BAAL 2026 Conference Programme

 
Tuesday 1st September 2026
09:00 - 10:30 Registration & Coffee
Location: Courtyard Lounge
10:30 - 11:00 Conference Opening
Location: CR 1 (Livestream in MR 144/145)
11:00 - 12:00 Plenary
Location: CR 1 (Livestream in MR 144/145)
Chair: Stephen Pihlaja

Scaled entanglements: towards understanding online/offline (inter)action
Jannis Androutsopoulos
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Location: Courtyard Restaurant
13:00 - 15:00 Session 1.1
Location: CR 1
Chair: Polina Gavin
Session 1.2
Location: CR 3
Chair: Leyla Silman-Karanfil

Colloquium
English Medium Instruction in Northern Cyprus: Navigating Policies and Practices in Building a University Island
Session 1.3
Location: MR 144/145
Chair: Elena Anna Maria Gandini

Language, Learning and Teaching (LLT) SIG
Session 1.4
Location: MR 141
Chair: Mel Evans
Session 1.5
Location: MR 139
Chair: Timothy Hampson
Session 1.6
Location: MR140
Chair: Joyce Lim
Session 1.7
Location: MR 135/137
Chair: Paweł Szudarski

Vocabulary SIG
Session 1.8
Location: MR 134
Chair: Sue Garton
Session 1.9
Location: MR 127
Chair: Lian Malai Madsen

Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF) SIG
Session 1.10
Location: MR 123
Chair: Emma Putland

Health and Science Communication SIG
Session 1.11
Location: MR 122
Chair: Jai Mackenzie
13:00 Initial indications of generative AI writing in linguistics research publications
Elouise Botes, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Joanne Colling, Ziwen Teuber
Twenty years of transition: The evolution of medium of instruction policies in Northern Cyprus higher education
Furkan Sevket Kir
Learner engagement in synchronous computer-mediated communication: Exploring the impact of multimodality during L2 collaborative writing tasks
Hayfa Al sakik, Phung Dao, Marijana Macis
Multimodal orchestration of disciplinary knowledge: Semantic transformations across textbook, video, and student notes in an EFL life science context
Hsinying Huang
Transforming EMI quality through student burnout and well-being evidence
Munassir Alhamami
Developmental convergence in L2 word skipping: Individual differences across L1 writing systems
Shiyu He, Sadeem Ibn Alameer, Dagmar Divjak
AI chatbots and prompt literacy for vocabulary learning
Sarah Alzeer, Nouf Alharbi, Abdullah Albalawi, Norah Alsharidi, Nazim Alqahtani, Maram Asiri
Invisibilisation of Manobo in Philippine language planning and policy
Rene Bonifacio
Performing language learning online: Influencers, platform economies, and digital interculturality
Milene Oliveira
Differences in lay and professional understanding of synonymous medical terms in falls care
Milo Coffey
Whose boundaries move? Asymmetric gender crossover and masculine defaults across literary corpora
Yuxuan Liu, Haim Dubossarsky, Ruth Ahnert
13:30 When second language learning apps incorporate AI: User perceptions of Duolingo and the AI-first approach
Elouise Botes, Pia Resnik, Gréta Sopronyi, Kata Csizér
Macro ambitions, meso promises, micro struggles: Unraveling the multilevel impacts of EMI in Northern Cyprus
Büşra Müge Özdil, Naciye Kunt
Virtual reality digital content creation for student engagement and vocabulary consolidation in secondary EFL Classrooms
Ming Chen
Multimodal literacy learning in social media-mediated EFL: Pedagogical transformations in Thai higher education
Kriengkrai Sakulprasertsri
Rethinking EMI classroom observation: Constructing a contextualised framework through Taiwan–UK collaboration
PEI-YU LIAO
L2 proficiency and exposure in relation to L1 reading automaticity: Evidence from eye movements
Shiyu He, Petar Milin, Dagmar Divjak
Vocabulary and text difficulty: How do different readers differ in lexical processing?
Laura Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, Justina Bružaitė-Liseckienė
Exploring the transformative potential of duoethnography for transnational language teacher education
Brian Morgan, Ruberval Maciel
Cooperative expectations and individual assessment - existing tensions under transformational conditions?
Lian Malai Madsen, Anne Larsen
“You've got the words and the actions”: Translanguaging as semiotic practice in monolingual professional communication training
Carolyn Morton, Kirsty Hughes, Betül Seda Battilani, Susan Rhind
Victimhood as process: A critical discourse and systemic functional study of trauma, identity and agency
Evangelia Mourtzanou
14:00 Introducing TAIL, a Taxonomy of generative AI in Learning (TAIL)
Zoe Handley
Living the challenges at the EAP-EMI nexus: An autoethnographic EAP narrative in an EMI higher education institution in Northern Cyprus
Leyla Silman-Karanfil, Ali Fuad Selvi
The impact of AI-Driven gamified learning tools on English learning for middle school students
Jing ZHANG
Multimodal writing in higher education: Profiles of students and lecturers
Duygu Candarli
A worldwide mapping of English-medium instruction
Peter Wingrove, Hans Malmström, Diane Pecorari
The transformative effect of oral corrective feedback on Kuwaiti EFL learners’ linguistic knowledge and willingness to communicate
Tahreer Alhajri, David O'Reilly
The effect of test format on assessing knowledge of English multiword units
Ayako Aizawa
The journey of transformation: A polyethnography of Swiss-Brazilian teacher educators
Irene Althaus, Edina Krompák, Cláudia Hilsdorf Rocha, Ruberval Maciel
Ethnographic drama as a creative method for enacting decolonial relational ethics
Daniel Calvert
Implicative strategies of advising: “my side tellings” in healthy weight coaching
Liliia Bespala, Magnus Hamann, Miriam Meyerhoff, Charlotte Albury
Inclusion or Illusion? : The representation of protected characteristics in UK-produced ELT textbooks
Mellidy Campbell-Lochrie
14:30 The paradox of generative AI scaffolding: Immediate writing gains vs. long-term retention in EFL
Weijing Zhou, Francis Nolan
Use of generative AI in English-medium instruction: Enhancing learning, teaching, and assessment in Northern Cyprus universities
Özgür Şahan, Kari Sahan
Linking motivational beliefs and informal digital learning: The role of peace of mind among Chinese EFL learners
Dongxia Pan
From “this is perfect” to “I am done with it”: An AI-mediated translanguaging space in digital multimodal composing
Karen C. K. Choi, Kevin W. H. Tai
EMI teachers’ English proficiency across contexts
Marie Vander Borght, Diane Pecorari, Ron Martinez, Hans Malmström
Affective individual differences, L2 proficiency, and task complexity: Interaction effects on L2 written performance
María Dolores Mellado Martínez
Exploring the effects on vocabulary acquisition of sequential versus simultaneous (dual subtitles) use of L1 and L2 captions
Injung Wi, Frank Boers
MOVED FROM 7.11:
Pluriliteracies in CLIL primary education in the Basque Country: a case study
Maite Amondarain-Garrido
The co-construction of a witness statement in a refugee family reunion case: mediating communicative practices in the preparation of evidence
Judith Reynolds
Sun, sea and storm surges: language and early warnings in Small Island Developing States
Guyanne Wilson
Animating the nation: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of identity and memory in post-conflict textbooks
Sofia Koursarou
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Coffee Break
Location: Courtyard Lounge
15:30 - 17:00 Session 2.1
Location: CR 1
Chair: Angela Creese

