Conference database for ARLE - The International Association for Research in L1 Education

IAIMTE 2015: Session overview

Overview of sessions, clustered by theme and format

Keynote Paper session Plenary Round table & Interaction Structured poster session Symposium
Addressing literacy cultures of new technologies (media; texting; multi-modality) Farewell reception (0)
Assessment (3)
  • KUO (Singapore); Ying (Singapore): Improving lexical and syntax use in Chinese composition by implementing Portfolio Assessment: An Action research study in Singapore secondary school context.
  • Sawyer (Australia): Assessment Insiders : Peer and self-assessment in English classrooms in Australia
  • Solheim (Norway); Matre (Norway): Teachers’ dialogues about students’ texts: Developing a shared understanding as a basis for formative assessment
The role of textbooks and encyclopedia (3)
  • Balula (Portugal); Amante (Portugal); Silva (Portugal); Melão (Portugal); Castelo (Portugal): Literary texts included in textbooks of Portuguese and literacies in L1 education
  • Liptakova (Slovakia): Encyclopaedia of language for children of junior school age
  • Matos (Portugal); Silva (Portugal); Melão (Portugal); Amante (Portugal); Castelo (Portugal): Assessment of the impact of the Common Core State Standards on Primary School Textbooks of Portuguese
ICT and Literacy education: Past experience and designing the future (3)
  • Caviglia (Denmark); Delfino (Italy): Dialogic literacy in a participatory culture: some challenges towards emancipatory education
  • Lauridsen (Denmark); Hansen (Denmark): Educational affordances of iPads: How iPads can support first language teaching
  • Lyngfelt (Sweden); Sofkova Hashemi (Sweden): Producing and reading digital texts: patterns of communication in literacy classroom
ICT and Literacy education (3)
  • Kauppinen (Finland): Renewing the aims and the contents of literacy instruction in L1 – coeducation between teacher students of mother tongue and ICT in Finland
  • Marin (France): Learning how to write at kindergarten: Effects of computer using on literacy skills
  • Palmér (Sweden); Ulfgard (Sweden); Blückert (Sweden): Swedish – a subject with the times? Literacy and digitalisation in teaching materials after the 2011 Swedish school reform
Multimodal meaning making and ICT (3)
  • Cheung (Hong Kong); Chan (Hong Kong); Lam (China): Using hypertext and mind-map to enhancing Grade 5 Students’ literacy strategies and self-efficacy in informational text reading in Hong Kong
  • Höglund (Finland); Kaihovirta (Finland); Heilä-Ylikallio (Finland): Multimodal and aesthetic possibilities and positions in future L1 research and education
  • Magnusson (Sweden): Meaning-making from different modes and media
Culturally responsive teaching (3)
  • Aw (Singapore); Fang (Taiwan); Tan (Singapore): Localisation of curricular conceptions and pedagogical practices in Chinese language instruction: A phenomenographic study of PRC teachers in Singapore schools
  • Oja (Finland); Ahonen (Finland); Vaittinen (Finland): Local and global acts of reading multicultural fiction
  • Wong (Hong Kong); Cheung (Hong Kong); Ki (China): Understanding Language Teacher’s Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-efficacy and its Enhancement through Learning Study with Young Chinese Language Learners
Language and culture (3)
  • Knipe (United States); Dalton (United States); Hinshaw (United States): Don’t let the horse in the school!: Indigenous teachers’ perspectives of mother tongue literacies in rural Guatemala
  • ZAID (Morocco); El Kirat El Allame (Morocco): The Place of Culture in the Amazigh Language Textbooks in Morocco
  • zhao (China): Effect of Race-ethnicity, SES, Gender and Schooling on high risk of under-achievement on language development/at risk of poor educational attainment




All themes OPEN SEMINAR FOR SPOUSES (1/2): SCANDINAVIAN CULTURE AND IDENTITY (0) Coffee break and transit to sessions (0) Publication, next conference, and goodbye (0) OPEN SEMINAR FOR SPOUSES (1/2): SCANDINAVIAN CULTURE AND IDENTITY (0) Keynote 3: Languages, literatures, and literacies – a Nordic perspective (1)
  • Smidt (Norway): Languages, literatures and literacies - a Nordic perspective

IAIMTE Business Meeting (0)


