Technology, IIdeology and Practicee in Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics University of Edinburgh, 6-8 September 2007 Edited by Martin Edwardes Technology, Ideology and Practice in Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics University of Edinburgh, 6-8 September 2007 Edited by Martin Edwardes Technology, Ideology and Practice in Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics University of Edinburgh, 6-8 September 2007 Edited by Martin Edwardes Published by Scitsiugnil Press 1 Maiden Road, London, UK And produced in the UK Copyright © 2008 Copyright subsists with the individual contributors severally in their own contributions. This publication may be reproduced in part or whole only with acknowledgement of the source. First published in CD-Rom format 2008 (ISBN: 978-0-9559533-0-9) By the British Association for Applied Linguistics Published in book format 2017 ISBN: 978-1-9999369-0-7 ii Technology, Ideology and Practice in Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics University of Edinburgh, 6-8 September 2007 Contents 1 Erik Schleef Meetings Secretary Report 1 2 Transcribed & edited by Part One of the Pit Corder Colloquium, 7th September 2007 3 Keith Mitchell 3 Masumi Azuma Benefits and risks of the effects of mother tongue knowledge on 11 the interpretation of figurative expressions 4 Alex Boulton But Where’s the Proof? The need for empirical evidence for 13 data-driven learning 5 Zofia Chlopek Errors committed by L3 learners – what are they like and what 17 do they tell us? 6 Fei-Yu Chuang & GrammarTalk: international students’ responses to an online 19 Hilary Nesi grammar resource 7 G. Cuadrado Esclapez, META-CITEC: a cognitive semantic database of conceptual 21 MM Duque García, & metaphor in science and technology P. Durán Escribano 8 Maria del Mar Robisco & Speaking Out! Developing, evaluating, and piloting learning 25 Joana Pierce McMahon outcomes 9 Jie K. Dong “Isn’t it enough to be a Chinese speaker”: language ideology 27 and migrant identity construction in a public primary school in Beijing 10 Anita Ferreira Cabrera An Empirical Study of Effective Corrective Feedback Strategies 29 with Implications for Technological Applications in Applied Linguistics 11 Isabel Figueiredo-Silva Conflict of cultures – the beginning of a new awareness 33 12 Saeko Fukushima Do Supportive Moves and Pictographs Mitigate the Request 35 Force? 13 Feng Gao Learning English in Britain: A Journey of Building up the 37 Ideology of ‘Chinese National Identity’ 14 Martin Gill Exclusive boundaries, contested claims: authenticity, language 41 and ideology 15 Amanda Hilmarsson-Dunn & Iceland’s language technology: policy versus practice 43 Ari Páll Kristinsson 16 Turo Hiltunen “It seems reasonable to regard them as a single group”: As- 47 predicative constructions in research articles in four academic disciplines 17 Junko Hondo Before or During? The impact of timing in form-focused 49 intervention 18 Maria Juan-Garau & Context and Learner Attitude in Oral L3 Development: insights 51 Carmen Pérez-Vidal from native and non-native performance after a stay abroad iii Technology, Ideology and Practice in Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics University of Edinburgh, 6-8 September 2007 Contents 19 Mere Kēpa & Fonua: Lands, languages, teaching and learning - Language 55 Linitā Manu‟atu Politics in the „National Diploma in Teaching Early Childhood Education (Pasifika)‟ (A work in progress) 20 Dr Hayat Al-Khatib When Language Talks 61 21 Richard Kiely & ‘Visiting locals’ houses’ and ‘English without noticing’: the 65 Jim Askham nature and potential of informal language development 22 Maria Kogetsidis & Interlanguage Requests in Academic Encounters 67 Helen Woodfield 23 Fabiana M. MacMillan, PhD Practicing Paraphrasing Skills in Online EAP Reading Programs 71 24 Katja Mäntylä Vocabulary in an EFL classroom 77 25 Hilary Nesi The form, meaning and purpose of university level assessed 79 reflective writing 26 Alejandra Recio Emergent literacy across languages: using stories and 81 technology to teach English to three and four year old Spanish children in a foreign language context 27 Hazel E. Sales Stodgy writing in the technical workplace 83 28 Anna Solin Import genres in academia: the academic portfolio as a 87 discourse technology 29 Massimiliano Spotti & Language-ideology based pupils’ identity construction: A case 89 Sjaak Kroon study in a Dutch multicultural primary classroom 30 Satomi Takahashi Exploring Causal Relationships between Individual Differences 93 and Web-Based Language Learning: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach 31 I-Hsin Wu A Comparison of IELTS Preparation Courses: Taiwan and the 95 UK 32 Nadezhda Yakovchuk Identifying Plagiarism in Student Academic Writing 97 33 Guoxing Yu Lexical diversity in speaking and writing performances 99 34 Saad Al-Amri Computer-based vs. Paper-based Testing: Does the test 101 administration mode matter? 