Start & End
The conference starts in the morning of Thursday 30th June and finishes at 4.45 pm on Friday 1st July. Please find here details about the presentations and venues.
Confirmed Plenary Speakers
Professor Angela Creese, University of Birmingham: Language teaching and learning exchange in the superdiverse city: a social gift for getting along?
Professor Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge: Spoken language in the classroom: the medium and the message
Professor Judit Kormos, Lancaster University: Removing obstacles: Inclusion of students with learning difficulties in teaching additional languages
Programme Booklet and Overview
Please find here the full programme. The programme at a glance can be found at the bottom of this page. You can download the BAAL SIG LLT Programme Booklet (incl. abstracts, maps, list of delegates) here. Please note, that we will hand out the full programme as a paper copy, but the booklet will not be provided in print.
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Thursday 30th June |
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| 8.30 | 9.15 | Registration (FASS Building, Foyer Meeting Room 1 & 2) |
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| 9.15 | 9.25 | Conference opening (Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theater) | |||
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Parallel paper presentation sessions |
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| 9.30 | 10.00 | Digital repertoires, invisible boundaries, and the right to speak
Darvin, Ron |
Exploring the impact of communication styles in a peer support scheme
Kan, Qian & Culpeper, Jonathan |
Shadow education in Singapore: Bridging public demands and private needs
Teo, Peter & Koh, Dorothy |
Investigating crosslinguistic influences in formulaic language: Evidence from an agglutinative language
Öksüz, Doğuş Can |
| 10.00 | 10.30 | Developing language repertoires through a blended ethnographically-informed approach
Tusting, Karin |
Preparing learners for a study abroad stay: Use of virtual role plays to enhance spoken requests
Halenko, Nicola |
Bringing learning into the classroom: out-of-class digital language learning practices of student teachers and their in-class pedagogical potential
de Groot, Freek Olaf |
Relationship between attentional processing of input and working memory: an eye-tracking study
Indrarathne, Bimali & Kormos, Judit |
| 10.30 | 11.00 |
Coffee break |
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| 11.00 | 11.30 | Multiliteracies in Practice: Participation in a multilingual digital storytelling community
Anderson, Jim & Macleroy, Vicky |
Complaint realization in L1 and L2 by Japanese learners of English
Fukazawa, Seiji, Kawate-Mierzeywska, Megumi & Kida, Shusaku |
What factors stimulate consistencies and tensions between teachers’ beliefs and practices
Tleuov, Askat |
The spacing effect: the impacts of “massed” and “spaced” task repetition on L2 speech production
Ahmadian, Mohammad Javad |
| 11.30 | 12.00 | Digital literacy practices in everyday life and in basic literacy education – Adult L2 learners’ use of digital media in multilingual contexts
Norlund Shaswar, Annika |
Talking Politics: learning to use disciplinary oral language as a side-effect of Content-and-Language-Integrated learning
Huettner, Julia & Smit, Ute |
Foreign language learning in the age of the Internet: A comparison of informal acquirers and traditional classroom learners in Central Brazil
Cole, Jason |
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| 12.00 | 13.00 | Plenary Neil Mercer: Spoken language in the classroom: the medium and the message Bowland North Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theater |
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| 13.00 | 14.30 |
Lunch break and poster session FASS building – Meeting Room 1 and 2 (ground floor A) |
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| 14.30 | 15.00 | Early Language Learning: long term motivational trajectories and end-of-school attainment
Courtney, Louise |
The affordances of multilingual contexts for the development of plurilingual and pluricultural identities
Enever, Janet |
A meta-analytic study of the relationship between anxiety and L2 Test performance
Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny & Hung, Shao-Ting Alan |
The “Fake it ‘til you make it” approach to fluency development
Hunter, Ann-Marie |
| 15.00 | 15.30 | Self-constructs in language learning