Language awareness and language teaching Special interest group meeting: SIG EDUCATIONAL LINGUISTICS (SIG EDULING) (0)
Educational linguistics + bilingualism (3)
  • Rättyä (Finland): The use of visual tools in grammar teaching
  • Svensson (Sweden); Torpsten (Sweden): Working with translanguaging in Swedish classrooms
  • Tummers (Belgium); Deveneyns (Belgium); Speelman (Belgium): L1 varieties in Flemish secondary education: Teachers’ attitudes toward standard and substandard colloquial Belgian Dutch
Multilingual issues (2)
  • Garcia (United States): Teachers’ self perception and attitude of native language use as a foundation for propagating literacy for Spanish speaking children
  • Leung (Hong Kong): Language teachers' perspectives on mother tongue language education in a multilingual post-colonial region
Special needs and early language learning (3)
  • Awramiuk (); Krasowicz - Kupis (Poland): Tools for a diagnosis of early writing abilities
  • Bauquis (Switzerland); Pelgrims (Switzerland): Who has special educational needs to write a text within an inclusive classroom?
  • Pelgrims (Switzerland); Lavoie (Canada); Bauquis (Switzerland): Copy tasks in French speaking elementary schools: Teachers’ conceptions and practices
Language growth in kindergarten (3)
  • Anctil (Canada); Dupin de Saint-André (Canada): Vocabulary in interactive read-aloud sessions in kindergarden: how do teachers help the construction of meaning?
  • Ferraz (Portugal); Pocinho (Portugal); Viana (Portugal): Phonological awareness, letter knowledge and the piagetian tasks in Portuguese preschoolers
  • Ferreira (Portugal); Pocinho (Portugal); Araujo (Portugal): English@Rochinha longitudinal Project in a Portuguese kindergarten: its impact on children, teachers and parents
Notions of literacy (2)
  • Araujo (Portugal): Literacy Practices and Skills and Reading Achievement in EU Countries: The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2011 (PIRLS)
  • Vollmer (Germany): Extended Notions of Subject Literacy
Educational linguistics (3)
  • Ailhaud (France); Jisa (France): How the sentence becomes a planning unit: a developmental study of L1 French children texts
  • Cheung (Hong Kong); Chan (Hong Kong): The use of the observational learning in enhancing Hong Kong Grade 5 students’ Chinese argumentative structuring abilities
  • Maak (Germany): “Where does blood come from?” – An analysis of linguistic characteristics of the input in biology lessons based on a concept-oriented approach
Literacy practices in and out of school (3)
  • Chung (Korea); Kim (Korea): Effects of Home and School Environments and Literacy Resources on Korean Elementary-School Students’ Voluntary Reading Practices
  • Jeong (Korea (The Republic Of)); Kim (Korea); Kim (Korea): The Roles of Parents in Korean Children’s Literacy Practices and Attitudes
  • Min (); Jeong (Korea (The Republic Of)); Kim (Korea); Sohn (Korea); Chung (Korea): A qualitative review on a model of the out-of-school literacy practices of Korean primary school students: effects of parents, teachers, and students’ characteristics



