2021 Poster Presentations

Vision of the self and online informal engagement with English

Vision of the self and online informal engagement with English (582.16 KB)

Alaa Alnajashi (University of York)   
AL
Using a sequential design (questionnaire followed by semi-structured interviews) the study investigates students’ online informal language learning habits (OILE) and whether learners with a high motivational profile (using L2MSS) tend to reduce the discrepancy between their vision of the self and their actual self through practising OILE in their free time.

Dental students’ perception of the English learning process

Dental students’ perception of the English learning process (405.11 KB)

Dental students’ perception of the English learning process
Oriana Onate (Universidad de La Frontera) 
ESP, RES
The poster presents research on the level of English, perception of the reasons for such a level of language as well as the influence of factors such as motivation, learning strategies and mother tongue proficiency, on the level of English achieved, after a semester of training, by seventy freshmen, enrolled in a dental program.

Holidays, a valuable cultural tool in ELT

Holidays, a valuable cultural tool in ELT (1009.08 KB)

Jorge Torres Almazan (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional) 
GEN
This poster will show how holidays can be a source for funny, communicative, and interactive tasks. Guidance and evidence of a variety of activities aimed at the four skills will be displayed. The activities are aimed to raise awareness of culture and traditions which are closely related to languages. Attendees will gain understanding of how to create their own.

Ways to visualize information in FLT: innovative and creative

Ways to visualize information in FLT: innovative and creative (1.63 MB)

Aida Tulegenova (L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University) 
LT
There are many ways to approach the concept of visualization. Visualization has been studied by a variety of scholars and researchers from such disciplines as art history, cognitive science, computer graphics, epistemology, graphic design, image processing, linguistics, semiotics, technical communication, and visual interface. At the present stage of informatization of education, the possibilities of visualization technology are noticeably expanding.

English classes with an autistic child in the group

English classes with an autistic child in the group (142.99 KB)

Lúcia de Souza Rabello (Colegio Visconde de Porto Seguro)
YLT
The main purpose of this work is to better equip English teachers to deal with autistic learners in a regular school. Given the increasing number of inclusion students, ASD being a possible diagnosis among them, it becomes essential to be prepared to deal with those students in an effective and affective way.

Incorporating student-led lessons into reading classes for promoting student engagement

Incorporating student-led lessons into reading classes for promoting student engagement (343.07 KB)

Fumiko Murase (Ryukoku University)
EAP, LA
This poster will report on a project in English reading classes at a Japanese university, where students were given the opportunity to work in groups and give a lesson according to their own lesson plan. The study investigated the impact of the student-led lessons on promoting student engagement and students’ perception of this new learning experience.

Positive discipline and classroom management

Positive discipline and classroom management (634.52 KB)

Birsen Tutunis (Istanbul Kultur University)
GI, TD
This poster presents Turkish EFL teachers’ (n=105) beliefs and attitudes towards positive discipline for a better classroom management. Subject teachers are chosen randomly  with the  maximum diversity sampling method. A questionnaire  was used to collect the data. It is an ongoing research and the results will be given during the presentation.

I can do it!

I can do it! (710.86 KB)

Jana Jilkova-Havlickova (ICV & Charles University, ATECR)
IPSEN, TD
Is engaging all students actively in the English learning processes a myth or an achievable goal? What can we do to motivate our learners to enjoy learning? How can we creating opportunities for mastering English and feeling success? This presentation demonstrates work created by learners at two lower- and upper-secondary schools and shares inspirational approaches used and discusses SEN support.

Teaching English to senior citizens

Teaching English to senior citizens (147.01 KB)

Olja Milosevic (The International School of Belgrade)
RES
This poster presents the case study that explored the impact of the English classes on older individuals who attended the course over a period of three years. It lists activities that senior citizens described as beneficial and includes the feedback received during the interviews. The feedback suggests that the course assisted participants to make new friendships and fight off loneliness.

A corpus-based approach to the UN Sustainable Development Goals vocabulary

A corpus-based approach to the UN Sustainable Development Goals vocabulary (492.24 KB)

Catherine Prewett-Schrempf & Andrew Pullen (University of Applied Sciences for Management & Co)
BE, GI
This poster shows how we incorporated teaching and learning of the vocabulary of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in a BA program for business students.  It gives an overview of how a corpus was used to select target vocabulary items, design of classroom activities and results of pre- and post-tests determining our students’ receptive as well as productive knowledge.

The effectiveness of Quizlet for vocabulary acquisition

The effectiveness of Quizlet for vocabulary acquisition (749.07 KB)

Desiree Verdonk (University of Applied Sciences Wr. Neustadt)
BE, LA
Based on the performance of 165 first-year business students, the study confirms that Quizlet can be an effective tool to support vocabulary growth. However, it also turns out that out of Quizlet’s seven study modes, the one most frequently used, i.e. Match, is the only one which does not make a statistically significant contribution to vocabulary acquisition.