Symposium 2023 Programme & Links

Welcome to the programme and links page. Click on the underlined titles to read the abstract of all our presenters. The link to the Zoom link will be posted via email to registered participants. In-person and online registration has now been closed. Online participants, please use a zoom name that resembles the one who used during the registration process. 

 

Friday, June 2nd
8:30 – 9:00Joining and registrationRoom: IB110
9:30 – 9:15Welcome and Symposium Opening
9:15 – 10:30

Plenary Speaker: Colette Despagne

“Alternative notions of citizenship: the case of return migrants from the U.S. to Mexico”

Video link to recording

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee and in-person Poster Session I

April Passi, Gabrielle Forget, Paddy Watson, Leonie Hölderle

11:00 – 12:30Modality/LanguagePresenterTitle/AbstractVideo
SESSION 1A (Room: IB110)
11:00 – 11:20In-person
English
Ma Guadalupe Sanchez Sandoval, University of TorontoA proposal for a plurilingual and critical approach to CLIL in Mexican public higher educationVideo link
11:20 – 11:40In-person
English
Michael Koslowski, University of TorontoDeconstructing the Binary: Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Plurilingual and Immersion PedagogiesVideo link
11:40 – 12:00Online
English
Yunjia Xie, McGill UniversityThe Possibility of Localize Plurilingual Approaches in EFL Education at Secondary Schools in Mainland ChinaVideo link
12:00 – 12:20Online
English
Adriana Ortiz, University of TorontoParticipative plurilingual identity construction: a reflexive model for the second language classroomVideo link
SESSION 1B (Room: IB260)
11:00 – 11:20Online
English
Chia-Hsin Yin, Ohio State University
Grace J. Kim, Bucknell University
Multimodality and L2 Socialization in Digital SpaceVideo link
11:20 – 11:40In-person
English
Celeste Kirsh, University of TorontoJournalistic Learning Through Digital Multimodal Composing: Taking an Inquiry Stance with Teacher CandidatesVideo link
11:40 – 12:00Online
English
Dagmara Gałajda, University of Silesia in Katowice, PolandSupporting students’ multiliteracy: redefining communicative competence by building upon Gen Z’s digital body languageVideo link
12:00 – 12:20Online
English

Artemiy Kotov, Kurchatov Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

Anna Zinina, Kurchatov Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow State Linguistic University Moscow, Russia

Perception of the social robot for learning a foreign language by Russian studentsVideo link
SESSION 1C (Room: IB270)
11:00 – 11:20In-person
English
Ji-young Shin, University of Toronto, MississaugaExamining important linguistic features of elicited imitation between proficiency levels: Insights from machine learning and corpus linguisticsVideo not available 
11:20 – 11:40In-person
English

Karam Noel, University of Toronto

Hiba Ibrahim
Geoff Lawrence, York University

The case of Q-methodology: A collaborative, CDST-informed research method in applied linguisticsVideo link
11:40 – 12:20Online
English
Slides in French, Portuguese, Mandarin and Persian
Mengjiao Han, Zahra Heidarian, Chuan Liu, Haobin Liu, Filipe Malafaia Cerqueira, Julie Marion, Amanda Seabrook, Liwen Situ, Lihan Wu, Shelley K. Taylor, University of Western OntarioCritically Reflecting on Identity Texts: Equity-Based Praxes and Teacher EducationVideo link
12:30 – 1:30

Lunch Break and In-person Poster Session II

Lu Xi, Karen Andrews, Li Peng, Stephen Bahry/Zhe Chen

(Room: IB110)

SESSION 2A (Room: IB110)
1:30 – 3:00Modality/languagePresenterTitleVideo
1:30 – 1:50Online
English
Eunjeong Park, Sunchon National UniversityThe Corpus-Aided Instruction for EFL College Students’ Writing ImprovementVideo not available 
1:50 – 2:10Online
English
Hakan Cangır, Ankara University,Erfurt UniversityMajor Sources of Lexical Errors in Second Language Writing in the Turkish ContextVideo link
2:10 – 2:30OnlineZahra Heidarian Western UniversityShort Stories as a Bridge between Theory and Practice: Developing Reading Comprehension Skills among 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade Students in IranVideo link
2:30 – 2:50In-person
English
Renee Davy, McGill UniversityWriting in Secondary Schools: The Treatment of Authentic Writing in Foreign Language CurriculumVideo not available 
SESSION 2B (Room: IB260)
1:30 – 1:50In-person
English

Katherine Rehner, University of Toronto Mississauga

John Ippolito, York University

Daya Alderfer, Claire Costaris, Gabrielle Forget, Sarah Jones, Ivan Lasan, Yifan Liu, University of Toronto