Invited SIG EduLing Symposium: Expanding Dimensions of L1 Metalinguistic Activity (1)
  • Gauvin (Canada); Kerge (Estonia); Feytor Pinto (Portugal); Fontich (Spain): Expanding Dimensions of L1 Metalinguistic Activity
    • Fontich (Spain): Grammar and writing: The role of metalinguistic activity in text revision
    • Auli (Finland); Gauvin (Canada): Pupils’ knowledge of grammar across languages: A learner-centred perspective
    • Auli (Finland); Gauvin (Canada): Using English L2 grammatical knowledge in the learning of French L1: Preliminary results
    • Kerge (Estonia): Literacy and linguistics in the Estonian upper secondary mother tongue education
  • Discussants: Feytor Pinto (Portugal)
  • Literacies (Reading and Writing) Special interest group meeting: SIG ROWRO (0) The Texture of Learning to Write in the Twenty-First Century (1)
    • Brandt (United States): The Texture of Learning to Write in the Twenty-First Century
    Writing in higher education (3)
    • MacArthur (); Traga Philippakos (United States): College Students’ Use and Modification of Planning and Revision Strategies after a Semester of Instruction
    • Molnar (Hungary); Pinter (Hungary): Evaluating the quality of written knowledge based on literature in collaborative, inquiry based blog-supported environment by the SOLO taxonomy
    • Van Vooren (Belgium); Mottart (Belgium): Improving university students' abstracts through revision instruction
    Special needs and literacy (3)
    • Bourdages (Canada); Foucambert (Canada): What is necessary for diagnosing reading problems in Elementary school kids?
    • Lissi (Chile): “READING IS HARD AND NOT FUN”. DEAF ADOLESCENTS’ EXPERIENCES WITH LITERACY.
    • Pocinho (Portugal); Capelo (Portugal): Improving writing skills in deaf children from 2nd grade: an intervention program
    Critical literacy (3)
    • Bergh Nestlog (Sweden): Critical literacy in text and practice
    • Katsarou (Greece); Tsafos (Greece): Studying students’ dialogic practices for developing their critical literacy: a case study
    • Noh (Korea); Ko (Korea (The Republic Of)): Critical literacy: An approach to national identity and literary education
    Writing (3)
    • Atkin (Israel); Amir (Israel): The Yummy Yummy Case in Israel
    • Harjunen (Finland); Pentikäinen (Finland); Hankala (Finland); Kauppinen (Finland); Kulju (Finland); Routarinne (Finland): Writing assignments in the context of learning conceptions: A systematic analysis on Finnish writing studies during 21st century
    • Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the)); Braaksma (Netherlands (the)): Small changes in the instructional setting do work: Differentiation in the Writing curriculum
    Writing processes (3)
    • Coker (United States); MacArthur (); Farley-Ripple (United States); Wen (); Jackson (United States): An Observational Study of the Nature and Variability of First-Grade Writing Instruction in the United States
    • Kim (Korea (The Republic Of)); Min (): Cognitive processes of outline-based writing and its educational implications
    • Pereira (Portugal); Graca (Portugal); Cardoso (Portugal): The development of writing production with «teaching sequences»
    Writing in higher education and professions (3)
    • Byrman (Sweden): Police students’ and police officers’ professional writing literacy
    • Traga Philippakos (United States); MacArthur (): Writing Motivation: Validation of a Measure for College Writers
    • Tummers (Belgium); Deveneyns (Belgium): Levels of aggregation: Identification of sociolinguistic determinants of written L1 proficiency in higher education
    Rethinking the teaching of writing in early education (3)
    • hermansson (Sweden): (Re)thinking Writing Methods as an Event in Swedish Early Childhood Education
    • Kam (China): Comprehensive and Integrated Learning of Chinese Characters for Writing and Reading
    • Sebastião (Portugal): Teacher’s knowledge in and for the teaching of writing: the case of epistolary genre
    Expository and argumentative writing (3)
    • González-Lamas (Spain); Mateos (Spain); Cuevas Fernandez (Spain): Arguing from sources: the impact of two intervention programs to improve the quality of argumentative synthesis
    • Reig Gascon (Spain): Content management in the process of writing expository texts in small groups in a secondary classroom
    • Tengberg (Sweden); Olin-Scheller (Sweden): Identifying and evaluating written argumentation. Effects of a Comprehension Strategy Intervention in 9th Grade Aimed at Improving Students’ Critical Reading.
    Voice in writing (3)
    • Juvonen (Finland): The essay and authorial voice: Analysing interaction in Finnish matriculation essays
    • Krogh (Denmark); Piekut (Denmark): Voice and narrative in L1 writing, 1
    • Piekut (Denmark); Krogh (Denmark): Voice and narrative in L1 writing, part 2
    Writing skills (3)
    • Brinkhaus (Germany): Subcomponents of writing competence: What about lexical abilities?
    • Buyuktas Kara (Turkey); Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the)): Effects of Video Based Peer Observation on Summarizing From Multiple Sources
    • de Maat (Netherlands (the)); Rietdijk (Netherlands (the)): Designing and using lesson plans for teaching writing skills
    Informative texts and language study (3)
    • Mokibelo (Botswana); Mokgwathi (Botswana): Code-switching: a strategy for teaching and learning or a problem?
    • Routarinne (Finland): Something new, something borrowed. How do fifth graders go about composing informative texts?
    • Tamaian (Romania); Pamfil (Romania): Language Study in Romanian School
    Writing (3)
    • Harren (Germany); Berkemeier (Germany): Supporting Visualization and Revision to Improve Expository Writing in 6th Grade Classes
    • Johansson (Sweden): Handwriting and typing: A comparison between written product and writing processes
    • Patmon (United States): The Multiple Faces and Voices of the Heterogeneous Writing Classroom in the U.S.
    Early reading and writing (3)
    • af Geijerstam (Sweden): Vocabulary use in early school writing in Sweden
    • Jablonski (Poland): Links between reading and writing in groups of children at the age of 3-11 – The perspective of Lev S. Vygotsky’s theory of written speech
    • Käsper (Estonia); Uibu (Estonia): Teaching strategies for students’ text comprehension and word semantics acquisition in primary school
    Literacies 1. Chair persons: Gert Rijlaarsdam/Nikolaj F. Elf (2)
    • Borgfeldt (Sweden); Lyngfelt (Sweden): "I drew first then I wrote". Nine-year old students' ideas on their choice of sociosemiotic resources and conceptions of assessment, when creating multimodal texts.
    • Fabrin (Denmark): Student’s reading acts – a performative view of reading strategies
  • Discussants: Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the)); Elf (Denmark)
  • Literacies 2. Chair persons: Ellen Krogh/Anke Piekut (2)
    • Reig Gascon (Spain): Content management in the process of writing expository texts in small groups in a secondary classroom
    • Rietdijk (Netherlands (the)); van Weijen (Netherlands (the)); Janssen (Netherlands (the)); Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the)): Strategy-oriented writing instruction: an intervention study in primary schools
  • Discussants: Piekut (Denmark); Krogh (Denmark)
  • Literacies 1. Chair persons: Gert Rijlaarsdam/Nikolaj F. Elf (2)
    • Batalha (Portugal): Can grammar benefit reading comprehension?
    • Ladegaard (Denmark): Becoming a (multilingual) reader and writer
  • Discussants: Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the)); Elf (Denmark)
  • Literacies 2. Chair persons: Ellen Krogh/Anke Piekut (2)
    • Lindh (Sweden): Pre conference contribution: How can writing support student´s learning processes?
    • Westerlund (Finland): Essayistic elements in the writing in upper secondary school
  • Discussants: Piekut (Denmark); Krogh (Denmark)
  • Literacy 1. Chair persons: Gert Rijlaarsdam/Nikolaj F. Elf (1)
    • Luong (France): A tool to evaluate French grammatical spelling skills for native adults
  • Discussants: Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the)); Elf (Denmark)



