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...

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Drawing on Hong Kong's rather limited and homogeneous sexuality education background which tend to suppress "sensitive" and "controversial" topics (Wong, 2000; Ho and Tsang, 2002), this paper explores the potential challenges that social workers and transgender individuals have when having transgend...

In  2021, the Interagency Language Roundtable revised its Skill Level Descriptions for Proficiency to focus on ability rather than traits (Purpura, 2016) and move toward measuring effective communication, focusing more on task, meaning, and contextual appropriateness. Efforts were made to remov...

Researchers and educators have strived to examine how everyday practices, interactions, and texts help (re)produce or problematize structural inequalities. Referred to as critical pedagogy, this philosophy of education, however, has been criticized for its assumed universality; there has been disapp...

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Language has operated as a vehicle for debate about cultural, national, and individual identity throughout history. Social media and language use in digitised contexts have allowed the study of the intricacies of identity negotiation and community construction to be explored more closely. The discou...

Participating in an international experience in a foreign country is many times seen as the most favourable option when it comes to learning a second language. In the same line, aspects such as intercultural competence (IC) also seem to take advantage of such stays (Heinzmann et al., 2015), and this...

World language programs in the US experience a myriad of equity issues. Some issues are a result of programmatic structures, while others are imposed on programs by the school, district, or state, or at the micro and macro levels. These equity issues became even more pronounced in light of the globa...

Schools throughout the globe are experiencing a growing number of pupils with a linguistic and culturally diverse background, leading to the emergence of new pedagogical challenges. These have highlighted both newly qualified and experienced teachers' lack of knowledge and skills for dealing with th...

In India, students enrolled in a skill-based educational programme such as engineering and management, usually get hired by companies while they are in the final year of their degree. To test their knowledge and ability, in addition to interviewing them, potential employers make the students partici...

In this presentation I use an autoethnographic approach to examine three events of language-related "failures," and which also highlighted the negative perceptions and distress of both participants and researcher regarding participant multilingualism. In the first example, I discuss my discomfort wi...

It is widely acknowledged that highly automatized and implicit knowledge (henceforth automatized-implicit knowledge) should be aimed for in language teaching and learning. Automatized-implicit knowledge – rather than unautomatized explicit knowledge – allows learners to use language accurately a...

Barko-Alva (2022) and others provide evidence of the need for training that supports pedagogical language knowledge (PLK) among dual language bilingual education (DLBE) teachers. Following prior research, we conducted a qualitative study to examine the level of confidence of four Spanish DLBE teache...

Numerous studies have pointed to a "native English speaker" hiring preference within the worldwide TESOL industry (e.g., Bernstein & Woosnam, 2019). With limited empirical backing and/or theoretical exploration, the rationale for this policy has mainly been attributed to native speakerism (Holli...

Foreign language (FL) aptitude has been defined as a set of cognitive abilities that play a major role in both second and FL learning. (Li, 2022). Apart from MLAT-E(lementary) (Carroll & Sapon, 2002), which has shown good predictive validity in a number of studies conducted in different L1 conte...

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...

At a public, land grant University in the northeast in the United States, we are revising our language teacher education curriculum to align with Community-Engaged, Anti-Racist (CEAR) Pedagogy. In this presentation, we share the CEAR principles and practices guiding our framework, our process as we ...

Dual language (DL) education is an approach that promotes grade-level academic achievement, bilingualism and biliteracy, and sociocultural competence (SCC) to integrated groups of students through content-language integrated instruction. Although it makes sense that SCC is important for students' we...

Through this submitted contribution, we present the recent NARRANDO project from which we aim to gain a better understanding of the transversal mobilization and discursive integration of lexical, syntactic and macro-syntactic, prosodic, and bodily resources of Spanish storytelling in talk-in-interac...

This paper investigates the success story of language maintenance in Arab families in Iran. Taking Fishman's (1991) emphasis on micro face-to-face interactions in language maintenance processes as our point of departure, we argue that, for such to happen, families need to live in a sociolinguistic m...

Disciplinary meaning-making in CLIL can be understood as observable and researchable material processes, with mediums and flows (Lemke and Lin, 2022) of the subject-specific language and beyond. This symposium paper reconceptualises the roles of language and multimodality (Kress & Leeuwen, 1996; Lin...

How do educators address and meet the needs of students whose languages, cultures, and lived experiences differ from the educators working with them in an 'uneven world'? This presentation details two primary school teachers' participation in a book group project in a professional developm...

The Handbook, published in April 2022 by leading players in the field of language teaching and assessment: the British Council, UKALTA,EALTA and  ALTE, and is available online. The Handbook provides practical and accessible guidance to assist with the process of CEFR alignme...

Positive interdependence is a situation of mutual reliance between individuals oriented towards the achievement of mutual goals (Johnson & Johnson, 2005). When applied to language education, these goals are linked to language activities in which individuals thrive on peer interactions and tool u...

This presentation discusses the main findings from the Welcoming Languages project. During the course of a year, a group of educators in Scottish primary schools learnt Arabic as one of the languages spoken by children and families from refugee backgrounds. The aims were: (i) to include Arabic in Sc...

This paper examines the impact of the local tea industry on the language ecology of the geographically remote Blang community in China. The paper takes an ecology perspective in language planning where all languages in the locality are given equal attention. These languages in the context of this pa...

