LLCE2020 Accepted abstracts

Observation in English Language Pedagogy Research

Jakub Hriňák, University of Trnava, Slovakia;      Abstract: The study is focused on observation as a research method since this natural method can be used to acquire valid and reliable information necessary to answer research questions or hypothesis. Observation will be...

Optimizing language teacher education: Teacher educators’ and candidates’ identity construction through reflection-based teaching

Prof. Anna Krulatz & Dr. Georgios Neokleous, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;     Abstract: Language teacher identity development is a complex and multidimensional process affected by both internal and external factors (Farrell, 2017)....

Participation of Mapuche organizations in intercultural bilingual education: limitations and possibilities in Chile

Rukmini Becerra Lubies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile;      Abstract: For some years now, Chilean public policies on intercultural bilingual education in childhood have been emphasizing the importance of indigenous communities in preschools with an intercultural...

Postoje a názory budúcich učiteľov slovenského jazyka a cudzích jazykov na využívanie moderných komunikačných technológií v pregraduálnej príprave

Veronika Michvocíková, Univeryita sv. Cyrila a Metoda, Slovensko;      Abstrakt: Predkladaný príspevok pozostáva z teoretickej a empirickej časti. Cieľom je zisťovanie, a následná analýza postojov a názorov vysokoškolských študentov – budúcich učiteľov...

Preparing future teachers to implement CBI: Attitudes, beliefs, and practices

Prof. Anna Krulatz, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway;    Abstract: Content-based instruction (CBI), an approach to language teaching in which students are taught language through academic content, has been implemented in a growing number of contexts...

President Buhari’s Anti-Corruption War in Nigeria: a Multimodal Discourse Interpretations of Selected Cartoons

dr. Ayodeji Olowu, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Nigeria;      Abstract: This study identified and analysed the visual and linguistic components associated with the selected cartoons satirising the war against corruption embarked upon by Nigerian President, Mohammadu Buhari. This...

Realist Playfulness in relation to heritage: imaginary vs. Documentary (When we’ll stop playing, then we’ll disappear)

Andreea Grecu Ciupala, University of Civil Engineering in Bucharest, Romania;     Abstract: Playfulness / key to youth without depreciation and to a life without boredom, why wouldn’t we imagine ways by which we can enliven museum experiences while keeping the scientific...

Retronyms: The Karuk Language --Telling the Story of Linguistic Colonialism and Contact

Irene Yi, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A;     Abstract: This paper aims to investigate and explain the linguistic innovation of retronyms in Karuk, an indigenous Native American language spoken along the Klamath River in northern California. Retronyms appeared in...

Satisfaction rates with supporting activities for teachers living outside of Slovak Republic

A.Douskova, S.Karikova, D.Smalley, M.Valent, Matej Bel University, Slovakia;       Abstract: As part of a long term co-operation between the University of Matej Bel in Banska Bystrica, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the...

Social identity in Canadian French as a second language programs

Hilary Walton, University of Toronto, Canada;    Abstract: This study examines whether second language educational programs influence students’ psychological and cognitive attachment to their same-program peers (i.e., social identity). Social identity has shown to have important...