Abstracts Archive

Barko-Alva (2022) and others provide evidence of the need for training that supports pedagogical language knowledge (PLK) among dual language bilingual education (DLBE) teachers. Following prior research, we conducted a qualitative study to examine the level of confidence of four Spanish DLBE teache...

Numerous studies have pointed to a "native English speaker" hiring preference within the worldwide TESOL industry (e.g., Bernstein & Woosnam, 2019). With limited empirical backing and/or theoretical exploration, the rationale for this policy has mainly been attributed to native speakerism (Holli...

Foreign language (FL) aptitude has been defined as a set of cognitive abilities that play a major role in both second and FL learning. (Li, 2022). Apart from MLAT-E(lementary) (Carroll & Sapon, 2002), which has shown good predictive validity in a number of studies conducted in different L1 conte...

This talk will take the tension between 'transactional' language use, in the sense of language in the service of information exchange, and 'transactional reading,' as conceptualized in Louise Rosenblatt's reader response theory, as a point of departure for theorizing the importance of aesthetic dime...

Public media reports attracted notice to racism and discrimination in the police force, especially in recent years. Headlines such as „Hinweise aus den eigenen Reihen: Polizisten melden Rassismusverdacht" (27.07.2021) or „Bund und Ländern liegen laut ‚Spiegel' etwa 400 Fälle von möglic...

Australia is a multilingual nation, yet a monolingual bias persists as evidenced in 'English only' attitudes, both in society and educational contexts (Eisenchlas & Shoecraft, 2022). This monolingual mindset means there are limited opportunities for children to incorporate their full linguistic ...