Iwaniec, Janina |
Contrasting students’ languaging with European policy for languages – changed conditions and challenges
Vigmo, Sylvi |
Using assessment for learning to cross ELT boundaries in secondary school education
Ferreira, Cornée |
Time, task and cognition effects on development of L2 fluency for instructed learners
Wright, Clare |
| 15.30 | 16.00 | Exploring the nature of learner motivation in test preparation courses
Lamb, Martin |
Learning a “foreign” language as a “native”
Delaney, Jo-Ann |
Aligning peer assessment with academic English writing in higher education: Collaborative learning inside and outside the classroom
Fong, Natalie & Yung, Kevin |
Promoting oral language fluency in classroom: Bringing research perspectives and teaching practices
Tavakoli, Parvaneh |
| 16.00 | 16.30 | Coffee break | |||
| 16.30 | 17.00 | “Because it is all about how good you are in English”: Investigating the meaning of literacy multilingual female undergraduates in pharmaceutical seminars at a Saudi Arabian University
Alghamdi, Noura |
English writing skills learning and using inside and outside Palestinian public schools
Abadi, Ahmad |
L2 students’ development of academic vocabulary: the possible impact of two learning environments
Olsson, Eva |
Measuring fluency in monologue and dialogue: a comparison of different oral testing formats
Witton-Davies, Giles |
| 17.00 | 17.30 | Metadiscourse in the classroom: a comparative analysis of native and non-native EFL teachers
Wu, Xinxin |
Changing teaching practices in the English classroom
Bunting, Leona |
Fusing L2 learning inside and outside the classroom: Enhancing Willingness to Communicate through multimodal videoconferencing
Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny & Hung, Shao-Ting Alan |
Predictors of L2 writers’ pause bursting: Modeling fluent writing performance
Abdel Latif, Muhammad M. M |
| 17.30 | 18.00 | Teacher questioning and verbal feedback and their implications on student participation
Tharawoot, Yaowaret |
Supporting language learning in outside-school collaborative projects
Vandommele, Goedele |
Analysis of adult learner code-switched self-repetition in L2 classroom talk
Yang, Ruowei |
The effects of proficiency on second language writing behaviours and text quality
Révész, Andrea, Michel, Marije & Mazgutova, Diana |
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Conference dinner |
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Poster presentations:
- How to bridge the boundaries between institutionalized and Natural Writing education? – Claessens, Marleen
- The London Centre for Languages and Cultures: A joined-up approach to language-learning – Hassan, Xavière & Garraghan, Matt
- Multilingual Literacy learning of Nepalese children growing up in the UK – Knee, Sarah
- Bridging policy and practice: A study of teacher talk among EFL teachers in China – Teo, Peter
- “This idea needs expressing” – Linguistic variations in EAP feedback – Haldane, Jill
- Effects of written & audio input & explicit Instruction on acquisition of Rendaku by L2 Learners – Hoong, Shao Ting
- Acquisition of implicit knowledge of L2 grammar: Input modalities and working memory – Alsalmi, Sami
- Ethnographic Insights: Role of sojourners’ ‘cultures’ and gender on accessing speaking opportunities – Stakounis, Helena
- The effects of task complexity manipulated by reasoning demands on L2 learners’ oral performance: interaction with language proficiency and working memory- Awwad, Anas
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| 8.30 | 9.00 | Registration (FASS Building Foyer Meeting Room 1 & 2) | |||
| 9.00 | 10.00 | Plenary Judit Kormos: Removing obstacles: Inclusion of students with learning difficulties in teaching additional languages Bowland North Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theater |
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Bowland North
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| 10.00 | 10.30 | Pre- and in-service teacher education: Crossing boundaries in a virtual professional community
Bortoluzzi, Maria & Marenzi, Ivana |
Why L1 is not welcome in the English language classroom
Egri Ku-Mesu, Katalin |
Using the internet in and out of class: Benefits for foreign language learning
Mifka-Profozic, Nadia & Philp, Jenefer |
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| 10.30 | 11.00 | An Inquiry into the implementation of training sessions to enhance EFL pre-service teachers’ use of classroom interaction strategies
Al-Amri, Majid |