Colloquium
Applied linguistics research and the arts - Transformational possibilities
Session 2.2
Location: CR 3
Chair: Timothy Hampson

BAAL Mentoring Session: Challenges and Ways Forward
Session 2.3
Location: MR 144/145
Chair: Elena Anna Maria Gandini

Language, Learning and Teaching (LLT) SIG
Session 2.4
Location: MR 141
Chair: Duygu Candarli

Linguistics and Knowledge about Language in Education (LKALE) SIG
Session 2.5
Location: MR 139
Chair: Elvis ResCue
Session 2.6
Location: MR 140
Chair: Paul Thompson
Session 2.7
Location: MR 135/137
Chair: Paweł Szudarski
Session 2.8
Location: MR 134
Chair: Sue Garton
Session 2.9
Location: MR 127
Chair: Lian Malai Madsen

Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF) SIG
Session 2.10
Location: MR 123
Chair: Andrea Vaughan

Health and Science Communication SIG
Session 2.11
Location: MR 122
Chair: Aimee Bailey

Language, Gender and Sexuality (LGaS) SIG
15:30 The potential of collaboration between applied linguistics and creative practice
Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese
BAAL Mentoring Session: Challenges and Ways Forward
Timothy Hampson, Peter Browning, Sultan Turkan
GenAI transforming lesson planning?
Constanza Tolosa
Uncovering disciplinary literacy demands in high‑stakes school exams through SFL & corpus linguistics
Gail Forey, Reka Jablonkai, Dana Therova, David Beauchamp
Student-GenAI chatbot interactions for improving L2 English speaking: Differences in EFL learners’ use of functionalities
Meng Yu, Ursula Wingate
A new approach to analysing qualitative evaluation data using the UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS)
Katharine Kavanagh
Separating phonological identification from semantic access in auditory vocabulary size testing
Paul Nadasdy, Tatsuo Iso, Kazumi Aizawa, Kento Sato
Digital literacies across Korean communities in London: Use of messaging apps, multimodal choices, and impact on social ties
Gregory Stevens
Languaging as sirening: Ethical disruption and pre-emptive listening in the internationalising classroom
Luke Holmes
Constructing ‘care’ in ‘care homes’: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of UK care home websites
Emma Putland, Kevin Harvey, Gavin Brookes
From ‘Shagger of the Year’ to ‘celibate sluts’: Media discourse, gender and personal relationships
Becky Howard
16:00 Spoken Word Poetry and the Transformation of Applied Linguistics Inquiry: Reflections from the HEAR Project
Jai Mackenzie, Ayan Aden, Jasmine Gardosi
Exploring Indonesian pre-service teachers’ cognition and practices of GenAI-Assisted EFL teaching
Hasan Zainnuri
Designing language structure content in foreign language textbooks
Dragana Surkalovic, Øyvind Thormodsæter
Hybrid human–AI pedagogies for L2 speaking: Scaffolding, reflection, and responsible integration
Maria Wald
Transforming corpus annotation: A Multi-LLM approach to scaffolding tree-tagged learner corpora
Gavin Brooks, Jennifer Jordan, Jon Clenton
Multidimensional changes in L2 spoken performance following debate-based instruction: A pre–post study integrating Coh-Metrix and AS-Unit Analysis
Yuko Horiguchi
The transformation of timing: How digital environments reshape Welsh L2 learner-tutor interaction
Emma Grigorian, Mirain Rhys, Chiara Gambi, Fiona Carroll
Transforming applied linguistics through the cripping of linguistic ethnography
Christina Hedman, Liz Adams Lyngbäck, Enni Paul, Jenny Rosén
Linguistic expressions of ethical responsibility in AI-mediated medical advice: A corpus-based investigation
Roxanne H. Padley
Harmful speech in social media comments reacting to news of sexual assault accusations
Karolina Placzynta
16:30 Revitalisation as Contestation: The Politics of Regueifa and Artistic Co Creation in Galician Language Renewal
Bernadette O'Rourke, Paula Teixeira Molans, Aitor Bonsoms Garcia
Bridging the gap—lessons from three decades of speech technology and AI in language education
Zoe Handley
“It would be a win-win situation” - Hypothetical scenarios in simulated student negotiations
Almut Koester, Helena Lohrova
From Multimedia to Machine Learning: A Historical Content Analysis of Technology-Driven ELT Research Paradigms in the Middle East (2006–2026)
Azadeh Moladoost, Razieh Rabbani Yekta
How to follow up on tree-based modeling of alternations: Partial dependence scores and ceteris paribus ICE applied to the dative alternation in Kuwaiti English
Mohammad A. N. Alenezi, Stefan Th. Gries
Reframing teaching ICC in EFL classrooms in Chinese primary schools as a contextual negotiated process
Yupei Wei
Empowering impoverished communities through critical thinking
Claudia V. Angelelli
Expanding repertoires, empowering lives: The political and affective turn of translanguaging in Brazilian healthcare education
Ruberval Maciel
Prompting gender: text-to-image GenAI prompts as a socio-technical register
Yifan Wu, Carla Moriarty
17:00 - 17:45 BAAL Book Prize
Location: CR 1
LEF SIG AGM
Location: MR 127
18:00 - 20:00 Drinks Reception
Location: Courtyard Lounge
Sponsored by Cambridge University Press & Assessment