  • Intervention studies in observational learning in writing (1)
    • Grenner (Sweden); Sahlén (Sweden); van de Weijer (Sweden); Asker-Árnason (Sweden); Johansson (Sweden); Åkerlund (Sweden): Intervention studies in observational learning in writing
      • Koster (Netherlands (the)); van den Bergh (Netherlands (the)): Observation: A powerful tool for learning-to-write in primary education
      • Grenner (Sweden); van de Weijer (Sweden); Asker-Árnason (Sweden); Johansson (Sweden); Åkerlund (Sweden); Sahlén (Sweden): Observational learning and narrative writing: Improving text quality for children with and without hearing impairment
      • Braaksma (Netherlands (the)); Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the)); van den Bergh (Netherlands (the)): Innovative learning in writing: Observational learning & hypertext writing
  • Discussants: MacArthur ()
  • Strategy focused writing interventions in primary education (1)
    • Rietdijk (Netherlands (the)): Strategy focused writing interventions in primary education
      • Bouwer (Belgium); Koster (Netherlands (the)): Improving writing skills of students in the upper elementary grades: an experimental intervention study
      • Rietdijk (Netherlands (the)); van Weijen (Netherlands (the)); Janssen (Netherlands (the)); Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the)): Strategy-oriented writing instruction: an intervention study in primary schools
      • Arrimada (Spain); Torrance (United Kingdom); Fidalgo (Spain): Exploring the Effects of Metacognitive and Instructional Components of Strategy-Focused Instruction
  • Discussants: MacArthur ()
  • Literature - for children and other readers - and learners' reading choices
    New approaches to literature education (3)
    • Aerila (Finland): Using Multicultural Literature as a Tool for Multicultural Education in Teacher Education
    • Le Cordeur (South Africa): An integrated teaching programme for written composition and literature study through the media
    • Olin-Scheller (Sweden); Nordenstam (Sweden): Easy reading? Literary instruction and literary development in relation to easy reading books for young adults in Sweden
    Reading literature (3)
    • Johansson (Sweden): Literary socialization and literature reception - a comparative study of Swedish and French upper secondary school students’ readings of a literary text
    • McLean Davies (Australia); Doecke (Australia): Intertextuality: writing and reading literature
    • Stokmans (Netherlands (the)); El Aissati (Netherlands (the)): Exploring text and attitude effects in the interpretation of stories
    Literature and reading (3)
    • Kabel (Denmark); Brok (Denmark): Liberating literacies: L1-students’ resources for stance-taking and their strategies for negotiation in lower secondary school
    • Palo (Sweden); Manderstedt (Sweden); Lindberg (Sweden); Nordenstam (Sweden): ‛Sweet sixteen’: role models, initiation and the Self
    • Reissig-Vasile (United States): A Study of collaborative learning in a college literature classroom




    Literature, Fiction, Film and other media Special interest group meeting: SIG RESEARCH ON LITERATURE EDUCATION (SIG ROLE) (0)
    Literature education (3)
    • Calil (Brazil): The genesis of titles in the creation of etiological tales: When creating fictional narratives depends on the newly literate students’ scientific knowledge
    • Nordlund (Sweden): Literary analysis as a tool to support children’s text making in early school years
    • Stokke (Norway): Children’s responses to literature in the classroom seen in the light of Theory of Mind and the concept of mentalization.
    Cross-disciplinary approaches to literature (3)
    • Aerila (Finland); Wikholm (Finland): Using fiction in teaching mathematics in Finland
    • Cheung (Hong Kong); Chan (Hong Kong); Wong (Hong Kong): Alice in the Multicultural-land: The reading/writing and writing/oracy connection to enhance Chinese competence in literature education
    • Tainio (Finland): Classroom discourse and the use of texts as a resource for teaching and learning
    Teaching literary history in a contemporary perspective (2)
    • Janus-Sitarz (Poland): Literary history closer to contemporary reality
    • Lundström (Sweden): Gamifying Shakespeare? The teaching of literature in new media ecology
    The making of literature teachers (3)
    • Leung (China): The efficacy of using digital lecture in language learning contexts
    • McLean Davies (Australia); Doecke (Australia); Sawyer (Australia); Mead (Australia): Investigating literary knowledge in the making of English teachers
    • Witte (Netherlands (the)): In search of excellence in literature teaching: Teacher and student perceptions of the qualities of an excellent literature teacher
    Literature 1. Chairperson: Tanja Janssen (2)
    • Karlsson (Sweden): Reading professionally - what does it mean to become a Professional reader within the academicstudy of literature.
    • Lehndorf (Germany): Attitudes towards literature reception of student teachers in literary study seminars
  • Discussants: Janssen (Netherlands (the))
  • Literature 2. Chair persons: Irene Pieper/Tanja Janssen & Tina Hoegh (2)
    • Johansson (Sweden): Literary socialization and literature reception - a comparative study of Swedish and French upper secondary school students’ readings of a literary text
    • Klementsson (Sweden): Working with literary concepts in youth novels. Upper secondary students deal with symbols in their group discussions.
  • Discussants: Pieper (Germany); Janssen (Netherlands (the)); Høegh (Denmark)
  • Literature 1. Chair person: Irene Pieper (2)
    • Koek (Netherlands (the)); Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the)); Janssen (Netherlands (the)); Hakemulder (Netherlands (the)): Developing a test to assess critical thinking in the literature classroom
    • Thavenius (Sweden): Reading Literature in Teacher Education
  • Discussants: Pieper (Germany)
  • Literature 2. Chair persons: Irene Pieper/Tanja Janssen & Tina Hoegh (2)
    • Kabel (Denmark): Reflexive literacies: L1-students resources for stance-taking in the literature classroom
    • Nadel (Sweden): Reading multicultural fiction with upper secondary students: Shift in perspective and aestethic challenges
  • Discussants: Pieper (Germany); Janssen (Netherlands (the)); Høegh (Denmark)
  • Literature 1. Chairperson: Irene Pieper (1)
    • Schrijvers (Netherlands (the)); Fialho (Netherlands (the)); Janssen (Netherlands (the)): Learning about oneself and others in the literature classroom: An analysis of students’ written learner reports
  • Discussants: Pieper (Germany)
  • Literature 2. Chair persons: Irene Pieper/Tanja Janssen & Tina Hoegh (1)
    • Nilson (Sweden): Literary reading and identity in national examinations
  • Discussants: Pieper (Germany); Janssen (Netherlands (the)); Høegh (Denmark)



