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Jo Angouri, Tilly Harrison, Stephanie Schnurr & Sue Wharton (2015). Learning, Working and Communicating in a Global Context Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, 4-6 September 2014, University of Warwick, Coventry. Scitsiugnil Press: London, UK. 3.9 meg file ISBN: 978-1-9559533-7-8 Copyleft 2015

Contents

1	Thamer Alharthi	Bridging Vocabulary Knowledge Gap between Language Learners and ELT Textbooks	1
2	John Bankier	Softening the Boundaries: Academic Discourse Socialisation through Instruction in Japanese and English Writing	13
3	Keith Barrs	Lexical Semantics of English Loanwords in Japanese	29
4	ShouChun Chien	The role of speaker identification in Taiwanese attitudes towards varieties of English	37
5	Rosie Hedger & Dr Rachel Wicaksono	Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Multilingual Classrooms	53
6	Tomomi Ishida	Lexical ambiguity and L2 visual word recognition	67
7	Wan-lun Lee	Promoting literature-focused cross-cultural communication and collaboration between Taiwanese and Japanese EFL university students through technology-enhanced literature circles	79
8	Akiko Nagao	Identifying the Functions of Communities of Practice in an EFL Classroom	85
9	Ian Nakamura	Learning and working for meaningful communication in interviews: Making a transition from the teacher’s questions to the student’s questions and why it matters	101
10	Mamiko Noda	Distributing a monolingual strategy through English language teaching policy: A critical analysis of discourse practice by Japanese government officials	115
11	Takeshi Okada	Corpus analysis technology and a new blended EFL e-learning: toward real-time classroom management strategies	123
12	Richard Pinner	Authenticity in a Global Context: Learning, Working and Communicating with L2 teachers of English	135
13	Xuyan Qiu	The use of oral narrative tasks in second language learning: does a familiar topic make a difference?	141
14	Yoko Sato	Do short-term study abroad experiences help L2 learners to become pragmatically more appropriate?	155
15	Shaila Shams	English in Bangladesh: Is There a Bangladeshi English Creeping In?	165
16	Robert Sharples	Constructing and contesting the ‘ideal learner’: multilingual children in the UK school system	179
17	Natsuyo Suzuki	The impact of teacher questions and task design on L2 performance –complexity, accuracy and fluency- in EFL classrooms	191
18	Jiayi Wang & Helen Spencer-Oatey	Competence in building intercultural relations: Case study insights into the development process	205
19	Wang Yixin & Michael Daller	Predicting Chinese Students’ Academic Achievement in the UK	217
20	Rachel Wicaksono & Darya Zhurauskaya	A critical thematic analysis of York’s Hidden Stories	229
21	Daniel Xerri	The Value of Teacher Portfolios for Professional Development in TESOL	243
22	Mitsuko Yamura-Takei & Etsuko Yoshida	When Do You Use Pronouns? An Entity Coherence Approach	251
23	Elvis Yevudey	Translanguaging as a language contact phenomenon in the classroom in Ghana: Pedagogic relevance and perceptions	259
24	Dr Xiaozhou Zhou	Personal Identity and Global Engagement: Chinese University Teachers’ Use of the L1	271