BAAL ProgrammeFinal

42nd Annual BAAL Meeting University of Aberdeen

9-11 September 2010

Thursday 9 September

From 0930 Registration & Coffee ELPHINSTONE HALL

1100-1115 Opening

1115-1215 Plenary Session 1, Arts Lecture Theatre Alastair Pennycook, 'Language, context and the locality of the local'

Room Arts Lecture Theatre

Regent Lecture Theatre

King’s College KCG5

New Kings NK 1 New Kings NK6 New Kings NK10 Linklater Room 1 King’s College KCG7


Taylor C11

1220-1250 A Case Study in Using Literary Texts to Promote EFL Learners' Communicative Competence Suhair Al Alami

Exploring Teachers' Beliefs about the Language and Literacy Needs of EAL Learners across International Contexts Yvonne Foley, Candace Harper

SIG GENDER & LANGUAGE Creating gender distinctions: Migrant teens’ acquisition of sociolinguistic variation Erik Schleef, Miriam Meyerhoff

Identifying Lingual-Cultural Types for Global Communication Evgenia Gulyaeva

Do New Technologies Facilitate the Acquisition of Reading Skills? A Systematic Review of the Research Evidence Zöe Handley, Catherine Walter

Raising Learners’ Intercultural Awareness – Theory and Practice Susanne Niemeier

The assessment of EFL knowledge and use of multi-word verbs in Korea Hyo-jin Jeon

General or national tolerance for variation? Attitudes to dialect and foreign accent in the media Lars Anders Kulbrandstad

Making Sense of Words: The English Profile Wordlists Project Annette Capel

1255-1325 Language learning and teaching SIG track: The negotiation of Thai EFL teachers' social and professional identities and their classroom practice Juthamas Thongsongsee

The Price of Institutional Stability: In-service Education and Training (INSET) for Japanese Secondary School Teachers of English Walter Davies

A New Girl Order: ‘Girling' women in a global postfeminist discourse Michelle Lazar

Localising Jamie's Italy: Representation of Italy in the Slovene translations of Oliver's cookbooks Ana Tominc ( Student Scholarship)

The Use of Reading Strategies by Chinese English Language Learners at the University Level Alex Poole

Reflecting on Reflection: discourse and perceptions of Assessed Reflective Writing Paul Wickens, Jane Spiro

A corpus-based study of the linguistic features and processes which influence the way collocations are formed: Some implications for the language classroom Crayton Walker

Arabic-speaking communities in multilingual Sheffield: between the local and the global Gibson Ferguson

Are Complex Tenses Really Real? Martin Edwardes

1325-1425 Lunch ELPHINSTONE HALL






Taylor C11

1430-1500

SIG TESTING, EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT Assessment for Learning in English Language Teaching: "Missed" Conceptions and Common Problems in Four Educational Systems Chris Davison

Discoursal construction of beginning teacher identity through supervisor feedback Jill Brown, Jenny Miller

Global archetypes or local practices?: An ESRC research study of the language of women business leaders in the UK Judith Baxter

Identity, investment and motivation for transnational immigrants to Australia Lynda Yates

SIG CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Using a key items analysis to explore the Characteristic Discourse Features of classroom discussions in asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication Li-Chin Chen

EFL students' difficulties in incorporating outside source materials into their compositions Taeko Kamimura

Different registers and formulaic sequences: Oral presentation and essay for EFL learners Akemi Nagasaka

Examining effects of L2 extensive reading in the cognitive and affective domains Junko Yamashita, Kyona Kan

1505-1535

Effects of pre-task planning on paired oral test performance: A case of beginning EFL learners Fumiyo Nakatsuhara, Ryo Nitta

And in your context? A case-study of Taiwanese teachers’ perceptions of the sociopolitics of ELT Graham Hall

O Canada! The Generic Masculine as a Non-Issue? Laura Paterson

Living locally with global uncertainties: The discourse dynamics of social grouping and empathy Lynne Cameron, Robert Maslen

It’s not what you say, it’s the way you say it: An investigation into the sound of multiword units Phoebe M.S. Lin

Effectiveness of a long-term extensive reading program: a case study Hitoshi Nishizawa, Takayoshi Yoshioka

Learning collocations through corpus consultation: What lies beneath? Kuei-Ju Tsai