  • The Role of Writing in Literature Education. SIG ROLE Invited Symposium (Part 2) (1)
    • Janssen (Netherlands (the)); Pieper (Germany): The Role of Writing in Literature Education. SIG ROLE Invited Symposium (2/2)
      • Elkad-Lehman (Israel); Poyas (Israel): My home and your home: A reading of Kafka
      • Krätzsch (Germany); Pieper (Germany): Reflecting on literary reading via writing: group discussions with students in teacher education
  • Discussants: Doecke (Australia)
  • Symposium on literary history (1/2): Empirical studies in teaching literary history (1)
    • van der Meulen (Netherlands (the)); Brüggemann (Germany); Meier (Germany); Frederking (Germany); Fontich (Spain): Symposium on literary history (1/2): Empirical studies in teaching literary history
      • Fontich (Spain): Addressee in a Writing-to-Learn Process
      • Meier (Germany); Henschel (Germany); Roick (Germany): An experimental study on literary text comprehension. Effects of reader-oriented and text-based tasks
      • Frederking (Germany); Brüggemann (Germany): Literature-historical aspects in classroom discussions dealing with literature. Results of an empirical research project
  • Discussants: Brüggemann (Germany)
  • Symposium on literary history (2/2): Empirical studies in teaching literary history (1)
    • van der Meulen (Netherlands (the)); Farkas (United States); Hirsch (Germany): Symposium on literary history (2/2): Literary-historical competence in education from an empirical and theoretical perspective
      • van der Meulen (Netherlands (the)): Activities of secondary and semi-expert university students during the reading of literary-historical and modern texts: A think-aloud study
      • Hirsch (Germany): The added value of the competence of historical reading for literary-historical education
      • Farkas (United States): Multiple Summaries as an Aid to Reading Literary Texts
  • Discussants: Brüggemann (Germany)
  • Who sings during the lesson? 3 views on the "steering group" (1)
    • Franck (Switzerland); Ronveaux (Switzerland): Who sings during the lesson? 3 views on the "steering group"
      • Franck (Switzerland); Ronveaux (Switzerland): How the steering group varies according to the francophone literary tradition?
      • Wanlin (Switzerland); Laflotte (Switzerland): Steering group effect during first language classroom teaching
      • Murillo (France): Variations of the steering group during the course and during the year: determinants and conditions
  • Discussants: Pereira (Portugal)
  • Text and reader, teacher and student in the literature classroom (1)
    • Skyggebjerg (Denmark); Rørbech (Denmark): Text and reader, teacher and student in the literature classroom
      • Skyggebjerg (Denmark): Choices of texts for literary education
      • Rørbech (Denmark): Literature, Culture and Reader Identities in Literature Classrooms
      • Hetmar (Denmark): Discussions of framing dialogues in literature classroom
  • Discussants: Hetmar (Denmark)
  • Media & Technology Special interest group meeting: PRE-SIG ICT AND LITERACY EDUCATION (0)




    Going Digital: Transitional Literacy Practices in Secondary School Classrooms (1)
    • Nygard (Norway); Husebø (Norway); Igland (Norway): Going Digital: Transitional Literacy Practices in Secondary School Classrooms
      • Igland (Norway): The overarching theoretical and methodological framework of the Response-project
      • Nygard (Norway): The City Centre school
      • Husebø (Norway): The North East School
      • Igland (Norway): The South East School
  • Discussants: Elf (Denmark)
  • Miscellaneous
    Multilingualism and multiculturalism (3)
    • Mokibelo (Botswana): Multilingualism and multiculturalism in the education system and society of Botswana
    • Sano (Japan); Nakajima (Canada): Pre-writing strategy bilingual writers employ: its cross-lingual relationships and the biliteracy development among Japanese-English bilingual students
    • Tretter (Germany): The significance of (bi)literacy for the identity of multilingual adolescents
    Emotions and identity (2)
    • Encinas Sanchez (United Kingdom): Emotions in the mother tongue classroom
    • Lindberg (Sweden); Palo (Sweden); Manderstedt (Sweden): Experiencing and reading virtual spaces through Amor and Eros
    Early literacy (3)
    • Hultin (Sweden); Westman (Sweden): Primary School Children’s Negotiations in Collective Text Production
    • Isler (Switzerland); Ineichen (Switzerland): Everyday talk in Kindergarten classrooms – opportunities to acquire academic language
    • Liberg (Sweden): Narrative imagination and narrative voice in narrative texts written by students in early school years
    Educational linguistics (3)
    • Anctil (Canada); Lefrancois (Canada); Montesinos Gelet (Canada): Teaching syntax with children’s literature to improve writing
    • Batalha (Portugal): Can grammar benefit reading comprehension?
    • Pinsonneault (Canada); Fryer (Canada); Boivin (Canada): The mastery of verb agreement in French and its link to the complexity of Noun Phrases in students’ writing
    Biliteracy + Gender (2)
    • Koçmar Demirci (Turkey); Soğuksu (Turkey): Girls in Between: Becoming a Girl through Masculine Language Use
    • Protassova (); Korneev (Russia): Finnish-Russian Bilinguals Acquiring Biliteracy
    Empathy + Opinion making (2)
    • Norlund (Sweden): Four Ways of Expressing Differences of Opinion inside the Classroom
    • Park (Korea (The Republic Of)): Empathic response style in peer group’s troubles-talk

