ANNIE STORKEY – MY MOTIVATION FOR RESEARCH
‘My research investigates how students with mental health challenges can be empowered to complete and pass their online studies. Open University students with mental health…
CHRISTIAN SCHMITT – THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF LEADERSHIP: DECISION-MAKING IN A GERMAN START-UP
This talk is based on my current PhD project on the discursive construction of leadership in a German start-up team. It examines leadership construction in…
INGEBORG KROESE – AN INVESTIGATION INTO GENDER EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN CORPORATE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
Employee training theory and practice is typically positioned as gender neutral. Programmes such as communication training are theorized and delivered as if the sex of…
JAGADISH POUDEL – ENACTING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN TEACHING FIRST-YEAR WRITING COURSE AT THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN THE US: SOME CONSIDERATIONS
Pedagogy, assignment, and assessment can play a vital role in ensuring justice to multilingual writers in First-Year Writing classes at the undergraduate level. In this…
JULIO A.B. SANTOS – THE PROBLEM OF AUTHORSHIP IN NOAM CHOMSKY: LINGUIST, ACTIVIST AND INTELLECTUAL
This presentation aims to discuss the discursive problem of authorship, having as object of study the linguist and activist Noam Chomsky. By concepting the author…
LILIAN PEREIRA DE CARVALHO: A DISCURSIVE LOOK AT FIREHOSING IN BRAZIL
Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) lilianpcarv@gmail.com The rapid, continuous and repetitive dissemination of (partially) false information may have contributed to important decisions made in…
PRAMOD K. SAH – UNPACKING THE LAYERS OF ENGLISH-MEDIUM INSTRUCTION POLICY AND PLANNING IN NEPAL THROUGH A CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY
This presentation reports on a critical ethnography of English-medium instruction (EMI) policy in Nepal’s public schools, which unpacks the nested politics and ideologies of planning…
SAGUN SHRESTHA – INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION IN CRISIS SITUATIONS
This presentation discusses the studies carried out on information and communication technologies (ICT) in education in general and ICT in education in crisis situations in…
SARKHAN HUSEYNOV – ASSESSMENT OF THE EUROPEAN PENOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE REGIME: MEANINGS AND THEIR SEMANTIC CHANGE
There are various institutions/actors which are constructing European penological knowledge regime through discursive practices. The current article attempts to analyse (re-)negotiation of meanings within this…
STEFAN RATHERT – TWO EFL TEACHERS’ EXPLORATIONS OF THEIR OWN COURSEBOOK USAGE
In this doctoral research, two EFL teachers explored their beliefs about coursebooks and their actual coursebook use in class through data-led, collaborative practice. The presentation…
VANGELA VASCONCELOS – SOCIOLINGUISTIC EDUCATION AND MULTIPLE LITERACIES FOR RURAL EDUCATORS TRAINING IN BRAZIL: A NEW PERSPECTIVE
My PhD research is on academic literacy practices and interaction frameworks of rural undergraduate students. The objective is to reflect on sociolinguistic education and multiple…