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Martin Edwardes (ed.) (2017). Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics: Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe, 11-13 September 2008. Scitsiugnil Press: London, UK. 4.1 meg file ISBN: 978-1-9999369-1-4 Originally published 2009 as a CD Rom book Copyleft 2009

Contents

1	Erik Schleef	Meetings Secretary Report	1
2	Muhammad M. Abdel Latif	What Do We Mean by Writing Fluency? Proposing a new measure for assessing fluent written language production	3
3	Yonas Mesfun Asfaha	Sources of Pressure in Multilingual Education in Eritrea	5
4	Will Baker	Putting the Culture into Intercultural Communication: intercultural awareness	7
5	Minhee Bang & Susan Hunston	The Corpus and the Stereotype: a research tale	11
6	Huw Bell	Measuring the Syntactic Complexity of Embedded Clauses	13
7	Grace Bota & Jane Sunderland	Understandings of Gender and Silence in a Ghanaian Community of Practice	15
8	Dermot F. Campbell, Yi Wang & Ciaran McDonnell	FS ≠ FS (Formulaicity and Prosody)	17
9	Shuchen Chang	A Preliminary Categorisation of Techniques of Simplification in ESL/EFL Graded Readers	19
10	Yu Lin Cheng	Measuring Bilingual Proficiency and Grouping Participants: a different approach	21
11	Chu-yao, Chiu	An Investigation of Gender Differences in EFL College Writing	25
12	Jon Clenton	Investigating the Construct of Productive Vocabulary: comparing different measures	27
13	Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo	Examining the Discursive Construction of ‘Newmannism’ in British Men’s Magazines’ Problem Pages	29
14	Kaori Doi	An Analysis of Second Language Acquisition by Non-Native Speakers of Japanese	31
15	Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis	Examining the Pragmatic Competence of Greek Cypriot Learners of English in Oral Requests – A comparison with American native speakers	33
16	Janet Enever	Why Applied Linguistics is not Enough. Contemporary early foreign language learning policy in Europe: a critical analysis	37
17	Frank Farmer & María Elena Llaven Nucamendi	Applied Linguistics and the ELT Profession	39
18	Simon Fraser	Beyond the Academic Word List: providing ESP learners with the words they really need	41
19	Esther Galliker	How to Deal with Linguistic Variation: a conceptual approach to Swiss-German youth talk	45
20	Sheena Gardner	Evaluation across Disciplinary Groups in University Student Writing: the critique genre family as texts and text	47
21	Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor	Book Review Writing at University: applying genre theory to the classroom	51
22	Svetlana Gorokhova	The Decomposition of Idioms during Sentence Production	53
23	Valerie Hobbs	Code-Switching in Japanese Language Classrooms	55
24	Susan Hogben	Take the Lead: manipulating ambiguity in advertisements for alternative sexual partners	57
25	Junko Hondo, Chieko Kawauchi & Junichi Saito	Converting Learners’ Thinking into Quantitative Data	61
26	İlknur İstifçi	Do Post-Reading Activities Improve the Retention of Vocabulary?	63
27	Meredith Izon	Taking Time to Take Measure: linguistic ethnography in youth language and identity research	65
28	Christina Janik	Who is Speaking to Me from this Bottle? Measuring subjectivity in food packaging texts	69
29	Sanja Čurković Kalebić	The Use of Sentence Adverbials in the Written Discourse of L2 Students of English: results of an analysis	71
30	Jia (Joan) Li	“I Know the Word Meaning but in Chinese”: the validity and implications of bilingual vocabulary tests	75
31	Katja Mäntylä & Ari Huhta	Assessing Lexical Awareness: EFL learners and English word-formation	77
32	Ian Nakamura	Conversation Analysis for Language Teachers: refining descriptions to facilitate teacher-student talk	79
33	Hilary Nesi	A Multidimensional Analysis of Student Writing across Levels and Disciplines	81
34	Yupaporn Piriyasilpa	Rhetorical Structure in EFL Students’ Online Discussion Postings	85
35	Paul Roberts	Communication Strategies in English as a Lingua Franca	89
36	Rema Rossini Favretti	Grounding Frame Elements Identification in Corpus Collocational Patterns	91
37	Jacek Rysiewicz	Measuring aptitude - Polish adaptation of Modern Language Aptitude Test by Carroll and Sapon	93
38	H. Müge Satar	Multimodal Computer Mediated Communication	95
39	Erik Schleef	Testing Times for New Citizens: media discourses around citizenship tests in three countries	99
40	Noëlle Serpollet	From ESLO 1 to ESLO 2: Measuring the sociolinguistic variations within two corpora of spoken French	103
41	Sabina Sica	The Role of Mediation in L2 Vocabulary Learning	107
42	James Simpson	Language Appropriation and Online Textual Identity	109
43	Massimiliano Spotti	Modernist Entry Tickets for Post-Modern Sociolinguistic Realities: the testing of immigrants for admission to the Netherlands	111
44	Stefanie Stadler & Helen Spencer-Oatey	Ongoing Communication in International Projects: applying linguistics to these realities	113
45	Alison Stewart	The Problem of Position: Researching identity in English teachers at Japanese universities	115
46	Pia Sundqvist	Taking a Quantitative Measure of Oral Proficiency in EFL	117
47	Cornelia Tschichold	French Vocabulary in encore tricolore: do pupils have a chance?	119
48	Elizabeth Turner	Sizing up the Argument: qualitative and quantitative dimensions	121
49	Amy Y-T Wang	Vagueness in Interaction: A cross-cultural examination of vagueness in Taiwanese and British courtroom discourse	123
50	Jill Llewellyn Williams	Use it or Lose it: retrieving lost language skills from the dusty corners of memory	125
51	Jane Woodin	Cultural Categorisation: what can we learn from practice? An example from tandem learning	127
52	Junko Yamashita & Nan Jiang	L1 Influence on the Processing of L2 Collocations: a case of Japanese ESL speakers	129
53	Mami Yoshida	Are They Really Thinking-Aloud? Comparison of think-aloud processes between a group-administered session in a language laboratory and an individually conducted session	131