Poetics, Polemics and Praxis in Intercultural Language Pedagogy Maria Dasli

1540-1610

C4 The native-non-native dichotomy in minority language settings Discussant: Alastair Pennycook Is the native speaker dead? Alan Davies Native and non-native speakers of Galician in the 21st century Bernadette O’Rourke, Fernando Ramallo In Search of an Identity? Non-native speakers of Basque in Navarre Helen Brownlee

A validation study of the CEFR levels of phrasal verbs in the English Profile Wordlists Masashi Negishi, Yukio Tono, Yoshohito Fujita

Going, going, gone? Reactivating Lapsed Languages in the Context of an Initial Teacher Training Programme Jill Llewellyn-Williams

Will Ms ever be as frequent as Mr? A corpus-based comparison of gendered terms across four diachronic corpora of British English Paul Baker

Discrete and Complete Inputs on Phrasal Verbs Learning Chun-Ching Hsieh, Hsiao-Fang Hsu

Vague quantifiers and colloquialization in 20th-century written English Nick Smith, Amy Wang

C5 Language and Culture: Building language teaching capacity in New Zealand Focussing on the context: Language(s) policy and professional development in New Zealand Sharon Harvey Developing teacher capacity: Learning a language while teaching a language Heather Richards, Clare Conway Building capability: In- service teachers learning how to teach an additional language Clare Conway, Heather Richards

The similar changing style: A case of Chinese compliments Hui-Chen (Jane) Hsu

Navigating a ‘local' conversational trajectory in a ‘globally' framed institutional event: The pre-allocation of student topic nomination in L2 conversation-for-learning Marion Nao

1610- 1630

Tea/Coffee ELPHINSTONE HALL

1630- 1700

Interactional Competence across proficiency levels: How do learners manage conversations? Evelina Galaczi

A Corpus-Based Study on Causal Conjunctions in Taiwan EFL Writing Chihyi Wu, Hintat Cheung

Introducing the CEFR in pre-service language teacher education programs: Strategies, challenges and new conceptualizations Farahnaz Faez

Linguistic Politeness Education in the Ryūkyūs - An Intercultural Pragmatic Investigation Daniel Z. Kadar

Immersion programmes: their impact on Developing language teacher capability Annelies Roskvist

The Effect of Context and Topic Familiarity on L2 Lexical Inferencing and Recall Shiva Kaivanpanah, Rasool Kaivanpanah, Niloofar Rahimi

Prestige and Pseudo - Hypercorrection : Code-switching and dialect variants in the Orkney Islands Tom Rendall

The occurrence and usefulness of incidental focus on form in adult ESL classrooms Hossein Nassaji

1705- 1735

Native and non-native signers: Generating a BSL Corpus Graham Turner, Kyra Pollitt, Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon Whose Language is it? Native and non-native speakers in an Irish language classroom Bernadette O’Rourke, Aisling Ní Bheacháin

Do bilingual Japanese university students have an innate interpreting skill? - In a case of Japanese returnee students studying in Japan Kinuko Takahashi, Tomohiko Ooigawa

Face Negotiation in Subtitling (Chinese-English): Politeness Moves and Audience Response Xiaohui Yuan

Investigating the performance measures of fluency, accuracy, and complexity on a narrative task Chihiro Inoue ( Student Scholarship)

Techno-nationalism in Japan: A way of strategic compliance with globalization Kojiro Murakawa

English on the internet and a ‘post-varieties' approach to language Philip Seargeant, Caroline Tagg, Wipapan Ngampramuan

A local response to the global reality of increased migration: Teacher education Susan Gray

Validation of Yes/No vocabulary tests: merits and demerits of using non-words Tadamitsu Kamimoto

Attitudes of tourists to the perceived lack of English proficiency at international travel destinations, and how they reflect relative power and cultural capital Cheryl Traiger

The Effect of Modified Speech on Listening to Authentic Speech Mohammad Reza Khodabakhsh






Taylor C11

1810

Drink reception & BAAL BOOK PRIZE

ABERDEEN ART GALLERY

1930

Dinner, Zeste, Crombie Hall

Friday 10 September






Taylor C11

0900- 0930

SIG PSYCHOLING-UISTICS Word association in bilinguals: Response types, response times and interlingual mediation Tess Fitzpatrick, Cris Izura

Power Relations between the Researcher and the Researched: An Analysis of Native and Non-native Ethnographic Interviews Shu-Hsin Chen

SIG UK LINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHY FORUM Language and Place: Birmingham and the Black Country Urszula Clark, Esther Asprey, Brian Dalkin

SIG LANGUAGE LEARNING & TEACHING The effects of teacher codeswitching on vocabulary acquisition in French as a foreign language Mairin Hennebry, Vivienne Rogers

