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Alasdair N. Archibald (ed.) (2013). Multilingual Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, 6-8 September 2012, University of Southampton. Scitsiugnil Press: London, UK. 3.1 meg file ISBN: 978-1-9559533-5-4 Copyleft 2013

Contents

1	Adegboye Adeyanju	Indigenous Middle Belt Peoples and their Hausa Neighbours: Linguistic Right, Politics and Power in Nigeria	1
2	Cem Alptekin & Gülcan Erçetin	Relationships between Reading Span Tasks and L2 Learning: Possibilities for Concern Involving Construct Equivalency	7
3	Siân Alsop & Hilary Nesi	The summarising function of university Engineering lectures: a cross-cultural perspective	11
4	Tanja Angelovska	The role of (meta)linguistic awareness in cross-linguistic interferences of L3 English	15
5	Robert Bianchi	Online Language Choice and Identity: The case of 3arabizi, Salafi English, and Arabic	19
6	Han Bing, Tian Hui & Liu Lirui	An Analysis of the Washback Effect of TEM-4 on Teaching of English Majors – Taking Beijing Sport University as an Example	23
7	Paul Booth	The variability of lexical diversity and its relationship to learning style	27
8	Esther Breuer	Idea Generation in L1 and FL Writing	31
9	Danielle Candel	The emergence of Applied Linguistics in France – investigated through its scientific Journals (1962-2012)	35
10	Lucy Chambers & Evelina D Galaczi	Test-taker familiarity and speaking test performance: Does it make a difference?	39
11	Jiaoyue Chen	A study of formulaic language in Chinese EFL learners writing at university level	43
12	Louise Courtney	The role of context in forming young learners’ attitudes and motivation to learning French	47
13	Doris Dippold	Students’ rights in higher education classrooms: An exploration of tutors’ beliefs and their turn-taking practices	51
14	Sachiyo Fujita-Round	The Story of Young Jae: JSL learning experience of a Korean School Age Sojourner in Tokyo	55
15	Shuang Gao	‘I don’t want to talk about the bullshit’: Foreigner talk and the Quest for Authenticity	61
16	Nicholas Gatlin	Black College Students: Their Motivation and Anxiety Levels Regarding Foreign Language Acquisition	65
17	Feifei Han	The Contribution of Lexical Access and Working Memory to Reading and Incidental Vocabulary Learning in FL	69
18	Yusuke Hasegawa	How the Profiles of Words and Sentences Affect Contextualized Vocabulary Learning: Validation Study for Webb (2007)	73
19	Najma Husain	Role and Significance of Urdu: The Lingua Franca of Pakistan	77
20	Hana Ibberson	Can Learners Self-assess Their Speaking Ability Accurately?	81
21	Sylvia Jaworska	First of all, I have to say that….The development of formulaic repertoires in L2 English at B2 and C1 levels: a corpus-driven and cross-linguistic comparison	85
22	Sanja Čurković Kalebić	Discourse markers in the talk of non-native speaker teachers of English	91
23	Chian-Wen Kao & David Wible	An Investigation into Focused Feedback Effectiveness: The Distinction between Rule-based and Lexically-based Error Types Matters	97
24	Michiko Kasuya	A multi-modal comparative analysis of British and Japanese news discourses in the representation of environmental issues	101
25	Somruedee Khongput	Writing Assessment Practices of Thai EFL Teachers: Case Studies	105
26	Richard Kiely & Md Shahidullah	University English: monolingual and multilingual perspectives	109
27	Patrick Kiernan	Modeling Communication in an Online Community of Cyclists	113
28	Kwengnam Kim	Can online role-playing games help improve Korean children’s vocabulary and reading skills?	117
29	Wakako Kobayashi	The Use of Can-Do Statements for Assessing the Writing Skills of Japanese University Students	121
30	Daniel M.K. Lam	‘Hey, you’ve missed out a point!’: Co-construction of interactional competence through contriving disagreement in peer group speaking assessment	125
