Conference Programme

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Thursday, 13th September 2012

08:00 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 Conference Opening

 

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MULTILINGUAL UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Chair: Durk Gorter

CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE
Chair: Eva Alcón

MULTILINGUAL CHILDREN
Chair: Patricia Salazar

LANGUAGE ATTRITION
Chair: Gessica de Angelis

  

09.30

Taking a stance on trilingualism: the discourse of administrative staff in a bilingual university.
Josep Maria Cots

Language switches and concomitant personality shifts among adult multilinguals.
Jean Marc Dewaele

Intervention for a lexical spelling difficulty in a trilingual child.
Georgia Zampia Niolaki

Foreign Language Attrition and Multilingual Awareness.
Manon Megens
Kathrin Obenhofer
Valentina Pittracher-Terek
Ulrike Jessner

  

10.00

Are university teachers and administration personnel positive about the implementation of trilingual language policies?
Aintzane Doiz
David Lasagabaster
Juan Manuel Serra

Cross-linguistic influences in Canadian learners' interpretations of Italian emblematic gestures.
Giuliana Salvato

Metapragmatic skills in early consecutive third language learners.
Maria Pilar Safont Jordà
Laura Portolés Falomir

Influence of L2 language attrition in L3 framing and conceptualisation strategies.
Mandira Halder

  

10.30

Motivation for the success of multilingual language policies.
Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez

Perceived cross-linguistic distance and exploitation of affordances provided by different levels of real formal and semantic similarity between language.
Stela Letica Krevelj

My Story Is The Best: Literacy Patterns in Ethiopian Families in Israel.
Anat Stavans

Linguistic inhibition and fossilization in the learning of Portuguese as a third foreign language (FL3). The case of Moroccan learners.
Abdelilah Suisse

  

Coffee Break

11.30

PLENARY:
JASONE CENOZ
From monolingual to multilingual perspectives in Third Language Acquisition research.

  
 

MULTILINGUAL UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Chair: Eva Alcón

CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE
Chair: Jean-Marc Dewaele

MULTILINGUAL PROCESSING & MULTILINGUAL CHILDREN
Chair: Laura Portolés Falomir

     

12.30

Three languages in the same university classroom.
Beñat Muguruza
Jasone Cenoz
Durk Gorter

Cross-linguistic influence in L3 lexical acquisition: The case of borrowings of lexical items among Romanian and Chinese learners of Spanish.
Silvia-Maria Chireac
Angel Huguet
Adelina Ianos

Perceptions of space in a multilingual mind.
Danuta Gabrys-Barker

     

13.00

Between Catalan and English: clashing stances in language courses for international students in Catalonia.
Lídia Gallego Balsà
Josep M. Cots

Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition. The case of Spanish as a third language in Estonian students.
Juan Carlos Monroy Pérez

Vocabulary acquisition in a foreign language. The primary effect in long time memory.
Judith Fusté Fargas

     

13.30

Intercomprehension didactics meets translation didactics.
Michael Ustaszewski

Including a non-linguistic dimension in third language learning pedagogy: The motivational effects of crosslinguistic awareness.
Alastair Henry

Trilingual child's linguistic multicompetence - Case "secret language".
Satu Rakkolainen-Sossa

     

LUNCH

 

MULTILINGUAL UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Chair: Josep Maria Cots

CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE
Chair: Danuta Gabrys

MULTILINGUAL CHILDREN & ADULTS
Chair: Eva Vetter

MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY & ACQUISITION OF PHONETICS
Chair: Johannes Müller-Lancé

  

15.30

First insights into multilingualism at the University d'Andorra.
Carolina Bastida
Josep M. Díaz-Torrent

Linguistic interferences from the Mother Tongue in Hispanic speaking learners of Portuguese L2.
Paulo Osorio
Maria de Graça Pinto

The more is not automatically the better: L3 learners' strategy use in a school setting.
Åsta Haukås

From 2 to 1: Effects of changes in lingua franca communication in a multilingual football team.
Hakan Ringbom

  

16.00

Exploring the advantage of third language learners in pragmatic instruction.
Eva Alcón Soler

Does multilinguality help overcome psychotypology?
Agnieszka Otwinowska

Multilingual strategies and multiple language use in a German-Finnish tandem course.
Sabine Grasz

Investigating the acquisition of L3 phonology; VOT patterns from a multilingual perspective.
Magdalena Wrembel

  

16.30

Receptive multilingualism: alternating languages in public speeches.
Durk Gorter

L1 or L2: Which is the preferred source language for content word borrowings in the oral and written description of objects on English as L3?
Maria Pilar González
Victòria Codina
Pilar Jara

The effect of German L2 proficiency on English L3 writing development.
Gessica De Angelis

Speech imitation/pronunciation talent in initial-and late-stage L2: from brain imaging to behaviour.
Susanne Maria Reiterer

  

17.00

PLENARY:
LARISA ARONIN
Current multilingualism and new developments in multilingual research.

