Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe 11-13 September 2008 Edited by Martin Edwardes Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe 11-13 September 2008 Edited by Martin Edwardes Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe 11-13 September 2008 Edited by Martin Edwardes Published by Scitsiugnil Press 1 Maiden Road, London, UK And produced in the UK Copyright © 2009 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 2009 (ISBN: 978-0-9559533-1-6) By the British Association for Applied Linguistics Published in book format 2017 ISBN: 978-1-9999369-1-4 ii Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe, 11-13 September 2008 Contents 1 Erik Schleef Meetings Secretary Report 1 2 Muhammad M. Abdel Latif What Do We Mean by Writing Fluency? Proposing a new measure 3 for assessing fluent written language production 3 Yonas Mesfun Asfaha Sources of Pressure in Multilingual Education in Eritrea 5 4 Will Baker Putting the Culture into Intercultural Communication: intercultural 7 awareness 5 Minhee Bang The Corpus and the Stereotype: a research tale 11 & Susan Hunston 6 Huw Bell Measuring the Syntactic Complexity of Embedded Clauses 13 7 Grace Bota Understandings of Gender and Silence in a Ghanaian Community of 15 & Jane Sunderland Practice 8 Dermot F. Campbell, FS ≠ FS (Formulaicity and Prosody) 17 Yi Wang & Ciaran McDonnell 9 Shuchen Chang A Preliminary Categorisation of Techniques of Simplification in 19 ESL/EFL Graded Readers 10 Yu Lin Cheng Measuring Bilingual Proficiency and Grouping Participants: a 21 different approach 11 Chu-yao, Chiu An Investigation of Gender Differences in EFL College Writing 25 12 Jon Clenton Investigating the Construct of Productive Vocabulary: comparing 27 different measures 13 Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo Examining the Discursive Construction of ‘Newmannism’ in British 29 Men’s Magazines’ Problem Pages 14 Kaori Doi An Analysis of Second Language Acquisition by Non-Native 31 Speakers of Japanese 15 Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis Examining the Pragmatic Competence of Greek Cypriot Learners of 33 English in Oral Requests – A comparison with American native speakers 16 Janet Enever Why Applied Linguistics is not Enough. Contemporary early foreign 37 language learning policy in Europe: a critical analysis 17 Frank Farmer Applied Linguistics and the ELT Profession 39 & María Elena Llaven Nucamendi 18 Simon Fraser Beyond the Academic Word List: providing ESP learners with the 41 words they really need iii Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe, 11-13 September 2008 Contents 19 Esther Galliker How to Deal with Linguistic Variation: a conceptual approach to 45 Swiss-German youth talk 20 Sheena Gardner Evaluation across Disciplinary Groups in University Student 47 Writing: the critique genre family as texts and text 21 Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor Book Review Writing at University: applying genre theory to the 51 classroom 22 Svetlana Gorokhova The Decomposition of Idioms during Sentence Production 53 23 Valerie Hobbs Code-Switching in Japanese Language Classrooms 55 24 Susan Hogben Take the Lead: manipulating ambiguity in advertisements for 57 alternative sexual partners 25 Junko Hondo, Converting Learners’ Thinking into Quantitative Data 61 Chieko Kawauchi & Junichi Saito 26 İlknur İstifçi Do Post-Reading Activities Improve the Retention of Vocabulary? 63 27 Meredith Izon Taking Time to Take Measure: linguistic ethnography in youth 65 language and identity research 28 Christina Janik Who is Speaking to Me from this Bottle? Measuring subjectivity in 69 food packaging texts 29 Sanja Čurković Kalebić The Use of Sentence Adverbials in the Written Discourse of L2 71 Students of English: results of an analysis 30 Jia (Joan) Li “I Know the Word Meaning but in Chinese”: the validity and 75 implications of bilingual vocabulary tests 31 Katja Mäntylä Assessing Lexical Awareness: EFL learners and English word- 77 & Ari Huhta formation 32 Ian Nakamura Conversation Analysis for Language Teachers: refining descriptions 79 to facilitate teacher-student talk 33 Hilary Nesi A Multidimensional Analysis of Student Writing across Levels and 81 Disciplines 34 Yupaporn Piriyasilpa Rhetorical Structure in EFL Students’ Online Discussion Postings 85 35 Paul Roberts Communication Strategies in English as a Lingua