    Round table and interaction (4)
    • Bobinski (Poland): Film language as a dominant paradigm of the old and new media and the universal tool of shaping cultural literacy
    • Hoem (Norway); Håland (Norway): Disciplinary literacy
    • Koek (Netherlands (the)); Janssen (Netherlands (the)); Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the)): Developing a test to assess critical thinking in the literature classroom
    • van der Meulen (Netherlands (the)): Listening to the oracle. Results from a hybrid Delphi procedure on revitalizing the literary history classroom
  • Discussants: Igland (Norway); Høegh (Denmark)
  • Round table and interaction (4)
    • Doil-Hartmann (Germany): IT-supported Language Learning
    • í Ólavsstovu (Faroe Islands (The)): A didactical approach to Faroese grammar in flipped classroom at sixth grade
    • LIU (France): Poetry: an implicit way to language beginners
    • Niesporek-Szamburska (Poland): From motivation to text-creating competence of 9- and 10-year-olds when writing fairy tales
  • Discussants: Piekut (Denmark); Skyggebjerg (Denmark)
  • Structured poster session (8)
    • Arias-Gundín (Spain): Instruction in revision process: surface revision vs. deep revision
    • Lehndorf (Germany): Attitudes towards literature reception of student teachers in literary study seminars
    • Luong (France): A tool to evaluate French grammatical spelling skills for native adults
    • Nadel (Sweden): Reading multicultural fiction with upper secondary students: Shift in perspective and aestethic challenges
    • Nilson (Sweden): Literary reading and identity in national examinations
    • Poyas (Israel): Self-study and classroom discourse inquiry as tools for comprehending processes in teaching Literature in multi-cultural classrooms
    • Torrance (United Kingdom); López (Spain); Fidalgo (Spain): Comparison of two components of the strategy-focused instruction for improving writing skills
    • Witte (Netherlands (the)): MEMo: Mother tongue Education Monitor
    Structured poster session (7)
    • Arias-Gundín (Spain): How do students of Primary and Secondary Education revise?
    • Karasma (Finland): How did the Finnish language become a school subject?
    • Matthiesen (Denmark): Student-driven imitation in upper secondary school: Revealing traits of reflexive process and rhetorical agency in argumentative texts
    • Mokibelo (Botswana); Mokgwathi (Botswana): Code-switching: a strategy for teaching and learning or a problem?
    • Schmidt (Germany): Fostering film related competences – what is the starting point? An empirical study on students’ informal film knowledge
    • Uusen (Estonia); Puksand (Estonia): Literacy development
    • Westerlund (Finland); Hilli (Finland); Kaihovirta (Finland); Heilä-Ylikallio (Finland); Ekholm (Finland): Stepping into and out of digital spaces - a way of designing new learning environments. (dididi.fi/english)
    The Role of Writing in Literature Education. SIG ROLE Invited Symposium (Part 1) (1)
    • Janssen (Netherlands (the)); Pieper (Germany): The Role of Writing in Literature Education. SIG ROLE Invited Symposium (1/2)
      • Bertschi-Kaufmann (Switzerland); Graber (Switzerland): Adolescent reading and the production of literary judgement
      • Sawyer (Australia): Writing about literature in Australia
      • Schrijvers (Netherlands (the)); Fialho (Netherlands (the)); Janssen (Netherlands (the)): Learning about oneself and others in the literature classroom: An analysis of students’ written learner reports
  • Discussants: Doecke (Australia)
  • SIG SYMPOSIUM: Does pedagogy have any impact on oral and writing competencies (part 1) (1)
    • Neumann (Germany); Harjunen (Finland); Haskel-Shaham (Israel): Does pedagogy have any impact on oral and writing competencies? (1/2)
      • Chimirala (India): Does anticipatory listening impact oral presentation tasks?
      • Haskel-Shaham (Israel): Developing writing skills through online course based on PBL
      • Wilder (United States); Yagelski (United States): Integrating Research, Assessment, and Practice to Improve First-Year College Writing
  • Discussants: Rijlaarsdam (Netherlands (the))
  • SIG SYMPOSIUM: Does pedagogy have any impact on oral and writing competencies (part 2) (1)
    • Neumann (Germany); Harjunen (Finland); Haskel-Shaham (Israel): Does pedagogy have any impact on oral and writing competencies? (2/2)
      • Kouki (Finland); Alisaari (Finland): The concept of voice in learning academic L2 writing by e-mail
      • Grabowski (Germany); Brinkhaus (Germany): What cognitive abilites contribute to writing competence: A research strategy from correlation to intervention
      • Philipp (Switzerland): Do the WRITE THING! Meta-Analytical Evidence for Pedagogical Impacts on Writing Competencies
      • Elhanan-Peled (Israel): The impact of pedagogy on writing
  • Discussants: Yagelski (United States)
  • Oracy (Speaking and Listening)




