LLCE2020 Accepted abstracts

CURRICULUM REFORM AND LANGUAGE TEACHING AT SLOVAK PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Lýdia Simanová & Mgr. Marian Trnka, PhD., Matej Bel University, Slovakia;    Abstract: The paper deals with the issue of 2008 curriculum reform impact and subsequent changes in teaching approach of Slovak language and foreign language. Research findings (2018) pointed to the fact that...
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Diversity in heritage language classes: identifying teaching strategies that work

Emmanouela Tisizi, McGill University, Canada;       Abstract: Heritage language (HL) learners are people with familial ties to a minority language who seek to maintain a connection with it through formal instruction. HL learners differ from learners who take up a...
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Does Language Proficiency Really Matter in Peer Interaction? A Case Study of English Learning in Indonesia

Risa Fitria, President University, Indonesia;    Abstract: Collaborative learning is a method that is widely used in foreign language classes. However, this becomes problematic when one party is passive and the other is dominant. Several studies on peer interaction have found that...
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English as a Lingua Franca in Intercultural Communication: Implications for Intercultural English Language Teaching

Hamza R'boul, Public University of Navarre,       Abstract: The cultural dimension of English language teaching has mutated from the communicative approach into an intercultural communicative approach to accentuate the use of language in different cultural contexts and...
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Epistemic and evidential legitimization strategies in English and Spanish medical research article abstracts

Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil & Elena Domínguez-Morales, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;    Abstract: This presentation explores the categories of evidentiality, i.e. the mode of knowing, and epistemic modality, i.e. judgements about certainty, in a corpus of English...
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Establishing a zone of prioritized curricularivity: a critically reflexive praxis for the multimodal discourse in EFL textbooks in Korean universities

Dr Christopher A. Smith, University of Western Ontario, Canada;       Abstract: In Korean university EFL programs, globally published textbooks often serve as the curriculum and primary source for classroom activity, despite evidence of social injustices in their...
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Eye-tracking as a Methodological Approach – Can it Serve Research Purposes in Translation Studies?

Megana Pesse, Kaunas University of Technology;      Abstract: Over the last few decades, there has been a noticeable increase in the use of eye-tracking in translation studies. This paper reviews representative studies, published since 2010, which utilised eye-tracking...
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Feminization of French Profession Nouns in Teaching

Irene Yi, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A;       Abstract: Younger generations are critically affected by language teaching, and these can have great sociolinguistic impacts on the world when said generations grow older. This paper examines the patterns of...
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First Language Transfer in Second Language Usage: Italian Prepositions

Elena Sharafutdinova, California State University, Fresno, the U.S.A;         Abstract: This study focuses on cross-linguistic transfer in the acquisition of Italian prepositions by beginner learners, studying Italian as a foreign language, in a U.S....
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Gendered Subjectivities in single-sex based education in a mixed school

Javier Sierra Gordillo & Jonathan Alexander Delgado Ochoa, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Colombia;         Abstract: In school, there are instituted, installed practices and re-producers of classification and standardization of gender...
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