Abstracts Archive

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...

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...

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...