 
Wednesday 2nd September 2026
08:30 - 09:00 Registration & Coffee
Location: Courtyard Lounge
09:00 - 10:00 Pit Corder Lecture
Location: CR 1 (Livestream in MR 144/145)
Chair: Sue Garton

The learner-centred discourse in applied linguistics: At what cost for teachers?
Sarah Mercer
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Coffee Break
Location: Courtyard Lounge
10:30 - 12:00 Session 3.1
Location: CR 1
Chair: Caroline Tagg and Alex Ho-Cheong Leung

BAAL EC Invited Colloquium
The role of diversity in applied linguistics research
Session 3.2
Location: CR 3
Chair: Rosamond Mitchell

Round Table
Session 3.3
Location: MR 144/145
Chair: Bochra Kouraichi

Language, Learning and Teaching (LLT) SIG
Session 3.4
Location: MR 141
Chair: Denise de Pauw

Literacies SIG
Session 3.5
Location: MR 139
Chair: Tomasz John

Language and Education for Social Justice (LESJ) SIG
Session 3.6
Location: MR 140
Chair: Joyce Lim
Session 3.7
Location: MR 135/137
Chair: Jane Woodin

Intercultural Communication SIG
Session 3.8
Location: MR 134
Chair: Abigail Kinsella
Session 3.9
Location: MR 127
Chair: David Roxburgh and Zhiming Yang

Asian Language Education in Global Contexts (ALEG) SIG
Session 3.10
Location: MR 123
Chair: Sue Garton
Session 3.11
Location: MR 122
Chair: Polina Gavin
10:30 “We don’t need you to show us how to learn”: getting from ‘us’-‘them’ to ‘we’
Adrian Holliday

Multilingual and bilingual realities: tracing past, present and future turns in applied linguistics
Sultan Turkan

Diversity, power, and the particularity of human experience
Ron Darvin

Beyond the average learner – what diversity in profiles reveals about language learning
Suzanne Graham

“That's not linguistics”! Intellectual and collaborative diversity in applied linguistic research
Jai Mackenzie
Language in the school curriculum: Challenges in England
Rosamond Mitchell, Lucy Henning, Viktoria Magne, Rosamond Mitchell, Ben Rampton, Christina Richardson, Hua Zhu
Unpacking the L2 academic writing process from an ecological perspective: Chinese postgraduates’ agentic translanguaging and AI use in Hong Kong
Jing Tian, Jennifer Rose Ament
Mathematical literacy as social practice: Language hierarchy and translanguaging in an English-medium algebra classroom
Rongxin Zhu
Respect or fear? Institutional authority, discursive silence and the transformation of academic voice in Nigerian higher education.
Ifeoma Favour Onyeka
Transforming picturebook mediation through embodied dialogue for intercultural citizenship education
Sandie Mourão, Maria Bortoluzzi
Emotional trajectories and identity negotiation in Chinese students’ transition from EAP to master’s study in the UK
Xiangnan Feng
Exploring directed motivational currents in a study abroad context: Insights from Chinese EFL learners
DAI SHI, Yujia Jiang
Navigating the transition to ESL in Vietnam: A look at CLIL vs. Non-CLIL curricula in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Linh Ngoc Truc Doan
Exploring learner motivation in AI-mediated vocabulary learning among heritage Chinese children: Preliminary findings from a classroom study
Yingying Song
“My depressed ass laughing at memes” – representations of mental health problems in memes
Reeta Karjalainen
11:00 Do ‘good’ foreign language learners have distinct emotional profiles? A cluster and discriminant analysis study
Rachid Meftah
Designing a multilevel blended course for academic oral/multimodal literacies in English: A critical response to internationalisation demands in a Brazilian public university
Claudia Rocha, Ana Cecília Bizon, Eduardo Francini
Narco culture and English teaching in vulnerable school contexts in Chile
Gloria Romero
Constructing spaces of simultaneity: Translanguaging and culturally familiar artefacts in Indian EMI mathematics and science classrooms
Ayeswary Sivarajah
The impact of emojis on irony comprehension and memory in computer-mediated communication in the UK and China
Yiran Du
From shaming to shaping: Charting Chinese international students’ identity and attitudes in London’s linguistic market
Jiao Zhou
Redefining English language teaching in Punjab: Embracing translanguaging and plurilingual competence for equity, diversity and inclusion
Preeti Suri, Marina Orsini-Jones
MOVED TO 8.3:
Beyond private practice: Exploring the multi-dimensional impact of sharing AI-balanced teacher reflections in the ACS module at WIUT
Nazira Yuldasheva
Visuals speak louder than words: An audience perception and a critical discourse analysis of Saudi family stereotypes presented in Saudi caricatures
Ahlam Al Nahawi
11:30 From mindset to grit: Proficiency-sensitive motivational pathways in L2 development
Miki Satori
Digital media as a bridge in the transmission of Polish as a heritage language
Piotr Romanowski
Autonomy after emergency remote teaching: Equity and the limits of flipped transformation in the Global South
Edgar Emmanuell Garcia-Ponce, Irasema Mora-Pablo
Writing proficiency development in L1 Chinese speakers of English: A corpus-based Analysis of POS-tagged n-grams
Siya Zheng
Scattering seeds across the wasteland and rebuilding a home with bare hands: A path to post-apocalyptic salvation guided by Chinese values — taking the Soulslike game AI LIMIT as an example
Zhaoyin Zhang
Reconstructing language teacher identity: Ideology, investment, and emotion of Chinese pre-service English teachers in Ireland
Yujia Jiang, Dai Shi
Beyond verbal dominance: Multimodal translanguaging and strategic silence in ELF interactions
Saya Ike, Midori Tanimura, Etsuko Yoshida
Language learning belief change through teletandem participation
Levi Durbidge, Katherine Thornton, Tomoe Shimoyukawa
Climate-change denial and stereotypes
Michael Handford
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Location: Courtyard Restaurant
SIG Convenor / Treasurer Meeting
Location: MR 123
13:00 - 14:30 Session 4.1
Location: CR 1
Chair: María J. Arche

Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) Forum
Session 4.2
Location: CR 3
Chair: Sue Garton and Fiona Copland

Colloquium
Transformation in early English language teaching: Cinderella goes to the ball!
Session 4.3
Location: MR 144/145
Chair: Elena Anna Maria Gandini

Language, Learning and Teaching (LLT) SIG
Session 4.4
Location: MR 141
Chair: Ceri Morgan

Research Involving Children (RICH) SIG
Session 4.5
Location: MR 139
Chair: Tomasz John

Language and Education for Social Justice (LESJ) SIG
Session 4.6
Location: MR 140
Chair: Polina Gavin
Session 4.7
Location: MR 135/137
Chair: Jane Woodin

Intercultural Communication SIG
Session 4.8
Location: MR 134
Chair: Sultan Turkan
Session 4.9
Location: MR 127
Chair: David Roxburgh and Zhiming Yang

Asian Language Education in Global Contexts (ALEG) SIG
Session 4.10
Location: MR 123
Chair: Bochra Kouraichi

Humans, Machines, Language (HuMaLa) SIG
Session 4.11
Location: MR 122
Chair: Sin-Wang Chong

Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics (RSAL) SIG
13:00 Boosting the profile of linguistics in schools
María J. Arche, Suganthi John, Graeme Trousdale
Gradual transformations and persistent challenges in early English language teaching
Sue Garton, Fiona Copland
Children’s perceptions of language learning in the transition from primary to secondary school: Perspectives from focus groups
Jasmin Silver, Rowena Kasprowicz, Carmen Silvestri, Clare Savory, Nicola Morea, Hannah Davidson
Visualising self in translanguaging space: Children’s creative representations in a Chinese community school
Xin Zhang
Claiming voice in interaction: Language portraits and self-advocacy among people with physical disabilities
Cato Denissen
Staging the unspeakable: multimodal narratives of sexual violence in memorial museums
Min-Hsiu Liao
The identification and linguistic repertoires of Chinese 1.5-Generation migrants in the UK
Simin Li
Mapping the transformation gap in source-based writing: A process-oriented study of multilingual undergraduates
Stefania Pace, Odette Vassallo
Rescue responding: How response responsibility shapes silence in Chinese university EFL classrooms
Xinyi Wang
Reframing teachers as co-designers of AI-mediated writing pedagogy: Structuring feedback through P versus NP
Jerry Talandis Jr., Theron Muller
Heritage language education at a crossroads: A systematic review of two decades of research in the UK (2004–2024)
Xiangning Li, Yue Zhou, Yongcan Liu
13:30 When transformation meets assessment: picturebooks valued but marginalised in primary English classrooms
Sally Song
Rethinking mentor–trainee relationships in digitally mediated teacher education
Cecilia Nobre
Examining multimodal repair behaviours in other-initiated repair among Chinese children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Xiaolu Ji
Transforming TESOL teacher education for empowering disadvantaged girl students: Insights from an international project on teacher agency
Maksud Ali
Absent objects, present voices: Multimodal insights into visitor responses to museum repatriation
Elena Trowsdale
Beginning with the small: everyday materiality, the varicultural flow and intercultural hybridity
Adrian Holliday
Negotiating multilingualism: Language hierarchies in an officially trilingual region
Safà El Koura, Kristina Savic
Echoes and silence: A CHAT study of English teacher agency in a resource-constrained professional learning community in China
Meng Jin, Xiaozhou Emily Zhou
Design and evaluation of a socio-pragmatically informed chatbot for mental health support in male primary teachers
Joanne Mcdowell, Doris Dippold
Mapping language learning motivation research in socio-economically disadvantaged or rural contexts: A scoping review
Gréta Sopronyi
14:00 Transforming the hetero-norm: Gender representation in English coursebooks for young learners
Bekki Preston
Transforming our focus on listening strategy instruction: An enquiry on what L2 English teachers know about listening strategies
Daniel Fung, Suzanne Graham
(Re)producing literacy practices: Young children's capacity to participate in an uncertain future
Lucy Henning
Exploring elitism in foreign language learning in England through a Critical Realist lens: How young people’s study choices at Post-16 reflect the operation of social class mechanisms and the consequent risks of “widening” participation
Henrietta Ryall
Community, language, and heritage in former coal mining regions of the UK and Germany
Antony Hoyte-West, Natalie Braber, Evelyn Ziegler, John Bellamy, Nantke Pecht, Vanessa Angenendt
Translating War Reality: A Transitivity Analysis of Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War
Thuy Thi Thu Vu (PhD Candidate), Hang Thi Diem Hoang (PhD Candidate), Tien Hung Le (Assoc.Prof.Dr.)
Generative AI and the L2 writing process in EMI: Insights from screen-recorded writing practices
Hadeel Alamer
Beyond instrumentality: Trajectories of motivation and communities of practice in a peripheral L2 Chinese context
Sen Chen, Roula Tsokalidou
Negotiating ideologies in human-AI interaction: Agency and the need for critical digital literacies
Ron Darvin
Student engagement with written feedback in second language writing: A systematic methodological review
Jinghua Qian, Danli Li, Shaofeng Li
14:30 - 15:30 Poster Session
Location: CR 1