    Orality and Listening (1)
    • Høegh (Denmark); Adelmann (Sweden); Olsson Jers (Sweden): Symposium on Orality and Listening
      • Adelmann (Sweden): Listening types, listening responses, listening attention, listening strategies and listening assessment
      • Høegh (Denmark): Oral reading and performance as slow reading and communication study
      • Olsson Jers (Sweden): Orality as a part of literacies nexus
  • Discussants: Grünthal (Finland)
  • Plenary

    Welcome reception (0) Coffee break and transit to sessions (0) Registration (0) Lunch break (0) Coffee break and transit to sessions (0) Lunch break (0) Coffee break and transit to sessions (0) Social event: Excursion to Faaborg and conference dinner at Egeskov Castle (0) Coffee break and transit to sessions (0) Lunch break (0) Break and transit to U45 (0) Registration at Room 099 (from the main entrance at Campusvej: take the stairs up, pre-conference site is on your left hand) (0) Welcome and short presentations of all students and their projects (0) Coffee break (0) Coffee break (0) Break (0) Pre-conference dinner in the city of Odense for PhD participants of the Pre-conference (0)


    Professional competences in teaching language and literature Special interest group meeting: SIG TEACHER EDUCATION (0)
    Teacher training and teaching practices (3)
    • Gràcia (Spain); Galván-Bovaira (Spain); Santa Olalla Mariscal (Spain); Vega (Spain); Santos (Spain): Assessing oral language teaching in classroom
    • Prata (Portugal); Festas (Portugal); Damião (Portugal); Ferreira (Portugal): Effects of Inservice Teacher Training on Strategy Instruction in Writing
    • Vaittinen (Finland): Student teachers as researchers: classroom projects and theoretical backgrounds
    Literature education (3)
    • Fontich (Spain): "Why should we work so much on this novel if we are not going to read it ever again?”: Cinema and collaborative interpretation to enhance students’ interpretative skills.
    • McLean Davies (Australia): (Re)reading the nation: investigating literacy policy in the context of the literary turn in English education.
    • Pentikäinen (Finland): Drama as a method in literature and writing education
    Teacher education (3)
    • Gràcia (Spain); Galván-Bovaira (Spain); Jarque (Spain); Cot Verderi (Spain); Subirats (Spain): Initial Teacher Education and management of cultural and linguistic diversity in classroom in Catalonia
    • Grünthal (Finland); Pentikäinen (Finland): Book trailers as reading motivators
    • Vega (Spain); Gràcia (Spain): Collaborative work with teachers to promote changes in their daily practices to improve children's communicative and linguistic skills with intellectual disabilities
    Teacher Research. Chair person: Vibeke Hetmar (2)
    • Aharonian (Israel): Professional Learning for Israeli Literacy Teachers: A Practitioner Narrative Inquiry
    • Illesca (Australia): 3rd person: Representing the everyday work of Australian English teachers in L1 research
  • Discussants: Hetmar (Denmark)
  • Teacher Education. Chair person: Vibeke Hetmar (1)
    • Knipe (United States); Dalton (United States); Hinshaw (United States): Don’t let the horse in the school!: Indigenous teachers’ perspectives of mother tongue literacies in rural Guatemala
  • Discussants: Hetmar (Denmark)



  • L1 educators in dialogic communities: Negotiating the politics of L1 professional learning (2/2) (1)
    • Arregi (Spain); Illesca (Australia); Doecke (Australia); Parr (); Pereira (Portugal); Kirkby (Australia); Faulkner (Australia); Bellis (Australia); Aharonian (Israel); Leung (China); Bulfin (Australia): L1 educators in dialogic Communities (2/2): Negotiating the politics of L1 professional learning
      • Parr (); Bulfin (Australia): Exploring L1 professional learning in dialogic networks: Beyond merely reprising the past
      • Arregi (Spain); Doecke (Australia); Pereira (Portugal): Dialogism as a framework for understanding L1 teachers’ learning in multicultural and multilingual settings
      • Leung (China): From monocultural to multicultural: An expanding knowledge-base required of L1 Chinese teachers in Hong Kong
  • Discussants: Krogh (Denmark); van de Ven (Netherlands (the))
  • Textbooks in mother-tongue teaching
    Sociosemiotic resources for meaning making (3)
    • Borgfeldt (Sweden); Lyngfelt (Sweden): "I drew first then I wrote". Nine-year old students' ideas on their choice of sociosemiotic resources and conceptions of assessment, when creating multimodal texts.
    • Folkeryd (Sweden): Evaluative style in student writing – making one’s voice heard in early school years
    • Godhe (Sweden): Multimodal analysis of texts - the pros and cons