Exploring the utility of video-dubbing in promoting L2 Learning
Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny & Hung, Shao-Ting Alan |
Language acquisition in the digital age: The importance of researching informal online learning practices
Arndt, Henriette |
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| 11.00 | 11.30 |
Coffee break |
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| 11.30 | 12.00 | Motivation and technology-based out-of-class language learning: Mediating effect of technology acceptance indicators
Fathali, Somayeh & Okada, Takeshi |
Informal language learning and the development of L2 identity during residence abroad
Mitchell, Rosamond |
Language and learning in Kurdistan and Lebanon: using refugees’ and IDP’s home languages in school
Capstick, Anthony |
Language learners as language users: implications for teaching language skills and digital competences
Miglbauer, Marlene |
| 12.00 | 12.30 | Context effects in long term grammatical attainment: interactions with age of onset and short term memory
Bolibaugh, Cylcia & Foster, Pauline |
Crossing boundaries through Erasmus Programme: A case study of prospective students
Duran Karaoz, Zeynep |
Effective use of home languages and translanguaging in learning spellings by ESL Learners
Jayasinghe, Ramani |
L2 Learners on mobile devices: an exploration of the negotiation of meaning beyond the classroom
Lee, Helen |
| 12.30 | 13.00 | Tracking the early stages of L2 comprehension in children and adults instructed via a computer game
Pili-Moss, Diana |
Out-of-class language contact and vocabulary gain in a study abroad context
Briggs, Jessica |
Bringing home and school together, boosting second language acquisition?
Frijns, Carolien & Jaspaert, Koen |
Blended learning and memory-training techniques for vocabulary learning in adult EFL learners with dyslexia
Cappelli, Gloria & Noccetti, Sabrina |
| 13.00 | 14.30 |
Lunch break and BAAL SIG committee meeting |
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| 14.30 | 15.00 | What teachers say about listening and its pedagogy: A comparison between two countries
Graham, Suzanne |
An evaluation of the implementation of the English Language Nigeria Certificate in Education Curriculum
Tom-Lawyer, Oris |
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| 15.00 | 15.30 |
Coffee break |
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| 15.30 | 16.30 | Plenary Angela Creese: Language teaching and learning exchange in the superdiverse city: a social gift for getting along? Bowland North Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theater |
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| 16.30 | 16.45 | Conference closing (Bowland North, Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theater) |
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Programme at a glance
| Day | Thursday, 30 June | Friday, 1 July |
| Time | Topic | Topic |
| 9.00-9.30 | Registration (8.30 start) & Opening (9.15 start) | Plenary: Judit Kormos
Bowland North Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theater |
| 9.30-10.00 | Bowland North SR 2, 4, 7, 23
Paper presentations |
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| 10.00-10.30 | Paper presentations | Bowland North SR 2, 4, 7, 23
Paper presentations |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee/tea break | Paper presentations |
| 11.00-11.30 | Paper presentations | Coffee/tea break |
| 11.30-12.00 | Paper presentations | Paper presentations |
| 12.00-12.30 | Plenary: Neil Mercer
Bowland North Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theater |
Paper presentations |
| 12.30-13.00 | Paper presentations | |
| 13.00-13.30 | Lunch break & poster presentationsFASS Building – Meeting Room 1&2 |
Lunch break FASS Building – Meeting Room 1&2 |
| 13.30-14.00 | ||
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| 14.30-15.00 | Bowland North SR 2, 4, 7, 23
Paper presentations |
Bowland North SR 2, 4, 7, 23
Paper presentations |
| 15.00-15.30 | Paper presentations | Coffee/tea break |
| 15.30-16.00 | Paper presentations | Plenary: Angela Creese
Bowland North Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theater |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee/tea break | |
| 16.30-17.00 | Paper presentations | Conference closing – finish ca. 16.45 |
| 17.00-17.30 | Paper presentations | |
| 17.30-18.00 | Paper presentations | |
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner in her Majesty’s Castle of Lancaster |