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Bernadette O’Rourke, Nicola Bermingham & Sara Brennan (2014).

Opening New Lines of Communication in Applied Linguistics:

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, 5-7 September 2013, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Scitsiugnil Press: London, UK.

 

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ISBN: 978-1-9559533-6-1

 

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Contents

 

Bernadette O’Rourke, Nicola Bermingham & Sara Brennan

Opening New Lines of Communication in Applied Linguistics

1

1

Abdullah Al Fraidan

Towards A New Process Approach to Rate Test Format Difficulty

3

2

Thamer Alharthi

Vocabulary Attrition and Retention among Arabic speaking English Graduate Teachers

17

3

Nisreen Naji Al-Khawaldeh & Vladimir Žegarac

The Communication of Gratitude in Jordan and England: A Comparative Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Study

29

4

Wendy Anderson & Ellen Bramwell

Of Anoraks and Oysters: Metaphors of Social Communication in the Historical Thesaurus

41

5

Richard Badger & Choo Tze Siang

Healthy Communication: the discourse of research and practitioners in health care

53

6

Maria Begona

When Language Issues Strike One’s Alma Mater: Responding to Language Regression and the Campus Community’s Resulting Linguistic Tension

63

7

Nitchaya Boonma

Low proficiency students’ motivation to learn English in the Thai tertiary context

77

8

David Bowker

Negotiating understanding and agreement in masters supervision meetings with international students – okay?

893

9

Esther Breuer

Academic Writing in L1 and FL

91

10

Yuko Goto Butler

Parental factors and young leaners’ motivation to learn English

103

11

Stephen James Coffey

TEPhL – Teaching English as a Phraseological Language: Changing learner and teacher perception of ‘words’

115

12

Chisato Danjo

Complementary Schools in the Global Age: Tackling the Diversification of Students’ Background

127

13

Ting Ding

Interactions between identity negotiation and language learning: learning Chinese as a heritage language in the ancestral homeland

133

14

Frank Farmer, María Elena Llaven Nucamendi & Ismael Chuc Piña

Views of professionalism in higher education teaching: modern languages compared with other disciplines

141

15

Davide Simone Giannoni

Whose Genre Awareness? The Case of Medical Titles

151

16

Korina Giaxoglou

Language and affect in digital media: Articulations of grief in online spaces for mourning

161

17

Chung Gilliland

When the power of language becomes unjust – some issues facing mainstream education in Vietnam

171

18

Akira Hamada

Effects of Task on Attention to Unknown Word Processing in Second Language Reading

183

19

Yusuke Hasegawa

Immediate or delayed effect of context: Japanese learners' vocabulary learning using translation

195

20

Michael Johnson

Assessing the Impact of Graded Readers on Non-English Majors’ EFL Learning Motivation

199

21

Kazuo Kanzaki

A Contrastive and Acoustic Analysis of Japanese EFL Learners’ Pronunciation of English Consonants

211

22

Dimitra Karoulla-Vrikki & Maria Vrikki

Early English Language Learning in Cyprus: Parental Perceptions of Identity and Intelligibility

219

23

Yukino Kimura

Effects of Reading Goal and L2 Reading Proficiency on Narrative Comprehension: Evidence from a Recall Task

231

24

Charles Ko

“Sorry! 對唔住呀,真係唔好意思...”: An Investigation of the Use of 對唔住 (Sorry) and 唔好意思 (Excuse me) and Strategies of Apology among Businessmen

237

25

Alan A. Lew, Lauren Hall-Lew & Amie Fairs

Language and Tourism in Sabah, Malaysia and Edinburgh, Scotland

253

26

Shuangling Li

Investigating the empirical validity of Conceptual Metaphor Theory: Corpus-based analysis of the metaphorical uses of time

261

27

Ying Li

Coarticulation effect on L1-Mandarin speakers’ perception of English /s/-/z/

269

28

Jill Llewellyn-Williams & Janet Laugharne

Triple Literacy: benefit or befuddlement? A study of the experiences of trainee language teachers in a Welsh language context

285

29

Suk May Low

Will Classroom Code-Switching be a Solution for Transition of Medium of Instruction? (A Case Study of a Malaysian Classroom)

295

30

Kevin Mark

A Fresh Approach to Teaching Lexical Phrases and Collocations

307

31

Helga Martínez-Ciprés & Sandra Saura-Mas

The Influence of a Self-Assessment and Co-Assessment task in Written Production in a CLIL Science classroom

319

32

Nozomi Miki

A Parallel Corpus Approach to Japanese Learners’ Causality in Argumentative Writing

325

33

Ian Nakamura

Exploring social patterns of actions in yes/no questions-responses: From practice of form to real-life consequences

337

34

Kyung-Min Nam

Children’s understandings of different writing systems and scripts: Korean written in the Hangul alphabet, and English written in the Roman alphabet

347

35

Mamiko Noda

Making Sense of Foreign Language Teaching Policy for Japanese Senior High Schools from a Discourse-Ethnographic Critical Perspective

357

36

Takeshi Okada

EFL Reading Instruction Based on Information Sharing among Multi-purpose Corpus System Users

367

37

Bárbara-Pamela Olmos-López & Jane Sunderland

The how and why of co-supervision of PhD students: reported understandings of supervisors and supervisees

381

38

Natalia Pavlovskaya, Samawal Jarad, Alex Ho-Cheong Leung & Martha Young-Scholten

What do adult L2 learners know about phonology after minimal exposure?

393

39

Elizabeth Poynter & Jane Nolan

English as a global language: where to for pronunciation teaching?

409

40

Teresita Rojas Gonzáles & Sara Liviero

Constructing intercultural communication: Task-based English for Medical Purposes in Cuba

423

41

Tereza Spilioti

Greek-Alphabet English: vernacular transliterations of English in social media

435

42

Hang Su

Language pattern and Judgement

447

43

Liss Kerstin Sylvén

Building bridges between content and language: CLIL investigated with a focus on academic language skills

453

44

Keiso Tatsukawa

Discourse Competence of Japanese Junior High School Students: Their Understanding and Awareness of Coherence

467

45

Marina Tzoannopoulou

Emotional Intelligence and Second/Foreign Language Learning: A Study in Higher Education

477

46

Yu Wang (Torri)

‘I have no idea of British humour’: How 39 Chinese students accounted for their incomprehension of humour in British academic lectures

489

47

Etsuko Yoshida & Mitsuko Yamura-Takei

Detecting patterns of sequences by coding scheme and transcribed utterance information: An analysis of English and Japanese reactive tokens as non-primary speaker’s role

505

48

Annalisa Zanola

New Lines of Intercultural Business Communication in the ESP Domain. Entrepreneurs’ Oratorical Skills across the Borders

513