Please see separate list of poster presentations
Afternoon Coffee Break
Location: Courtyard Lounge
15:30 - 16:30 Session 5.1
Location: CR 1
Chair: Stephen Pihlaja

Lightning Talks
Session 5.2
Location: CR 3
Chair: Sue Garton and Fiona Copland

Colloquium
Transformation in early English language teaching: Cinderella goes to the ball!
Session 5.3
Location: MR 144/145
Chair: Sal Consoli

Round Table
Session 5.4
Location: MR 141
Chair: Ceri Morgan

Research Involving Children (RICH) SIG
Session 5.5
Location: MR 139
Chair: Tomasz John

Language and Education for Social Justice (LESJ) SIG
Session 5.6
Location: MR 140
Chair: Joyce Lim
Session 5.7
Location: MR 135/137
Session 5.8
Location: MR 134
Chair: Mel Evans
Session 5.9
Location: MR 127
Chair: David Roxburgh and Zhiming Yang

Asian Language Education in Global Contexts (ALEG) SIG
Session 5.10
Location: MR 123
Chair: Bochra Kouraichi

Humans, Machines, Language (HuMaLa) SIG
Session 5.10
Location: MR 122
Chair: Sin-Wang Chong

Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics (RSAL) SIG
15:30 “First we need to find a basic job”: Language ideologies and labour mobility in a narrative from Ireland’s ELT sector
Sarah Gallagher

Informal language exchange as social capital for Vietnamese migrants in Japanese higher education
Robert Higgins

Giving advice on paragraph length in an academic writing course: How long is "too long"?
Malcolm Prentice
Transforming English teaching in YL foreign language class: L1 as pedagogic resource, not deficit
Joohwan Yang
At the table: conversations on naming and ethics
Sal Consoli, Katie Webb, Kathryn Sidaway, Marianna Patrick, Yesim Kakalic
“Britain has never made me feel like my home”: Unpacking the racialised processes of heritage language development in the UK
Yue Zhou, Sabine Little
“I’m not going to say anything”: Silence, lived experience, and professional voice in Canadian EAP/TESOL
Aylar Adeh
How do secondary schools in England talk about Modern Languages? A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of school websites
Hua Zhu, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
WITHDRAWN:
Criticality as lived practice: Reopening inquiry in and beyond the classroom
Hang Lu
Recontextualising the expert: Writer identity and digital visibility in The Conversation
Isabel Herrando, Suganthi John
Plural Chinese, singular pedagogy: Rethinking Chinese language teaching in global contexts
Yang Zhang, Lip Vi Teoh
Linguistic alignment impacts perceptions of AI but not human doctors
Max S. Dunn, Zhenguang G. Cai, Stefano Occhipinti
From local insights to global synthesis: Proposing the multisite collaborative research synthesis (MCRS)
Takumi Aoyama
16:00 Language Choice in Church: Everyday language practices in European English-speaking congregations
Linda Sauer Bredvik

Neural phase entrainment and statistical word learning (scoping review)
Guro Stensby Sjuls, Nora N. Harvei, Mila D. Vulchanova

The impact of short-term study abroad on intercultural competence: A longitudinal study in progress
Joseph Wood
Transforming the way we look at materials in primary English language classrooms
Irene Rahmaniar
From handwritten drafts to AI-generated images: Digital transformation and multimodal meaning-making in youth STEM literacy
Rachel Salas Didier
Teaching practices and structural barriers: Exploring teachers’ agency to create gender-sensitive counter-discourses in Indian ESL classrooms
Kandharaja K M C, Harry Kuchah Kuchah, Aswini M
From digital stories to creative thinking: A large-scale UK primary school foreign language learning intervention
Pengchong Zhang, Alison Porter, Suzanne Graham, James Turner, Heike Krüsemann, Kate Borthwick
Information load in a network of research genres: How connected genres reroute linguistic and communicative resources
Oana Maria Carciu
Examining the Japanese learning experiences of international Students in English-medium instruction using the PERMA Model
Naoko Kojima
AI-mediated reflective dialogue in teacher education: Insights from a pilot study
Elena Anna Maria Gandini, Laura Walker
Charting a field in transformation: A meta-review approach to mapping applied linguistics
Sin-Wang Chong, Dongxia Nie, Qi Liu
16:30 - 17:30 Plenary
Location: CR 1 (Livestream in MR 144/145)
Chair: Joyce Lim

