Deivis D. Pothin

Today is the last day of the conference and many of the participants are already rushing to the airport to fly back home. I decided to stay and leave on Saturday. I had the chance to listen to the last keynote speaker, Rita Franceschini, from the Free University of Bozen, in Italy. She talked about [...]

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David Barton‘s presentation on multilingual literacy practices on Flickr was very interesting and the crowded room was not disappointed. He showed how multimodal elements are an essential part of new literacy practices, especially by multilingual users of Web 2.0 and Flickr, an online photo (and now video) management and sharing application. David showed the case [...]

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Wednesday is traditionally the “day off” of the AILA conferences but the morning was very well spent at the meeting of the research network on autonomy in language learning. The ReN, as it is called, focused on the links between identity, motivation and autonomy. There were a variety of papers, most of them focusing on [...]

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Tuesday has been so far the greatest moment of this conference for me. The symposium on language learning strategies (LLS) I attended was mediated by Karen Schramm and Rebecca L. Oxford. Rebecca is one of the greatest authorities on LLS and I used mostly her work to support my undergraduate end-of-course dissertation, back in 2003 [...]

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Second day in Essen and Monday was a very busy day with too many presentations to choose from. Sometimes you just wished you could be in more than one place at the same time. One of the presentations I found very interesting was the one presented by Ariovaldo Pereira, a lecturer at the Universidade Estadual [...]

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