Assessing Efficiency and Fairness in Language Policy and Planning Michele Gazzola

SIG LANGUAGE IN AFRICA A tale of two languages in the assessment of school subject knowledge Pauline Rea-Dickins, Guoxing Yu, Oksana Afitska, Zuleikha Kharmis

Language Learning: Collaboration in English for Specific Purposes Problem-Based learning Classroom Elizabeth Anthony

Teaching low literacy EAL learners in mainstream science: vocabulary and language focused pedagogy Jennifer Miller, Jill Brown

Discourse markers in two types of high-stakes L2-L2 academic interaction Nicole Baumgarten

0935- 1005

L1-L2 Convergence: Shifts in the L1 under the influence of an L2 Amanda Brown, Marianne Gullberg

Building the Bridge between Test Preparation and EFL Motivation - Reports of updates from Impact Study of a New English Test with Innovative Features Zekun Fang

Discourse and Struggle: Language endangerment, language policy and Taiwanese nationalism Ya-ling Chang

The perspectives of practioners on the teaching of European citizenship through Modern Foreign Languages Mairin Hennebry

Naturalising the social: socialising the natural Alison Sealey

Lexical levels, collocations and phrases: an exploration of (mis)matches between first-year students’ lexical profiles and their study material Ruth Scheepers

The Role of Collaborative Learning in Improving EFL Students' Reading Comprehension Esmaeil Momtaz, Mark Garner

The Role of L2 Print Exposure in L2 Vocabulary, Reading, and Working Memory Development Diana Pulido, Zach Hambrick

The relationship between L2 proficiency and the use of epistemic stance in speaking and writing: A cross-sectional corpus-based study on Japanese EFL learners Kenneth Fordyce

Listening Comprehension Influenced by the Cultural Knowledge of the Learners?A Case Study of Iranian EFL pre-intermediate Morteza Bakhtiarvand

1010- 1040

Are bilinguals slower and less accurate to name pictures in their dominant language as compared to monolinguals Yu-Lin Cheng

English Language Ideologies and Cultural Governance: What do Chinese Foreign Language Education Policies tell? Lin Pan

‘Are you religious or are you saved?’: A case study in metaphor-led discourse analysis as a core to discourse-centred online ethnography Stephen Pihlaja

Languages in the English primary school: Rationales and learning outcomes Rosamond Mitchell, Bernadette Holmes, Carrie Cable, Patricia Driscoll

Transnationalism and Language Learning: Rethinking SLA as Second Language Capital Acquisition Hyunjung Shin (International Scholarship)

The sociolinguistics of terminology development: the acceptability of loans and neologisms in African languages Mark Gibson

Exploring repetition of task as a co-accomplished social interaction Ian Nakamura

Incidental EFL Vocabulary Learning through Reading - The Involvement Load Hypothesis revisited Bianca Maria Sauer

Localisation of English: Discourse markers oh and I think in a non-native variety of English Lan-fen Huang

Differential effects of pre-task conditions and dyadic dictogloss-task interactins on the learning of English Present Perfect Tense. Fujiko Sano

1045- 1105

TEA/COFFEE: ELPHINSTONE HALL






Taylor C11

1105- 1135

Seeking psycholinguistic evidence in learners’ pragmatic awareness. A case of multi-word discourse markers Anne Li-E Liu ( Student Scholarship)

Learner autonomy, agency and identity: an interview based investigation of Syrian EFL university students' stories of learning English Kinaz Murshid

“We can smile more and more … or we can save energy and save our economy” Local and global discourses in pro-environmental social marketing campaigns Susan Hogben

‘Confident and Comfortable’: Identity and Success in ESOL Learners Naeema Begum Hann

Generic you and the specific vs. the general in social research interviews Greg Myers, Sofia Lampropoulou

Twitter a new global genre: a contrastive study of the use of language in English and Spanish Irina Arquelles Alvarez, Afonso Muñoz Muñoz,

Rupert Herington

Computer-mediated adolescent health communication: Local and global audiences Catherine Smith, Svenja Adolphs, Kevin Harvey, Louise Mullany

On the Association Between Phonological Processing Skills and English Vocabulary Learning Among Young Learners of a First-Learned Non-Alphabetic Language Yu-cheng Sieh

Understanding non-lexical/lexical pauses in L2 learners' oral language Eiko Nakamura

