Abstracts Archive

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...

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...

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...