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Tilly Harrison, Ursula Lanvers & Martin Edwardes (eds.) (2016). Breaking Theory: New Directions in Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, 3-5 September 2015, Aston University, Birmingham. Scitsiugnil Press: London, UK. 5.4 meg file ISBN: 978-1-9559533-8-5 Copyleft 2016

Contents

1	Hiroyuki Matsumoto& Chikako Aoki	Exploring EFL Reading as a Microsystem in Social Contexts: From the Ecological Systems Approach	1
2	Martin Edwardes	The Smoke and Mirrors of Linguistics: Challenging the hidden metaphors	13
3	Tamiko Kondo	Challenging government policy on English language teaching in Japan through collaborative action research: theory and method	25
4	Alexandra Grey	New directions created by Putonghua and English’s “double domination” of Zhuang language in China	37
5	Gerald Talandis Jr. & Theron Muller	Revisiting the action research cycle: Critically examining three cases of classroom-based language learning inquiry	53
6	Koichi Shimahara	The Influence of Experience as Non-Native Speakers on Beliefs of Native Speakers	75
7	Ali H. Al-Hoorie	Unconscious Attitudes toward L2 Speakers	87
8	Joana Teixeira	(Re)thinking the Interface Hypothesis and its Implications for Language Teaching	93
9	Yoko Sato	L2 Pragmatic Problems: Do Short-Term Study Abroad Experiences Help Learners to Reduce Them?	111
10	Seiko Harumi	The implicit role of classroom silence in Japanese EFL contexts	121
11	Ian Nakamura	Some conversational challenges of talking to children on the radio: The case of the Chris Evans Breakfast Show	131
12	Fong-wa Ha	A comparative study of evaluative acts in classical concert reviews in British and Hong Kong newspapers	145
13	Yoshinobu Mori	Do EFL Learners Discriminate Text-Level Main Ideas, Paragraph-Level Main Ideas, and Details During Reading? A Study With Self-Paced Reading	163
14	Eszter Tóth	Language-specificity of forensic linguistics: the example of Hungarian	173
15	Hiroko Suzuki & Miho Fujieda	Vocabulary learning grounded in an ESP community: Design and effect of a basic medical ESP course	185
16	Reiko Yamamoto, Takayuki Nozawa, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Shigeyuki Ikeda, Kohei Sakaki, Ryuta Kawashima, Craig Smith & Yasushige Ishikawa	An investigation of brain synchrony between students and their teacher during a secondary school EFL lesson	201
17	Davide Simone Giannoni	‘An international journal publishing high quality, original research’: self-evaluative categories in journal descriptions	213
18	Dr Huahui Zhao	A comparison study of teacher supported peer feedback and teacher feedback for EFL writing	231
19	Natsumi Tanaka	On-line and Off-line EFL Sentence Processing of Reduced and Unreduced Relative Clauses: Evidence from Think-aloud Protocols and Translation Task	255