Turn Taking in Learner Talk Sanja Čurkovi ć Kalebić

1140- 1210

Priming effects and brain blood activation patterns as alternative indices of linguistic automatization Toru Kinoshita, Harumi Oishi

Japanese L2 English users' diaries: self-identity, power, and culture Yoko Nogami

Long-term effects of repeating a timed writing task on beginning EFL learners' development: A dynamic systems approach Ryo Nitta, Kyoko Baba

Global English in the European classroom? The problems and prospects of English language pedagogy in localized educational settings Christine Sing

"It's OK As Long As It's Campur (Mixed)" - Mixing it up in Southeast Asia Breda O'Hara-Davies

Community radio broadcasting in an extreme multilingual setting Simplice Simeu

"China's Peaceful Rise", Competing Discourses in Newspaper Articles from China Daily and The Times Guanjie Wang

Effects of Input Processes on Generations of False Memory in L2 Word Learning Chikako Nakagawa

Functions of English general extenders spoken by Japanese learners of English in a learner corpus Tomoko Watanabe ( Student Scholarship)

Turn-taking, topic and repair: a new framework for the analysis of classroom discourse Julie Radford, Peter Blatchford, Rob Webster

1210- 1330

LUNCH : ELPHINSTONE HALL

POSTER SESSIONS / SIG BUSINESS MEETINGS 1245- 1330

POSTER SESSIONS, Linklater Room 2

1245- 1330

SIG Meeting Vocabulary Studies

SIG Meeting Language In Africa

SIG Meeting Testing, Evaluation and Assessment

SIG Meeting Multimodality

SIG Meeting Psycholinguistics

SIG Meeting Corpus Linguistics

SIG Meeting Gender and language

SIG Meeting Linguistic Ethnography Forum

SIG Meeting Intercultrual Communication

Applied Linguistics Editorial Board Meeting

1330-1430

Plenary Session 2, Arts Lecture Theatre Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: ‘Crimes against humanity in education and applied linguistics - corporate globalization or geopolitical knowledge glocalisation?’





1435- 1505

Participation, deliberate learning and discourses of learning online David Barton

A matter of status? Attitudes towards non-native speaker accents of English Bettina Beinhoff

Using Test-taking Strategies in TOEFL iBT Reading Comprehension Item Types Mohammad Alavi, Soodeh Bordbar1

“"Lucille's sort of a language policeman": Enforcing local language norms in an English medium primary class in Finland. Alicia Copp Jinkerson

Toward a concept of "engagement" in learning in the foreign language classroom Lynn Erler

Using Sketch Engine to examine the presentation of Islam and Muslims in the UK press Costas Gabrielatos, Paul Baker, Tony McEnery

1510- 1540

Modifiers in university lectures: A cross-cultural study of BASE and MICASE Chia-Yen Lin

Early language learning - English skills of 8 year-old children in Iceland Samúel Lefever

"Localising" the CEFR and ELP: The need to incorporate socio-pragmatic features in Japanese university EFL classes Yoko Sato

Native and non-native speaker use of abstract nouns Hilary Nesi

Using multi-modal pedagogic corpora to explore language varieties: the Backbone Project Fiona Farr, Elaine Riordan

Sign Language Corpora: A Review of the Field Elaine Farrow

1545- 1615

C2 Applied Linguistics in Intercultural Communication: Current Perspectives and Approaches Conceptualising intercultural competence – the need for an applied linguistic approach Helen Spencer-

Oatey Developing and assessing intercultural competence – can dynamic assessment be a way forward? Claudia Harsch ‘To me it doesn’t matter where [they] come from’. National culture discourses in the multinational workplace Jo Angouri Stereotypes as cultural capital: International students negotiating identities in British HE. Trevor Grimshaw

A Study of Revolution of EFL/ESL Class via the Use of YouTube Video Clips LI-LI Kuo, Pei-Chin Hsieh, Yu-Shia Lin

Early foreign language learning through early years' curriculum (3-5 years old) Carmen Lucas, Fátima Albuquerque, Richard Pemberton

Japanese Students' Self-Assessment in Can-do List Questionnaire and Writing Chiharu Nakanishi

Multimodal legitimation in Obama’s presidential campaign advertisements. Rowan Mackay ( Student Scholarship)

Exploring the potential of investment in SLL: a case study of adult female migrants learning English Alma Rodriguez-Tsuda ( Stu- dent Scholarship)

Exploring Time and Space in Narrative Identity: From Local to Global Patrick Kiernan