Interconnections and Repertoires: Exploring the Linguistic and Social Integration of Adult Migrants across International ContextsVideo link
1:50 – 2:10In-person
English
Sonia Martin, York UniversityResistance or maintenance? An autoethnographic reflection on the creation of an equitable language policyVideo link
2:10 – 2:30Online
English
Mili Saha, Jagannath University, BangladeshFamily language policies: Bangladeshi immigrant parents’ perceptions of maintaining children’s heritage languageVideo link
2:30 – 2:50In-person
English
Rebecca Schmor, University of TorontoA Plural, Intersectional Approach to Multiethnographic Methodologies: Investigating the Relationship between Plurilingual Identities and PracticesVideo link
SESSION 2C (Room: IB270)
1:30 – 1:50In-person
English

Gabriela Martinez Loyola, Ioana Colgiu, Yasaman Rafat, Western University

Laura Spinu, CUNY Kingsborough Community

Second Language Learners’ Perception of Spanish Voices: A Quantitative Investigation of Accent StigmatizationVideo link
1:50 – 2:10Online
English
Angelica Galante, Li Peng, Hannah Keim, McGill University“Someone engaged in plurilingual practices with me but in a very racist way”: Exploring discrimination and plurilingualism among users non-official languages in CanadaVideo link
2:10 – 2:30In-person
English
Marika Kunnas, York UniversityCultural and racial representations in French immersion classes: Perspectives from racially minoritized studentsVideo link
2:30 – 2:50In-person
English
Reshara Alviarez, University of TorontoA Language Friendly Approach: Bridging the linguistic divide in education in Trinidad and TobagoVideo link
Saturday, June 3rd
9.00 – 9:15 Joining and registration Room: IB110
9:15 – 10:30 Plenary Speaker: Ryan DeCaire
“The Role of Adult Immersion in Kanien’kéha Revitalization”
Video link to recording
10:30 – 11:00

Coffee and Online Poster Session I

IB110; Zoom Link: Esther Hye-Min Yoon, Irma Alarcon

IB260; Zoom Link: Rui Dong Chen, Anna V. Sokolova Grinovievkaya

IB270; Zoom Link: Kevin Martens Wong

11:00 – 12:30 Modality/Language Presenter Title/Abstract Video
SESSION 3A (Room: IB110)
11:00 – 11:20 In-person
English
Yuliya Desyatova, OISE, University of Toronto Meta-tasks as an Operationalization of the Action-oriented Approach Video link
11:20 – 11:40 Online
English
Gloria Romero, Universidad de Santiago de Chile Bringing Together Theory and Practice through an Inclusive TESOL Research Community in Chile Video available 
11:40 – 12:00 In-person
English

Enrica Piccardo, Danielle Hunter, Sanzana Rahman, University of Toronto

José Luis Ortiz Soria, York University

Promoting language teachers’ agency through plurilingual, action-oriented, and technology-mediated approaches Video available 
12:00 – 12:20 Online
English
Amy Parker, Waterloo RDSB Developing agency in the practice of supply teaching Video available 
SESSION 3B (Room: IB260)
11:00 – 11:20 In-person
English
Enrica Piccardo, Rebecca Schmor, Andre Scholze, Giacomo Folinazzo, University of Toronto Authentic and inclusive language education through plurilingual action-oriented scenarios: Lessons from an international partnership Video link
11:20 – 11:40 Online
English
Meihan Li, University of Regina Plurilingualism as an Intrinsic Capacity: Exploring Chinese EFL Teachers’ Classroom Language Practices Video link
11:40 – 12:00 Online
English
Ömer Genç, Dr. Hasan Mesut Meral, Yıldız Technical University A Lesson Model for the Teaching of Turkish Verbal Participles via the Pedagogical Grammar Video link
12:00 – 12:20 In-person
English
Richard Martinez, Ana García-Allén, Dewi Heru, Arameh Khadjevand, Western University Principles of Self-Efficacy and Students as Partners in Spanish as a Foreign Language Classrooms Video available soon
SESSION 3C (Room: IB270)
11:00 – 11:20 Online
English
Leanne Adegbonmire, Emmanuelle Le Pichon, University of Toronto Building a Network of Support: Conversations with Teachers and School Leadership on the Introduction of a New Multilingual Digital Tool Video available 
11:20 – 11:40 Online
English
Patrícia Ferreira de Brito, Ulisses Tadeu Vaz de Oliveira, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul The “Hand Talk” app and teaching English to Brazilian deaf students Video available 
11:40 – 12:00 Online
English
Mili Saha, Jagannath University Language teachers’ professional stress and emotions in online teaching Video available 
12:00 – 12:20 Online
English
Paweł Andrejczuk, University of Valencia Telecollaboration: A 21st century language teaching approach? Video not available 
12:30 – 1:30

Lunch Break and In-person Poster Session II

Olga Tararova, Ian McCallum, Adriana Williams, Xiaoyue Chen

(Room: IB110)

1:15 – 1:30 Closing Remarks and sharing of reflections (Padlet)