  
 

20.00

Town Hall Reception

  
 

Friday, 14th September 2012

 

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ACQUISITION OF GRAMMAR
Chair: Suzanne Flynn

CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE
Chair: Agnieska Otwinowska

MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION
Chair: Larissa Aronin

AFFECTIVE FACTORS
Chair: Sofía Martín

  

09.00

Trilingual advantages: the copula verbs in Spanish.
Laia Arnaus Gil

Crosslinguistic strategies in models of multiple language learning.
Marijana Kresić

Educational practice and language learning in a multilingual school in Catalunya: joint activity and discursive practices in a language support classroom for immigrant children.
Neus Rodriguez

The effect of a stay abroad period and language proficiency on prospective teachers' attitudes towards three languages in the multilingual Valencian Community.
Laura Portolés Falomir
Otilia Martí Arnándiz

  

09.30

The use of Coh-Metrix to investigate L3 syntactic writing profiles of university Catalan-Spanish learners.
Teresa Navés Nogués

Multilingual Syntactic Influence: clitic placement among instructed L3 Spanish learners and the role of explicit metalinguistic knowledge.
John Witney

Pieces to puzzle on multilingual policies and multilingual education in the Nordic countries.
Mikaela Björklund
Siv Björklund
Kaj Sjöholm

Bridging the gap between the internal and the external: The effect of sociocultural factors in adolescent learners' attitudes towards English.
Richard Nightingale

  

10.00

Lexical transfer in L3 learning: Swedish as an L3.
Ylva Falk

A Psycholinguistic Approach to Cognitive Maturity on L3 Activation and Transfer in L4 Production.
Laura Sánchez

From Traditional Classroom to Digital Application: A Multimedia Experiment for Foreign Language Learning.
Grace Fang

Spanish Speakers' Motivation for not Furthering Proficiency in Spanish.
Sabrina A. Kalim Martinez
Teresa Navés Nogués

  

10.30

Multilingual acquisition of English: development of grammar through study of null anaphora.
Eva Berkes
Suzanne Flynn

Perceptions of multiple language learning and teaching in immersion education.
Siv Björklund

Language ideologies in minority school models-perceptions about language, bi-and multilingualism.
Eva Vetter

Multilingual immigrant mothers in Barcelona: Perspectives on language attitude and use.
Claire Basarich

  

Coffee Break

11.30

PLENARY:
OFELIA GARCÍA
Multilingualism in Education: Translanguaging for Social Justice.

  
 

AFFECTIVE FACTORS
Chair: Ángel Huguet

  

12.30

Language anxiety and EFL leaners' oral/aural performance.
Amira Massaabi

  

13.00

Attitude and motivation of Frisian and Basque secondary school pupils towards learning English.
Truus de Vires

  

LUNCH

 

CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE
Chair: Teresa Navés

MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION
Chair: Marta Forrat

LANGUAGE POLICIES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING
Chair: David Lasagabaster

     

15.00

Could learners' perceptions towards the (morpho)syntactic properties tested be crucial factors triggering CLI in early L3A.
Karima Ben Abbes

Foreign Language Teaching and learning in multilingual contexts: Outline of a research project.
Johannes Müller-Lancé
Amina Kropp

A Model for Psychological Traits Affecting both Cultural Adaptation and Foreign Language Acquisition.
Timothy Dean Keeley

     

15.30

Strategy use by the multilingual adults in L3 (or L4, Lx) acquisition.
Violeta Dmitrenko

Still Paying Lip Service to Multilingual Pedagogy.
Nicole Marx

Immigration language policy practices in English dominant countries - an insight into populations censuses and related language ideologies.
Antonio Oštarić
Sanja Škifić

     

16.00

Acoustic description of North-Western Catalan vowels read aloud by adolescents speakers with North-Western Catalan and Romanian as L1.
Josefina Carrera-Sabaté

When They Just Doesn´t Can Understand: Do-support in Multilingual Learners.
Simone Pfenninger

Code-switching data and third language acquisition: insights from subject-verb mixings.
Raquel Fernández

     

16.30

 

From trilingualism to triculturalism or not: a study of youngsters in the Basque Country brought up in multilingual minority language contexts.
Julia Barnes

English as L3 in the Context of Regional Multilingualism: How to Detect the factors of success to improve the proficiency of English.
Jildou Popma

     

17.00

PLENARY:
VIVIAN COOK
Would 'Multilingualism and Multicompetence' work?

  

18.00

IAM Assembly



  

20.30

Gala Dinner
Best Student Paper Prize

  
 

Saturday, 15th September 2012

 

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CASE STUDIES
Chair: Patricia Salazar

SYMPOSIUM
Chair: Richard Nightingale

  

10.00

Exploring the impact of the proficiency and typology factors: two cases of multilingual learners' L3 learning.
Christina Lindqvist

Language Attitudes towards Spanish,Catalan and English in Catalonia, the case of students of immigrant origin.

Paper 1: Immigrant students with L1 Spanish. Attitudes towards Spanish, Catalan and English in Catalonia.
Judit Janés Carulla
Maria Adelina Ianos
José Luis Navarro Sierra
Clara María Sansó Galiay


Paper 2: Immigrant students with L1 Arabic. Attitudes towards Spanish, Catalan and English in Catalonia.
Cecilio Lapresta Rey
Silvia María Chireac
Ángel Huguet Canalís
José Luis Navarro Sierra


Paper 3: Immigrant students with L1 Romanian. Attitudes towards Spanish, Catalan and English in Catalonia.
Maria Adelina Ianos
Judit Janés Carulla
Cecilio Lapresta Rey


Paper 4: Immigrant students with L1 Chinese. Attitudes towards Spanish, Catalan and English in Catalonia.
Clara María Sansó Galiay
Silvia María Chireac
Ángel Huguet Canalís

  

10.30

L3-Task: Language Association in a multilingual context: Blended Tandems (Spanish, German, Chinese) and a common Second Language (English).
Claudia Grümpel
Javier Orduña
Germán Ruipérez

11.00

Acquiring English as a third language by Hungarian minorities in Transylvania.
Zsuzsanna Degi

11.30

Learning English within the Plurilingual Algerian Context.
Samira Houcine

12.00

CLOSURE