ+ youth in England which uses a queer discourse analytic approach to examine how they construct their identities and to show what this reveal...

In this paper, we first address the question of how language ideology research relates to similar research fields dealing with attitudes towards language (for example, attitude research, language awareness, folk linguistics). Then we suggest that not only language ideologies of non-linguists should ...

During this symposium we propose to present the result of the analysis of oral diaries and interviews of French learners who are not only aware of the improvement of their oral skills through informal activities (TV series and movies, music and games), but also recognized that oral diaries activitie...

This presentation describes a Japanese as a Foreign Language course using Makoto Shinkai's animated fantasy film Your Name (Kimi no na wa). In this presentation, I propose that authentic content with identifiable characters in the form of anime can stimulate class discussion and creative output.

This qualitative multiple case study explored the usage of a cutting-edge methodology, retrodictive qualitative modelling (RQM) (Dörnyei, 2014), in complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) research in Applied Linguistics. By tracing the motivational dynamics of four high-proficiency and low-proficien...

This study investigates the changes and recent development of English education in the most closed-off country North Korea with its own Juche (i.e., self-reliance) ideology advocated by Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, analyzing the characteristics of secondary English textbooks p...

While earlier research in FLP has focused on parental perspectives, recent work includes the child agency and their experience with FLP in multilingual families. This work extends the notion of the linguistic landscape to the private family domain and uses an innovative methodological approach of "h...

In Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programmes, non-linguistic content knowledge is taught, learned and assessed in an additional language. Assessment in CLIL is arguably as important as teaching and learning, because CLIL assessment can reveal students' achievements in both content a...

Language acquisition, initiated in family interactions, continues for some children in daycare settings with less familiar interlocutors, including peers (Marcos et al., 2004). For the young child, these interactional contexts can be challenging (Cordeiro, 1999): number of participants; adult attent...