35 Karin Aijmer The actuality adverbs in fact, actually, really and indeed- 111 establishing similarities and differences 36 Paul Tench, Spelling in the Mind: phonemic-graphemic correspondence 121 Rhiannon Vaughn Griffiths & hypotheses Ben Clarke 37 Norman Fairclough Global capitalism and change in Higher Education: dialectics of 131 language and practice, technology, ideology iv Proceedings of the BAAL Conference 2007 Meetings Secretary Report Eric Schleef make papers fit the available time slots. The number of 1 posters had fallen. SIG tracks and colloquia remained MEETINGS SECRETARY constant. REPORT There were three proposed colloquia: ‘Urban Classroom Erik Schleef Culture and Interaction’, ‘The Emergence of Corpus University of Edinburgh Sign Language Linguistics’ and ‘UK Linguistic 27/10/07 Ethnography Forum SIG’. There were four SIG Tracks: ‘Assessment’, ‘Corpus Linguistics’, ‘Language BAAL 2007 Edinburgh (6–8 September) Learning and Teaching’, and ‘Multimodality’. The conference theme of BAAL 2007 was ‘Applied th Linguistics Renewed: Technology, Ideology and The Edinburgh Applied Linguistics 50 anniversary Practice’. More than 300 delegates attended the reunion drinks reception took place in the Old College’s conference. The conference marked 40 years of BAAL impressive Playfair Library on Thursday evening. Circa and also 50 years of applied linguistics in Edinburgh. 200 delegates attended the reception, and group photos Plenary speakers were Karin Aijmer (University of were taken of former graduates following speeches by Gothenburg), Richard Johnstone (University of Alan Davies and Ronald Asher. Stirling), and Norman Fairclough (University of Lancaster). Each concentrated on a different conference 40 years of BAAL and 50 years of AL in Edinburgh theme, respectively technology, practice, and ideology. were jointly marked through the Pit Corder Colloquium Friday morning. Participants were encouraged to reflect Very many thanks and congratulations to Alan Davies, on both past and future developments in applied Heather Hewitt, and other staff and students at linguistics. The colloquium consisted of two parts: a Edinburgh University for a highly successful video-conference link with M.A.K. Halliday and conference. Delegate feedback forms and emails abound Ruqaiya Hasan, with questions fielded by Alan Davies, in comments such as ‘a memorable and inspiring John Joseph and Albert Weideman in the first half, and conference – excellent organization – lovely venue – short papers by Diane Larsen-Freeman, Sinfree Makoni, wonderful volunteers’. The Pit Corder Colloquium and Miriam Meyerhoff, Keith Mitchell and Ros Mitchell in its video link with Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan the second. This was followed by a tribute to John in Australia generated the highest praise, e.g. ‘the Pit Sinclair. Corder morning was exceptional: well organised, intelligent content, professionally delivered and The BAAL Gala dinner, followed by a ceilidh, was held managed’. 65% of delegates who filled in feedback at the Our Dynamic Earth visitor attraction Friday forms rated the quality of the sessions, the conference evening. The conference closed the following day with venue and gala dinner ‘very good’, e.g. ‘outstanding and the last of the three plenaries and closing remarks by intelligent presentations', ‘well-equipped venue’, and several representatives of BAAL and Edinburgh ‘the conference dinner venue was an inspired choice’. University. Criticism from feedback forms centred around a perceived scarcity of break time and delays caused by the Bristol-based conference company In Any Event. As usual, BAAL offered scholarships. There were 21 applications for the ten UK Student Scholarships, and 50 applications for the International Scholarship and the Chris Brumfit award; the former went to Julie Byrd Clark (University of Toronto) and the latter to Huamei Han (University of Toronto). 60% of delegates who filled in forms rated the presentation facilities ‘very good’. Most PowerPoint presentations were uploaded into computers in the presentation rooms before the conference. Technicians circulated round the rooms offering help throughout. Over half the delegates rated the programme, and the balance of SIG tracks and colloquia with individual papers ‘very good’. The ratio of track/colloquia