1615- 1635

TEA / COFFEE: ELPHINSTONE HALL

1635- 1705

C2 Applying mixed methods in understanding professional intercultural communication: the case of deontic modality in business meetings Michael Handford A critical discourse approach to intercultural communication. Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University

The Influence of Choice on Lexical Complexity in TBLT John Thurman

Students' and teachers' notions of effective (Business) English teaching: global and local influences Ruth Trinder, Martin Herles

Implicit and explicit approaches to vocabulary learning: Acquisition of declarative knowledge and automaticity of lexical access Ana Pellicer-Sánchez (Student Scholarship)

Learning a language through a content and language integrated learning approach: lessons from one Australian school. Margaret Gearon

Reading news on the web as social practice: Connecting global and local in Japanese as L2 classroom Noriko Iwasaki, Yuri Kumagai

Space, place and SMS: capturing context and network in multimodal corpus development. Dawn Knight, Svenja Adolphs






Taylor C11

1710- 1810

Plenary Session 3, Arts Lecture Theatre

Wilson McLeod, 'Gaelic development in Scotland and problems of capacity'

1810- 1930

BAAL AGM: Arts Lecture Theatre POSTER SESSIONS: Linklater Room 2

1930-2015

DRINKS RECEPTION AND BOOK LAUNCH, Linklater Room 1

Sponsored by Multilingual Matters Ltd from 1930

CONFERENCE DINNER (2015)

Saturday 11 September Room Arts Lecture

Theatre Regent Lecture Theatre

King’s College KCG5 New Kings NK 1 New Kings NK6 New Kings NK10 Linklater Room 1 King’s College KCG7

0900- 0930

Metaphor, Gesture, and Music Teaching Ya-Chin Chuang

Confucian values as a new communication framework in the achievement of culture-specific request strategies Jin-Ok Hong

Language learning and Identity construct in study abroad: Case study of Irish learners of French L2 Isabelle Lemee

Connecting the local to the global: the expansion of Theme Heather Meyer

0935- 1005

Interpreting the CEFR: are examination boards telling the same story? Barry O'Sullivan, John de Jong

English-medium journals at the semi-periphery Bojana Petric

The role of chunks in the development of negation in French by instructed English learners Vivienne Rogers

A Genre-based Approach to Law Research Article Abstracts Yi-hui Chiu

Composition and revision in CB written assessment Lucy Chambers

1010- 1040

C1 Vocabulary Studies SIG Colloquium See Book of Abstracts for aims and outcomes of colloquium

C3 British ELT in existential crisis? Discussant: Ahmed Kabel Professionalism, ethics, and anglocentricity Robert Phillipson Crisis, what crisis? The critical value of a bit of local history Richard Smith The global English language proficiency testing industry and counter-hegemonic local alternatives Bessie Dendrinos Building global ELT on a solid local foundation: Repositioning the L1 Shelley Taylor

POST- GRADUATE FORUM PhD Writing Workshop Anne Bumstead McGee

Comic book culture in the Japanese and global contexts: Critical discourse analysis aiming for its application to English language teaching Mayumi Tanaka

HTML5 and the Learner of Spoken Languages Eoin Kilfeather, Dermot Campbell, Yi Wang, Ciaran McDonnell, Marty Meinardi, Bunny Richardson

A glocal patent voice? Interactional dynamics in the engineering patents genre Carmen Sancho Guinda

Academic Values in Context: A Corpus-Based Approach D.S. Giannoni

Learning to write – international students’ literacy practices Weronika Gorska ( Student Scholarship)

1040- 1100

TEA / COFFEE: Elphinstone Hall

11.00- 1130

How can teachers develop EAL pedagogy and intercultural literacies? Vicky Obied

Struggle between learning English for self and nation: imagination of 'global community' of Chinese students as a remedy Emily Tsz Yan Fong

Revisiting English in Bangladesh: Oscillation of the colonized mind in the decolonized world Qumrul Chowdhury

Promotion and information: Evaluation in Journal Descriptions Ken Hyland

1135- 1205

C1

Native-speakerism and change in ELT Adrian Holliday A role for individual reflexivity in a systemic existential crisis Julian Edge

PhD Writing Workshop



King’s College KCG5 New Kings NK 1 New Kings NK6 New Kings NK10 Linklater Room 1

1210- 1310

Plenary Session 4, Arts Lecture Theatre Bonny Norton 'Imagined identities, grassroots literacy, and digital resources'

1310- 1320

Concluding remarks: Arts Lecture Theatre

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