Harnessing sociolinguistic approaches for criminal legal reform
Sharese King
17:30 - 17:45 Forensic Linguistics at Aston University
Location: CR 1
Chair: Madison Hunter
17:45 - 18:45 BAAL AGM
Location: CR 1
19:30 -
Conference Dinner
Location: Courtyard Restaurant

 
Thursday 3rd September 2026
08:30 - 09:00 Registration & Coffee
Location: Courtyard Lounge
09:00 - 10:00 Plenary
Location: CR 1 (Livestream in MR 144/145)
Chair: Polina Gavin

Transformative to whom? Black linguistic futures and a freedom school paradigm for applied linguistics
April Baker-Bell
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Coffee Break
Location: Courtyard Lounge
Language and Race SIG Meeting
Location: MR 141
10:30 - 12:00 Session 6.1
Location: CR 1
Chair: Joyce Lim
Session 6.2
Location: CR 3
Chair: Sarah Atkins
Session 6.3
Location: MR 144/145
Chair: Bochra Kouraichi

Multilingualism SIG
Session 6.4
Location: MR 141
Chair: Sue Garton
Session 6.5
Location: MR 139
Chair: Beatrice Zuaro

English-Medium Instruction (EMI) SIG
Session 6.6
Location: MR 140
Session 6.7
Location: MR 135/137
Chair: Michele Gazzola

Language Policy SIG
Session 6.8
Location: MR 134
Chair: Nur Kurtoglu-Hooton
Session 6.9
Location: MR 127
Chair: Nathaniel Owen

Testing, Evaluation and Assessment (TEA) SIG
Session 6.10
Location: MR 123
Chair: Robbie Love

Corpus Linguistics (CL) SIG
Session 6.11
Location: MR 122
Chair: Sal Consoli
10:30 Automating the analysis of English article use in L2 learner writing
Matt Lucas, Atsushi Mizumoto
Participant narratives: Advancing openness and interpretive transparency in research involving interviews
Nathan Thomas
AI-assisted ethnographic research on multilingual mother tongue instruction in Sweden
Scarlett Mannish
Decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in the EFL classroom: A collaborative action research study
Irene Heidt
To proficiency and beyond: Transforming our understanding of EMI preparedness
Timothy Hampson, Jim McKinley, Pan Lin, Ikuya Aizawa
The paradox of dialect authority: National language policy and linguistic habitus in a Chinese primary school
Lijia Yu
Blending teaching and learning: A conceptual integration analysis of pre-service EFL teacher beliefs
Ronald Kemsies
NarratAIves: Integrating multimodal cues into the assessment of children’s L2 narrative comprehension
Hiu Ching Hung, Pei-Fang Rachel Wu
Arabic–English translation issues in legal and peacebuilding Iraqi contexts: Power, negotiation and reconciliation
Teba Naqash
When less is more: Rethinking motivation through 留白 in the language classroom
Siying Shen
11:00 Augmentation, not automation: A workflow for AI application in multimodal discourse analysis
Mark Birtles
English as a lingua franca in business: Perspectives from business professionals and business English teachers
Clarice Chan
Multilingual realities in British universities – International Chinese students’ language attitudes and practices at British universities
Qizhu Zhao
From proficiency gatekeeping to linguistic justice: Designing an Open Online English Course for subject teachers in internationalising K-12 Schools in Brazil
Eduardo Francini
Multilingualism in EMI: A longitudinal LCT study of knowledge development
Beatrice Zuaro
When does a dialect become a language? Discursive struggles over linguistic recognition in contemporary Europe
Maciej Nowakowski
Rethinking English: Extending language awareness through ontological reflections on language teacher education in Palestine.
Mohammad Imhemmed
Constructing pedagogical authority in AI-mediated language assessment: A critical discourse analysis of ChatGPT’s IELTS feedback
Khanh Linh Tran
Valency and metaphor: A corpus study of Holocaust oral histories
Daban Q. Jaff
Understanding learner experiences and intrinsic motivation in language learning beyond the classroom
Jo Mynard
11:30 GenAI meets psychometrics: Human-AI collaboration in scale development
Trevor Mahy, Hua Li
Mapping the development of multi-dimensional analysis in linguistics and translation studies: A bibliometric study (1988–2025)
Yang Liu, Yubin Zhu
To be or To well-be? An ecological conceptualisation of multilingual wellbeing
Xiangning Li, Yongcan Liu
Rethinking English name adoption in Hong Kong
Ying Ying Chiu
Shooting themselves in the foot: An idiodynamic investigation into EMI lecture coping strategies
Nathan Ducker
The challenge of measuring languages: Theoretical issues and policy implications
Hadeel Abdelkarim H M ALKhatib, Michele Gazzola
Pre-Service English teacher identity formation during the First-Year Practicum in Norway: A narrative interpretative phenomenological analysis
Burcu Uzunoner Aydin, Nathan Thomas
Investigating the effectiveness of fine-tuned large language model in assessing English speech scripts
Wenli Rao, Huimin Hu, Meng Zhang
From urban smog to silent killer: Multimodal framing of air pollution in the Vietnamese digital press
Minh Hieu Nguyen
English as identity: A narrative inquiry into L2 motivational selves among UK-based Cantonese heritage adults from Hong Kong, China
QIUMIN DENG
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Location: Courtyard Restaurant
13:00 - 14:30 Session 7.1
Location: CR 1
Chair: Joyce Lim
Session 7.2
Location: CR 3
Chair: Piotr Węgorowski
Session 7.3
Location: MR 144/145
Chair: Bochra Kouraichi

Multilingualism SIG
Session 7.4
Location: MR 141
Chair: Bettina Beinhoff
Session 7.5
Location: MR 139
Chair: Beatrice Zuaro

