Name

Title of presentation

Affiliation

Mikio Iguchi

Psychological factors Affecting the use of English as a Second Language: A Qualitative Study of Motivation and Identity among Japanese in the British Context

University of Warwick

Young Ok Jong

The Pedagogical Value of Collaborative Writing

University of Warwick

Chihiro Inoue

Which performance measures discriminate among different levels of English speakers? Investigating general measures of fluency, accuracy, and complexity and specific measures with a narrative task

Lancaster University

Amaya Vázquez

A Study of linguistic transfer in the oral discourse of learners of English as a foreign language in the framework of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the Autonomous Community of Madrid.

Centro Superior de Estudios Universitarios La Salle Madrid

Kathy K Lee

Metaphor as both linguistics and non-linguistic resource in the tertiary science classroom

Hong Kong Polytechnic University;
Lancaster University

Ka-po Eleanor Kwan

Business students’ stories about writing: Changes in notion of writing and identity

Lancaster University

Flavia Azeredo

The role of working memory in the effectiveness of recasts and models in SLA

C.C. Matthew Sung

Native or non-native English teachers?: Hong Kong students’ perspective

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Evriklea Dogoriti

A model for evaluation of ESL Web links for Greek students

University of Ioannina-Greece

Sebastian Muth

Linguistic landscapes, ethnicity and the spread of English – Two case studies from Lithuania and Moldova (Literacy)

Greifswald University

Fu-Tsai Hsieh

The Effect of Context in Chinese Object Pronoun Interpretation

University of York

Steve Disney

The World English Model revised: definite article use in ICE-GB and ICE-HK

Lancaster University

Caterina Cuardamagna

Fare (‘to do’) as a reportative verb in Italian

Lancaster University & University of Pavia

Ron Peek

Are you a polyglot or not? Some key issues

Birkbeck;
University of London

Patrick Connolly

Reduction and renewal in the Irish After-Perfect.

Queen’s University Belfast

Mariachiara Berizzi;
Silvia Rossi

Something Here What Made Me Think.
The Status of Relative What in the Dialects of English

University of Padua, Italy

Clement Appah

Argument Inheritance in Deverbal Nominals in Akan

Lancaster University

Rob Drummond

Patterns of Acquisition: Sociolinguistic Reasons behind the Acquisition of Local Accent Features amongst Native Polish Speakers in Manchester

University of Manchester

Elena Castellari

A comparative study of the linguistic practices of two migration wives of the Italian community in Ireland: a variationist perspective on the English language use of older and younger people.

University College, Dublin

Ana Tominc

Exploring the genre of a cookery book

Lancaster University

Paul Sarazin

Speeches on Liberalising Trade between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries: Linguistic and Political Context

Lancaster University

Nam Hee Cho

The role of peers in peer feedback interaction

Oxford Brookes University

Ralph Guth

Linking the Knowledge-based Economy with Development

Lancaster University

Wen Jing
(Emmy)

Soft power projection: Discursive formulation of legitimation in Chinese government discourse on Sino-African relation in 21st century

Lancaster University

Neil Millar

Assessing the processing demands of learner collocations on native speakers

Lancaster University

Francesca Gallina

The LIPS corpus (Lexicon of Spoken Italian by Foreigners) and the acquisition of vocabulary of learners of Italian as L2

University for Foreigners of Siena

Wesam Ibrahim;
Mazura Muhammad

A corpus-based approach to modal worlds in a crossover fantasy

Lancaster University

Sam Kirkham

‘Coming out of homosexuality’: conceptual metaphor in ex-gay narratives

University of Sheffield

Kelly Stanger

Curious connections: a stylistic analysis of epistemic connectives and explanations in Haddon’s novel ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’

University of Huddersfield

Ayako Tominari

Comparison of female and male sports hero constructions in newspaper coverage

Lancaster University

Hanna Bulawka

Powerless Female Leaders: discursive constructions of women politicians in the Polish press

University of Birmingham

Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty

From “I” to “You”: a look at discursive hegemony of love in Iranian love blogs

Lancaster University

Irene Pascual Peña

A study of the development of structure and modality in the argumentative genre

CSEU La Salle, Spain

Yong Yi
(Poster)

What makes for quality in narrative writing in English as a Foreign Language?

Leeds Metropolitan
University

Rómina de Mello Laranjeira (Poster)

Literacy and Adult Education: Discourse and identity

University of Minho

Elizabeth M. C. Guerin (Poster)

Initial findings from a pilot study on language teacher perceptions of Language Assessment Literacy

Lancaster University