Abstracts Archive

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...

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...

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...