31	Ursula Lanvers	The UK language learning crisis in the public media: A critical analysis	129
32	Patrick Chi-wai Lee	Do We Really Understand an ‘Invisible’ Object Argument in English?	133
33	Wan-lun Lee	The practice and effects of using blog-assisted online extensive reading programme in ELT	137
34	Jacqueline Léon	The institutionalization of Applied Linguistics in the USA	141
35	Sheng Li	It is really about me! Using local grammar to detect singular first person patterns in tweets	145
36	Liang Liao	Gaps between Business English taught and workplace requirements in China	151
37	Phoebe M S Lin	More than music to our ears: the value of the phonological interface in a comprehensive understanding of vocabulary acquisition and knowledge	155
38	Siân Lloyd-Williams & Enlli Môn Thomas	Bilingual acquisition of opaque structures in Welsh: the case of the Welsh answering system	159
39	Małgorzata Machowska-Kościak	Language as a symbol of social group identity, an emblem of group membership and solidarity	163
40	Rachel Mapson	Politeness in British Sign Language: the effects of language contact	167
41	Adrian Millward-Sadler	Saying it Right: Austrian-German students use of get in scientific writing	171
42	Deirdre Murphy & Colin Flynn	Common ground between minority and majority languages: The case of identity	175
43	Shingo Nahatame	Semantic and Causal Relatedness in the Process of Predictive Inference Generation Among Japanese EFL Readers	181
44	Samia Naz	Creating spaces for language learning despite institutional conditions: research with English and Urdu teachers in two higher education contexts in Pakistan	187
45	Catherine O’Grady, Lynda Yates & Maria R. Dahm	Building and threatening trust in medical consultations	191
46	Maximiliano Eduardo Orlando	Teaching L1 Spanish Speakers to Write Formal Requests in English: Some Aspects to Consider	195
47	Taha Rajab	Syria secondary school EFL teachers’ instructional practices and the interactional patterns	199
48	Barry Lee Reynolds & David Wible	Word form variation matters more than frequency of exposure in incidental vocabulary acquisition	205
49	Venetia Russell	Construction of Identity in a Successful Language Learner	209
50	Yoko Sato	The Impact of Short-Term Study Abroad Experiences on Japanese University English Learners’ Communicative Competence: Learner Perception	213
51	Yoko Sato	Short-term ESL study abroad: Are Japanese students “more pleasant” to talk to after the programme?	219
52	Adam Serag	The Theory and Practice of Self-Access Language Learning: Redefining Learner Autonomy in the Japanese Context	225
53	Aki Siegel	Utilizing the Hybrid Intercultural Language Learning Environment	229
54	Joseph Siegel	Advancing L2 listening pedagogy: Process-based Listening Instruction	233
55	Shuichi Takaki	Facilitation Effects of Text Repetition on EFL Reading Comprehension Depend on the Hierarchical Structure of the Text	237
56	Dietmar Tatzl	Lecturer Interviews on Content Teaching in Tertiary English-Medium Degree Programmes	241
57	Klaus Thiele	Anthropomorphism in the discourse of IT support forums and blogs	245
58	Marisa Ueda	Intermediate Listeners’ Needs for Listening Comprehension in the English as a Foreign Language Context	249
59	Maria Vrikki	Learner code-switching: Can it be used as a tool for L2 fluency development?	255
60	Liyuan Wang	Chinese business students’ participation in case-based small group discussions in British seminars	259
61	Fiona Willans	Ol problem/s blong transcription: How can the ‘flexibly bilingual’ use of English and an English-lexified pidgin best be captured?	263
62	Guyanne Wilson	‘More pleasant on the ear’: Language ideologies in choral singing in Trinidad	267
63	Peiling Xing & Eoin Jordan	Chinese Learners’ Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Vocabulary Size	271
64	Mitsuko Yamura-Takei & Etsuko Yoshida	A Centering Analysis of a Comparable Learner/Native-speaker Corpus	275