Abstracts Archive

This study investigated storytelling among two Japanese L2 learners of English during a five-month study abroad program in the US or Canada and explores their progression over time concerning aspects of turn-taking. 

In my talk, I will present an innovative approach to member checking - diagrammatic elicitation, which involves asking participants to comment on a diagram emerging from the data analysis. I will demonstrate how it was implemented in a study of six Armenian EFL teacher self ...

Teaching French as a foreign language in the UK context, has historically been a transmissive approach, where pupils find themselves at the receiving end of the teaching process. In most cases, learning French, seems very alien to students' own social reality and identity. Cultural elements in teach...

In my talk I am going to analyse changing language ideologies in German linguistics using the example of the debate on women's language in the linguistic journal Linguistische Berichte in 1978 and 1979. My argument is that research insight on language and gender were marginalised in German linguisti...

This project aims at taking the DUB turn at university level for language students whose learning objectives go beyond second language proficiency and also include sociocultural competences such as analyzing cultural specificities, understanding culture and navigating culture. To do so, we ...

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This presentation details a project to create the first digital archive documenting the linguistic diversity and minority endangered languages of Hong Kong. It focuses on different languages as well as language varieties that are part of Hong Kong's heritage. The aim of the project is to create an e...

The presentation is concerned with semi-guided story-telling as elicitation method in Spanish, Portuguese, Aymara, Guaraní, Maltese, Sicilian, Papia Kristang and Chabacano. Therefore the experiences and results of the use of a picture story as stimulus for story telling are analyzed and evaluated i...

The need for personnel to take care of dependent elderly people is only increasing in France and in the rest of the world due to the extension of life and the general aging of the population. Nursing homes and home support services face recruitment difficulties. One of the solutions would be to allo...

In this presentation I align with the recent articulation of the third wind of language learning strategies (LLS) research-and, particularly, with the view that we need to move beyond identification and classification of strategies, and to delve into the myriad factors that motivate students' strate...

English language education in California's post-secondary education systems remains essentially neocolonial in its persisting monolingual habitus, while serving the student population that is majority Latinx (Hispanic) and bilingual. To bring social justice and inclusion into language education mean...

This study presents a learning experiment involving a series of Spanish instruction innovations, with an emphasis on the use of context information to promote the acquisition of Aspect in Spanish. Building on the theoretical framework of the Trinitarian Grammar (Feng & Shi, 2011; Feng, 2014), th...

Using critical discourse analysis, this paper examines the foremost German case on the right to freedom of conscience, state control of education, and Islamic dress. The research is based on a corpus consisting of the case's four judicial rulings; it represents the German court system from...