Schedule

Friday, June 18th, 2021

9:50 – 10:00

Welcome and Introduction

10:00 – 11:00

Plenary Speaker I – Ron Darvin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Technology and social justice: Claiming the right to speak in an unequal digital world

Educational Settings

11:00 – 11:30

Manuela Vida-Mannl,

TU Dortmund University, Germany

COVID-19 as a stratifying feature – mobility trajectories of international students and (new) teachers

11:30 – 12:00

Stefanie Guhl & Daniel Rellstab,

PH Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education, Germany

Teachers’ perspectives on pandemic-related changes in language education for newly arrived migrant students in schools in Baden-Württemberg / German

12:00 – 12:15

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Poster Session #1

12:15 – 1:00

1. Second Language Acquisition Among Queer Students and Students with Immigrant Background in Pandemic Times

Jeannette Jeffrey, University of Iceland

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2. English as an additional language for refugees in Greece: Opportunities for equality through online learning

Susan Stetson-Tiligadas, Ph.D & Jane Mandalios Ed.D, The American College of Greece

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3. Social learning via online technologies

Alice McCoy-Bae, University of Texas at Austin

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1:00 – 1:30

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Educational Settings

1:30 – 2:00

Naoko Ozaki, Rice University,

Yuki Waugh, Texas A&M University,  &

Yayoi Takeuchi, University of North Texas

Social issues in Japanese language classrooms: Pilot study

2:00 – 2:30

Eunhye Hess, Svetlana Koltovskaia, & Amy Takebe,

Oklahoma State University

Talking about racial injustice through simulations in the international composition classrooms

2:30 – 3:00

Rey Romero,

University of Houston – Downtown

COVID-19 and the Hispanic community: A metacultural space in the medical Spanish virtual classroom

3:30 – 4:00

Zhenjie Weng, Jingyi Zhu, & Grace Jue Yeon Kim,

The Ohio State University

Collaborative autoethnography on transitions and adjustments in online language teaching during the pandemic

4:00 – 4:15

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4:15 – 5:00

Discussion Panel with Plenary Speakers

Saturday, 19th June, 2021

8:50 – 9:00

Welcome

9:00 – 10:00

Plenary Speaker II – Terry A. Osborn, University of South Florida

And what is a social justice approach exactly?

Non-educational Settings

10:00 – 10:30

Thapasya Jayaraj,

Central University of Kerala, India

Swift variation during the pandemic: A cognitive sociolinguistic perspective of semantic adaptations

10:30 – 11:00

Emily E. Davis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands,

Danielle H. Heinrichs, University of Queensland, Australia,  &

Michael M. Kretzer, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany & Rhodes University, South Africa

Always on call: Communicating multilingual public health information through social media in Australia

11:00 – 11:15

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11:15 – 11:45

Suheyla Demirkol Orak,

Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey

Reflections of emergent distance education on English language learning process

11:45 – 12:15

Sviatlana Karpava,

University of Cyprus

Diversity, equity and equality in EFL classrooms: Issues of multilingualism, inclusive teaching, learning, assessment and critical digital literacy development

12:15 – 12:45

Yomna El-Hossary,

Trinity University, Dublin, Ireland

Social media integration and autonomous learning in higher education during COVID-19: An experimental case study on students in Alexandria, Egypt

12:45 – 1:00

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1:00 – 2:00

Plenary Speaker III – Jayoung Song, Pennsylvania State University

Technology for accessibility and diversity in the language classroom: virtual reality, augmented reality, and telecollaboration

Non-educational Settings

2:00 – 2:30

Rania Habib,

Syracuse University

Arabic songs: an affective forum for combating COVID-19 and other insecurities

2:30 – 3:00

Ellen Rachel Perleberg, Grace Elizabeth Dy & Lindsay Hippe,

University of Washington

Queering religious heritage languages in the era of COVID-19: Changes in LGBTQ+ Jewish language at home, abroad, and online

3:00 – 3:15

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Poster Session #2

3:15 – 4:00

1. Reinventing language acquisition in the ESL classroom

Sarah Mengshan Xu, University of Newcastle, Australia

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2. After COVID: Seeking the best of both worlds

Anthony Appleby & Roswita Dressler, University of Calgary, Canada

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3. How emotions influence COVID related code-switching and code-mixing texts on social media

Xinyuan Xia, Syracuse University

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4:00 – 5:00

Plenary Speaker IV – Suzanne Garcia-Mateus, California State University Monterey Bay

Social Media, multimodalities and social justice movements in the bilingual classroom

5:00 – 5:15

Closing Remarks