Teachers have a profound effect on students, both in terms of learning and social and emotional development. Research on teacher education has shown the importance of teachers on students' lives. This has never been truer than with language minoritized, multilingual students (ML) in schools today. A...

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« Ce n'est pas pour nous » : rejection sequences in a children's book fairThis paper is based on 41 video-recorded interactions involving two French publishers and a number of illustrators during a children's book fair in Italy. The aim of the meetings is for the illustrators to propose their unpu...

The UK, and perhaps particularly England, is often seen as a nation subscribing wholeheartedly to a monolingual mindset. The national curriculum remains resolutely monolingual, despite linguistic diversity in primary classrooms having increased rapidly. Current research and anecdotal evidence s...

This talk will take the tension between 'transactional' language use, in the sense of language in the service of information exchange, and 'transactional reading,' as conceptualized in Louise Rosenblatt's reader response theory, as a point of departure for theorizing the importance of aesthetic dime...

Public media reports attracted notice to racism and discrimination in the police force, especially in recent years. Headlines such as „Hinweise aus den eigenen Reihen: Polizisten melden Rassismusverdacht" (27.07.2021) or „Bund und Ländern liegen laut ‚Spiegel' etwa 400 Fälle von möglic...

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...

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This paper draws on my ongoing ethnographic work conducted since 2019 in London (U.K.) that documents homeless individuals' interconnected networks and engagement in street businesses and livelihood strategies. In my fieldwork, my participants shared their fatigue about being constantly approached b...

The Ibero-American Association of Applied Linguists (AIALA, by its abbreviations in both Spanish and Portuguese), a regional organization of AILA launched in 2020, exists to support and amplify Spanish, Portuguese, and affiliated minoritized and indigenous languages, both in supporting applied lingu...

Previous research on deaf late learners suggests that these individuals' language learning takes a different path that seems more similar to that of child L1 learners regarding syntactic development (e.g., Cheng & Mayberry, 2019). However, we do not know about these learners' syntactic productio...

English as a medium of instruction has been dıscussed by many e.g. Macaro (2018). Benefits claimed for EMİ include that it assists global communication, fosters social cohesion and tolerance in a world where everyone can understand each other, promotes international mobility, provides access to em...

Children in elementary (full or partial) immersion programs learn to read in the target language. This situation creates challenges for the selection of appropriate books when, as in the case of German, reading instruction pedagogy in Germany still relies heavily on the reading primer (Fibel), where...

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France's colonial linguistic assimilation policy which imposed a French-only medium of instruction has been cited as a barrier to optimal education in French and in other subjects. Consequently, linguists and educators have advocated for education policy that place African languages, and French at...

This presentation aims at describing an online language learning context in which teletandem sessions (Telles, 2009) have been integrated into the syllabus of a Letters Course at the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Brazil. In the second semester of 2021, the subject "Aprendizaje de Portug...

This talk will start with a brief review of strategy instruction (SI) studies and their limitations, especially large-scale quantitative studies using an experimental-control design which tend to yield a macro-level picture of SI. Then, we will describe a study demonstrating how qualitative methods ...

In this paper, I revisit a cultural studies understanding of difference mediated through genre and intertextuality to advance an approach to stancetaking that foregrounds embodied alignments and disalignments in the encountering of Others. I define difference as the embodied performance of relationa...

In this study I discuss how 15 world language teachers and teacher candidates negotiated the concept of translanguaging in an online Educational Linguistics class. Using Seltzer's (2022) critical translingual stance with Ruiz's (1984) language orientations and Peña-Pincheira and De Costa's (2020) e...

Translanguaging, transmodalities and transpositioning are inextricably intertwined concepts that offer innovative analytic perspectives and insights for understanding communications in this era of increased globalization and communication across diversity. Transmodalities, a theory of soci...

Adapted from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the Integrated Model of Technology Acceptance (IMTA) has been used to examine the perceptions and acceptance of computer-assisted language learning (CALL), such as online learning, mobile learning, and learning management systems. In...

A new direction is emerging in medicine, which calls for considering old age as a disease that can be cured (Sender 2016), and not as a fate that must be accepted. This new discourse is in vogue in specialized research spheres but also in enthusiastic and activist circles such as transhumanist group...

This paper reports on how SDG-inspired lesson plans were co-created by participants on ViVEXELT (Vietnam Virtual EXchange for English Language Teaching), an action-research project funded by the British Council in Vietnam (digital learning innovation fund pilot 2021-2022) that aimed to establish a s...

As a result of the standards for recognizing researchers' publications, English has become the lingua franca for academic dissemination and minority languages have been neglected in the scientific community. One of these languages is Basque, a language spoken in the Basque Country. In the last decad...

With the aim of qualifying teacher students of all study subjects to deal competently with the linguistic diversity in their future classrooms, language education-relevant topics need to be addressed in teacher training seminars from a linguistic and language didactic perspective. In order to empiri...

Australia is a multilingual nation, yet a monolingual bias persists as evidenced in 'English only' attitudes, both in society and educational contexts (Eisenchlas & Shoecraft, 2022). This monolingual mindset means there are limited opportunities for children to incorporate their full linguistic ...