Franca 89 36 Rema Rossini Favretti Grounding Frame Elements Identification in Corpus Collocational 91 Patterns iv Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe, 11-13 September 2008 Contents 37 Jacek Rysiewicz Measuring aptitude - Polish adaptation of Modern Language 93 Aptitude Test by Carroll and Sapon 38 H. Müge Satar Multimodal Computer Mediated Communication 95 39 Erik Schleef Testing Times for New Citizens: media discourses around 99 citizenship tests in three countries 40 Noëlle Serpollet From ESLO 1 to ESLO 2: Measuring the sociolinguistic variations 103 within two corpora of spoken French 41 Sabina Sica The Role of Mediation in L2 Vocabulary Learning 107 42 James Simpson Language Appropriation and Online Textual Identity 109 43 Massimiliano Spotti Modernist Entry Tickets for Post-Modern Sociolinguistic Realities: 111 the testing of immigrants for admission to the Netherlands 44 Stefanie Stadler Ongoing Communication in International Projects: applying 113 & Helen Spencer-Oatey linguistics to these realities 45 Alison Stewart The Problem of Position: Researching identity in English teachers at 115 Japanese universities 46 Pia Sundqvist Taking a Quantitative Measure of Oral Proficiency in EFL 117 47 Cornelia Tschichold French Vocabulary in encore tricolore: do pupils have a chance? 119 48 Elizabeth Turner Sizing up the Argument: qualitative and quantitative dimensions 121 49 Amy Y-T Wang Vagueness in Interaction: A cross-cultural examination of vagueness 123 in Taiwanese and British courtroom discourse 50 Jill Llewellyn Williams Use it or Lose it: retrieving lost language skills from the dusty 125 corners of memory 51 Jane Woodin Cultural Categorisation: what can we learn from practice? An 127 example from tandem learning 52 Junko Yamashita L1 Influence on the Processing of L2 Collocations: a case of 129 & Nan Jiang Japanese ESL speakers 53 Mami Yoshida Are They Really Thinking-Aloud? Comparison of think-aloud 131 processes between a group-administered session in a language laboratory and an individually conducted session v vi Proceedings of the BAAL Conference 2008 Meetings Secretary Report Eric Schleef reception before dinner on Thursday night, and 1 Multilingual Matters organised a reception on MEETINGS SECRETARY Friday night. The BAAL book prize was announced REPORT before the BAAL Gala dinner on Friday night. Erik Schleef Alastair Pennycook received the prize for his book Global Englishes and transcultural flows published University of Edinburgh by Routledge. The BAAL Gala dinner was followed [email protected] by a very entertaining and successful ceilidh. The conference closed the following day with a tribute The conference theme of BAAL 2008 was “Taking to John Holmes, the last of the three plenaries, and the measure of applied linguistics”. Circa 300 closing remarks by several representatives of delegates attended the conference. Plenary speakers BAAL and Swansea University. were Paul Meara (Swansea University), Ben Rampton (King’s College London), and Alison Papers Submitted and Accepted Wray (Cardiff University). As table 1 and figure 1 show, the number of papers Very many thanks and congratulations to Tess submitted was about the same as in 2006 and has Fitzpatrick and other staff and students at Swansea fallen from last year which saw an unusually high University for a highly successful conference. number of paper submissions. 298 abstracts were Delegate feedback forms and emails abound in submitted to the conference organisers, and 208 comments such as “very friendly and well- were accepted this year. The number of accepted organised conference – inspiring sessions – papers has increased sharply compared to last year excellent – wonderful – amazing – great experience (40%) and is back to the usual 65-75% acceptance – excellent venue – the student helpers were rate. The number of posters has increased. SIG track wonderful – many thanks to all the helpers and submissions have increased, and colloquia organisers – well done LOC!” submissions have fallen. 84% of delegates who filled in forms rated the 2004 2004 2005 2005 2006 2006 2007 2007 2008 2008 presentation facilities ‘good’ and ‘very good’. The Sub. Acc. Sub. Acc. Sub. Acc. Sub. Acc. Sub. Acc. work and friendliness of the local organisers and staff at Swansea University conference services Individual 106 69 146 92 232 141 277 100 197 127 received