    The L1 school subject: curriculum, disciplinarity, forms of knowledge Keynote 2: L1 reading and writing in a multilingual and technological context in secondary education (1)
    • Cassany i Comas (Spain): L1 reading and writing in a multilingual and technological context in secondary education.
    Policy and curriculum (3)
    • Angelova (Bulgaria): What we have to do with data from International Literacy Studies (PIRLS’2006 and PISA’2009) and from National External Assessment. Achievements of Bulgarian learners in Literacy -L1 Reading
    • Kang (Korea): A Direction of Language Education in Relation to New Education Policy in Korea Emphasizing Character Education
    • Skarstein (Norway): Norwegian L1 education - democratic policy with undemocratic effects?
    Models of L1 in the past and in the future (3)
    • Goodwyn (United Kingdom (The)): Theoretical models of the subject of L1 Englishin England 1988-2014
    • Lepajoe (Estonia); Grünthal (Finland): "Call to teach" of Estonian and Finnish teacher students of mother tongue and literature
    • Penne (Norway); Nergård (Norway): L1, Norwegian – a disappearing subject?
    Critical perspectives on and within L1 (3)
    • Bundsgaard (Denmark); Hansen (Denmark): Danish – Progressive or traditional teaching?
    • Koo (); Kim (Korea): The Study on Korean Education Contents for Critical Reading - Using Characteristics of a Genre, thematically expressed in Newspaper Text
    • Wileczek (Poland); Baranska (Poland); Barczewska (Poland): “School? You go because you have to”. The conceptualization of school in Polish and American Youth Speech: Cognitive and Educational perspectives

    Round table and interaction (2)
    • Ingemansson (Sweden): Historical fiction - Close reading of literature in a didactic context
    • Witte (Netherlands (the)): IMEN revisited: Comparing Mother Tongue Education in pre-academic education (grades 10-12)

    Invited Pre-SIG symposium on ICT and literacy education (1/2) (1)
    • Elf (Denmark); Koutsogiannis (Greece): ICT and literacy education: Past experience and designing the future (1/2)
      • Elf (Denmark); Hanghøj (Denmark); Erixon (Sweden); Skaar (Norway): Media and Technology in L1: A Review of Empirical Research Projects in Scandinavia
      • Erixon (Sweden): Punctuated equilibrium – digital technology in schools’ teaching of the mother tongue (Swedish)
      • Gauvin (Canada); Lemay (Canada): How a multimedia learning platform can support heterogeneous teacher trainees’ French writing proficiency and grammatical knowledge
  • Discussants: Cassany i Comas (Spain)
  • Invited Pre-SIG symposium on ICT and literacy education (2/2) (1)
    • Elf (Denmark); Koutsogiannis (Greece): ICT and literacy education: Past experience and designing the future (2/2)
      • Bremholm (Denmark); Falkesgaard Slot (Denmark); Hansen (Denmark): Student work and student production in the 21st century: Quantitative and qualitative analysis
      • Hautopp (Denmark); Hanghøj (Denmark): Teaching and playing Minecraft in L1 primary education: Framing students’ game literacies in relation to teachers’ curricular goals
      • Koutsogiannis (Greece): Layered simultaneity in using ICT for Teaching Greek as L1
  • Discussants: Cassany i Comas (Spain)
  • L1 educators in dialogic communities: Negotiating the politics of L1 professional learning (1/2) (1)
    • Arregi (Spain); Illesca (Australia); Doecke (Australia); Parr (); Pereira (Portugal); Kirkby (Australia); Faulkner (Australia); Bellis (Australia); Aharonian (Israel); Leung (China); Bulfin (Australia): L1 educators in dialogic communities: Negotiating the politics of L1 professional learning (1/2)
      • Aharonian (Israel): Constructing a dialogical space for the professional learning of Israeli L1 teachers of writing
      • Doecke (Australia): Dialogism as a framework for critical inquiry into language education
      • Faulkner (Australia); Kirkby (Australia): Stories of telling, telling stories: Teachers negotiating the role of storyteller
      • Illesca (Australia): Storytelling, language and the ethics of representation in L1 research
  • Discussants: Krogh (Denmark); van de Ven (Netherlands (the))
  • Using the dialogue for learning Special interest group meeting: SIG DIALOGUE (0)




    SIG Dialogic teaching Symposium: A critical engagement with issues using a case study approach (1)
    • Riga (United Kingdom); Vrikki (United Kingdom); Brindley (United Kingdom); Abedin (United Kingdom): Dialogic teaching in the secondary school: a critical engagement with issues using a case study approach
      • Abedin (United Kingdom); Riga (United Kingdom); Vrikki (United Kingdom): A comparison of discourse characteristics of student-student interaction in secondary school English and RE lessons
      • Vrikki (United Kingdom): Conceptualisations of dialogic teaching by secondary school teachers
      • Riga (United Kingdom): A comparative account of the dialogic teaching strategies enacted by teachers of four secondary school subjects
  • Discussants: Brindley (United Kingdom)