Programme

UZRT 2014
EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS
16 May 2014

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ivana Lučića 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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PROGRAMME (ver. May 8)

8.30-8.55: REGISTRATION

9.00: Opening

Room A-122 A-123
Session 1
Teacher education and training
Chair: Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović
Assessment issues
Chair: Sanja Čurković-Kalebić
9.10-9.30 Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović
Seeing is believing: Role of video recordings in raising student-teachers’ self-awareness
Marianne Nikolov & Gábor Szabó
Developing a framework to assess students’ foreign language proficiency in 6th and 8th grades in CLIL programmes
9.30-9.50 Nataša Pavičević
Foreign language teaching anxiety among student teachers of EFL
Istvan Thekes
Presentation of a diagnostic vocabulary test for young learners
9.50-10.10 Mónika Fodor, Magdolna Lehmann & Réka Lugossy
Findings from a CLIL course for university faculty
Ildikó Lukácsi-Berkovics
Measuring HSL proficiency in the Hungarian-Chinese Dual Language School
10.10-10.30 Zrinka Fišer & Dino Dumančić
How do I ‘ujnumbel’ this? : A Study of EFL teachers’ competences and preferences in teaching students with dyslexia
Zoltán Lukácsi
Progress monitoring in business English at the Budapest Business School
10.30-10.45 Discussion Discussion

10.45-11.00  COFFEE BREAK

Room A-122 A-123
Session 2 Motivational aspects
Chair: Valentina Šarac Lekić
Linguistic aspects
Chair: Nadia Mifka Profozić
11.00-11.20 Tea Glavaš
The self-concept related dimension of motivation in intensive adult EFL learning setting
Akasha Ghaboosi
Six years of UPRT research papers: A corpus linguistics analysis 
11.20-11.40 Valentina Šarac Lekić
Measuring motivation of EFL teachers
Csilla Keresztes
Recent changes in the national languages of medicine 
11.40-12.00 Kata Csizér, Katalin Piniel & Edit H. Kontra
The foreign language learning motivation of Deaf students: The results of a cluster analysis
Nadia Mifka Profozić
Speech act of disagreement in English language teaching course books 
12.00-12.20 Kornél Farkas
“The most demotivating language teacher ever” – A qualitative study on EFL learners’ beliefs
Sanja Čurković Kalebić
On the use of Intensifiers in the spoken discourse of L2 students of English
12.20-12.35 Discussion Discussion

12.35-14.00 LUNCH BREAK

Room A-122 A-123
Session 3 Perceptions and attitudes
Chair: Stela Letica-Krevelj
Classroom processes
Chair: Renata Geld
14.00-14.20 Stela Letica Krevelj
Pscyhotypological beliefs: the role of language typology and language contact 
Lucilla Lopriore
Investigating learners’ progression in time 
14.20-14.40 Adrienn Fekete
Hungarian students’ attitudes towards native and non-native English varieties in listening comprehension tests 
Sharon Ahlquist
`You learn more when it’s fun!´ Storyline and the young language learner 
14.40-15.00 Krisztina Szőcs
Language teachers’ perception and classroom practices regarding language learning autonomy in a Hungarian secondary school 
Krisztián Simon
To e or not to e? Students’ e-learning needs and habits at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Pécs
15.00-15.15 Discussion Discussion

 15.15-15.30  COFFEE BREAK

Room A-122 A-123
Session 4 Skills
Chair: Lovorka Zergollern-Miletić
Intercultural aspects
Chair: Tihana Bagić
15.30-15.50 Júlia Kovács
Achieving coherence in Japanese EFL students’ argumentative writing 
Tihana Bagić
Intercultural and linguistic competence 
15.50-16.10 Mate Pleić  & József Horváth
Original copy and other oxymorons: The Zagreb — Pécs project re-reloaded 
Judit Dombi & Zsófia Turányi
Whales migrate, and so did the Pilgrims and the Simpa tribe in Africa  –  The influence  of  cultural  knowledge on the test-taking strategy choice of 13-and 14-year old Hungarian learners of EFL 
16.10-16.30 Magdalena Franjčec & Nives Vujasić
Perception of words in noise: L1 vs. L2 
 Discussion
16.30-16.45 Discussion

16.45 -17.00 Closing