English-Medium Instruction (EMI) SIG
Session 7.6
Location: MR 140
Chair: Polina Gavin
Session 7.7
Location: MR 135/137
Chair: Michele Gazzola

Language Policy SIG
Session 7.8
Location: MR 134
Chair: Zoe Handley
Session 7.9
Location: MR 127
Chair: Nathaniel Owen

Testing, Evaluation and Assessment (TEA) SIG
Session 7.10
Location: MR 123
Chair: Robbie Love

Corpus Linguistics (CL) SIG
Session 7.11
Location: MR 122
Chair: Alex Ho-Cheong Leung
13:00 Validating the AI-Supported self-regulated learning in writing strategies (AISRLWS) questionnaire: Operationalizing critical AI literacy in L2 academic writing
Nga Nguyen, Joyce Lim
The wisdom of the body: The multimodal construction of participation in university student seminars
Nathan Speirs
Investigating the investigation: the potential in collaborative multilingual research in practice
Hannah Valenzuela
Gatekeeping access: English language proficiency testing and displaced applicants in Scottish higher education
Eva Hanna, Katerina Strani
Translanguaging practices in English medium instruction classrooms: Mitigating epistemic injustice, advancing equity, and fostering inclusion
Singay Singay
Meet the Editors The English language bill and the politics of recognition in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ)
Sharon Harvey
From unified to multicomponential: A meta-analytic investigation of paradigm shifts in language aptitude theory
Mireia Toda Cosi
Teaching to the test or teaching the language? - Washback from the English Proficiency Test coaching industry in South India
Meenakshi Rajeev
Rethinking imitation: a corpus-based comparison of human and GenAI creative imitative language
Mel Evans
MOVED TO 1.8:
Pluriliteracies in CLIL primary education in the Basque Country: a case study
Maite Amondarain-Garrido
13:30 AI-assisted engagement in English as a second language writing: Investigating the roles of prompt support and writing modes
Yijia Yuan, Phung Dao
Becoming a TESOL practitioner: Disciplinary languaging and the socialization of international students in UK higher education
Yunpeng Du, Miguel Pérez-Milans
Teachers' investment in pedagogical translanguaging: A longitudinal study of Indian in-service ESL teachers
Dhivya A P, Kandharaja K M C
Transforming approaches to analysing language bias in applied linguistics
Bettina Beinhoff
GenAI usage modes and learning motivation in EMI contexts: A mixed-methods study
Haoxin Shen
Doing Family Through Multilingual Practices: Family Language Policy in Everyday Interaction
Zhonghan Lin
From merger to contrast: Tracking English vowel development in Spanish L1 learners over time
Gabriela Valenzuela
Designing feedback for digital reading systems: Evidence from a longitudinal randomised trial
Dongxia Nie, Faidra Faitaki, Victoria Murphy
Corpus construction under constraints: Ethical and methodological lessons from compiling the BAWESS school‑writing corpus
Reka R. Jablonkai, Gail Forey, Dana Therova, David Beauchamp
Little cost to recognition, but bias by age 10? Mandarin-speaking Chinese EFL children’s word recognition and attitudinal responses to AI-generated Global Englishes
Zhuohan Chen
14:00 The effect of ChatGPT on students’ grammar complexity, accuracy, fluency, autonomy, and foreign language enjoyment
Seyyed Pedram Allah Veysi, Hossein Mohseni, Nasser Jabbari
Inside and outside the classroom: Exploring multilingual university students’ language practices and attitudes through paired language portraits
Mingwei Wang
Generative AI and its roles in language (teacher) education: A critical and proactive approach
Yue Zhang
Transforming curricula for linguistic and epistemic inclusion: a cross-country comparison of language transition
Angeline Barrett, Mats Deutschmann, John Misana Biseko, Eliakimu Sane, Justin Zelime
Generative AI in English-medium instruction in a Turkish setting: Perceptions, usage, and impact on academic performance and language proficiency
Dogan Yuksel
After the classroom: Welsh language trajectories in early adulthood
Daniel Strogen
Developing L2 learners’ productive use of single words and formulaic sequences in writing: The role of independent composition writing
Rebecca Moden
Embodied transformations in applied linguistics: Circle singing and digital assessment for aural and pronunciation development in higher education
Giuseppe Pantano, Amalia Rizzo
The machine learning turn in corpus linguistics: A systematic review of evolving methods and research trends
Bingru Li, Yang Liu, Jack Grieve
Sound, meaning, and discourse: Mapping language similarities between adults with down's syndrome and patients with Alzheimer’s disease
Sarah Curtis, Jamie Williams, Natalie Braber
14:30 - 15:30 Afternoon Coffee Break
Location: Courtyard Lounge
EMI SIG AGM
Location: MR 139
15:00 - 16:30 Session 8.1
Location: CR 1
Chair: Karolina Placzynta
Session 8.2
Location: CR 3
Chair: Celia Antoniou
Session 8.3
Location: MR 144/145
Chair: Sultan Turkan
Session 8.4
Location: MR 141
Session 8.5
Location: MR 139
Chair: Gee Macrory
Session 8.6
Location: MR 140
Session 8.7
Location: MR 135/137
Chair: Michele Gazzola

Language Policy SIG
Session 8.8
Location: MR 134
Session 8.9
Location: MR 127
Chair: Elvis ResCue

