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...

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...

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...

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...