Abstracts Archive

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...

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...