Language in Africa SIG
Session 8.10
Location: MR 123
Chair: Robbie Love

Corpus Linguistics (CL) SIG
Session 8.11
Location: MR 122
15:00 Bringing the backstage frontstage: How the production of written records shapes spoken interaction in emergency calls
Sarah Atkins, Joanne Traynor
Comparing GenAI- and human-delivered academic lectures: Evidence from listening performance and visual attention
Jiayu Zhai, Vahid Aryadoust
Beyond observation: Translanguaging in student diaries and the negotiation of “difference” in a multiethnic high school in southwest China
Yiao Dai
Users, learners, avoiders: The Japanese as a second language motivation of L1 English speakers
Steven Lim
The ‘promise' and 'peril' of bilingual education: A critical discourse analysis of policy, practice, and social reproduction in Sri Lanka
Sachin Wanniarachchi, Wayanthi Egodage
Supporting young children in rural, multilingual classrooms: the potential of out-of-school language and literacy practices
Kate Fox
Exploring disciplinary variation in journal article writing through key feature analysis
Paul Thompson, Bethany Gray
15:30 Constructing idiolect: A construction grammar approach to improve cross-genre authorship
Lucia Busso
Algorithmic ventriloquism: How East Asian EFL learners negotiate authorial voice in GenAI-supported L2 writing
Hao Zhou, Hao Liu
An investigation of Chinese-language student teachers’ perceptions towards translanguaging as pedagogy in teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages
Yuezhi Wang
Navigating transitions: Chinese transnational TESOL student-teachers’ teacher identity development in a transforming applied linguistics landscape
Dandan Zhang
Interpreting EMI policy: From macro-level ideologies to institutional practices in Chinese transnational higher education
Jing Liu
Enacting translanguaging in a Ghanaian multilingual classroom: Code choices in minority language classrooms
David Dankwa-Apawu, Yvonne Agbetsoamedo, Elvis ResCue
Mode and discipline effects on L2 academic vocabulary use: A large-scale parallel corpus study
Simon Fraser, Gavin Brooks, Jon Clenton, Jennifer Jordan
16:00 Modelling regional linguistic variation for forensic authorship profiling
Dana Roemling
“Not built for us”: A critical platform analysis of multilingual AI tools and their (mis)alignment with Sri Lankan communicative realities
Shan Wikoon, Sachin Wanniarachchi, Sahan Wanniarachchi
MOVED FROM 1.3:
Beyond private practice: Exploring the multi-dimensional impact of sharing AI-balanced teacher reflections in the ACS module at WIUT
Nazira Yuldasheva
Teachers’ experiences of teaching Welsh in English-medium primary schools
Jonathan Davies
WITHDRAWN:
An institutional analysis of language policy in the Iparralde (French Basque Country)
John Burn
Longitudinal Development of Syntactic Complexity in Chinese ESL Students – a Mixed Method Design
Liwen Bing
16:30 - 17:00 Conference Closing
Location: CR 1

 
List of Poster Presentations
The use of metaphor in cosmetic advertisements (A comparative study between luxury and budget brands)
Kholah Alrbaian

Cognitive load in AI-assisted vs. Non-AI-assisted L2 writing among low-proficiency EFL learners in Saudi Arabia
Asmaa Alshaikh

Stylometric signals of AI exposure: ChatGPT-influenced simplification and sophistication
John Blake

Washback in the age of generative AI: Evidence of AI‑shaped writing in paper‑based in-class L2 assessments
Damon Brewster

Transforming community language learning and teaching: Towards more inclusive practices
Mitchell Culhane

A day in the life of a teacher trainee: an England-Vietnam comparative linguistic ethnographic study
Khoa Do

Social media sentiment analysis and pre service teachers’ views of GenAI in English Language teaching
Lorena Salud Gadella Kamstra, Yue Zhou, Jessica Fernanda Cebrian Aguirre

Supervised machine-learning modelling of multilingual experience effects on inhibitory control and visuospatial working memory
Xuran Han

Metadiscourse shifts as indicators of interpreter mediation: A corpus-based study of Cantonese–English courtroom interaction
Sihui HE, Jiawei SHI

Beyond monologues: Lexical bundle length as a predictor of L2 fluency in academic multilogues
Christopher Hollis, Jon Clenton, Daniel Hougham, Gavin Brooks

Beyond reductionism in teacher education for multilingual and multicultural contexts: Towards a complexity-informed curricular framework
Asad Iqbal

Sixteen years of learning Mandarin Chinese: An autoethnographic study of motivation and self-concept
Sara Jaaksola

The emotional impact of generative AI tools on language teachers and learners
Sam Morris

“Party trick; it’s cool to brag about how many languages you can speak”: Exploring multilingual adolescents’ and young adults’ experiences and emotions
Kaisa Pankakoski

Synthetic personalities, authentic expression? Corpus evidence of big five traits in human and LLM-generated texts
Jiawei SHI, Sihui HE

Conflicting language ideologies, multilingualism and differential academic outcomes: Exploring the experiences of Black and Asian nursing and midwifery students in England
Kathryn Sidaway, Diana J Pritchard, Sibel Kaya

Teaching English grammar to younger learners: An empirical case study on secondary school students
Chi-Yuan Wang

Exploring pre-service EFL teachers’ translanguaging stances and practices in China: From theory to practice
QINGYANG WANG

CLIL for all? Examining a localised CLIL programme for Chinese EFL learners across socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds in secondary education
Yun Wang

From passive reception to collaborative action: Enhancing EFL students’ engagement with teacher written feedback through student-teacher-AI synergy
Xiaomeng Xiong, Di ZOU

Validity by design: seed-based LLM augmentation and scenario generation for CEFR-stratified interactional corpora
Tsukasa Yamanaka, Sayako Maswana, Nozomi Ishikawa, Hajime Terauchi

Chinese international students' language practices at a UK university: A multiple case study of in- and out-of-class peer interactions and participants’ situated reflections
Yushi Ye

The postnormative turn: Empowering non-native English speaker teachers through intercultural ELF teacher education
Ziwei Zhou