Programme 2018

UZRT 2018
University of Zagreb Roundtable: Empirical Studies in Applied Linguistics
Zagreb, Croatia, June 15, 2018

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UZRT 2018
EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Programme

15 June 2018
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ivana Lučića 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

8.30-9.00 REGISTRATION

9.00 Opening

Room A-122 A-123

 

Session 1 Motivation

Chair:  Jasenka Čengić

Testing and assessment

Chair:  Gábor Szabó

9.10-9.30  Ádám Lajtai

 

An exploratory study into Hungarian EFL students’ in-school and out-of-school learning behaviour

 

Gábor Szabó

 

The Application of Objective Measures of Text Difficulty to Language Examination Tasks

9.30-9.50  Višnja Kabalin Borenić

 

Attitudes to English and Motivation to Continue Learning English in a Tertiary Education Setting

 

Zoltán Lukácsi & Borbála Fűköh

 

A truly special examination: A case study of a local exam development project

9.50-10.10 Sandra Mardešić, Ana Gverović & Ana Puljizević

 

Motivation in modern language studies

 

 Alenka Mikulec & Siniša Subotić

 

Students’ difficulty and preferences assessment of L2 language skills

10.10-10.30 Lőcsey Gabriella

 

Comparing motivation of young EFL learners

 

 
10.30-10.50 Discussion Discussion

10.50-11.10  COFFEE BREAK

Room A-122 A-123
Session 2 Corpus-based research

Chair: Renata Geld

Classroom intervention

Chair: Stela Letica Krevelj

11.10-11.30 Vesna Bagarić Medve & Ivana Šarić Šokčević

 

An Investigation of Personal Pronouns in Croatian GFL Learners’ Argumentative Texts

 

Magdolna Lehmann

 

Learner beliefs on project and group work in EAP classes

 

11.30-11.50 Višnja Pavičić Takač & Sanja Vakanjac Ivezić

 

Frame markers and coherence in L2 argumentative essays

 

Mirta Kos Kolobarić  & Ivana Cindrić

Change in feedback practices and its influence on students’ essay-writing skills – an action research

11.50-12.10 Gloria Vickov & Eva Jakupčević

 

Do young learners use discourse markers?

 

Krisztián Simon

 

What I learned from designing modular blended learning language skill development courses

 

12.10-12.30 Vlatka Blagus

 

Croatian-English bilingual children with Special Language Impairment: a case study on morphological and syntactical errors

 

Mirna Trinki & Stela Letica Krevelj

 

Multilingualism in Croatian education: Can we think outside the box?

12.30-12.50 Discussion Discussion

12.50-14.30 LUNCH BREAK

Room A-122 A-123
Session 3 Language teacher education

Chair: Magdolna Lehmann

Other interesting topics

Chair: Višnja Pavičić Takač

 

14.30-14.50 Li Jinyi & Magdolna Lehmann

 

A qualitative study on Hungarian students’ beliefs and perceptions of oral presentation skills

 

Sanja Marinov & Višnja Pavičić Takač

On the nature of relationship between self-regulation and lexical competence

 

14.50-15.10 Viola Kremzer

 

Tell me a story about learning to teach

 

Adrienn Fekete

 

Exploring Hungarian English Majors’ Identity Construction

15.10-15.30 Kornél Farkas

 

Building visions and expectations in language teacher education: A study of Hungarian and Turkish pre-service EFL teachers

 

Loreta Šimunić

 

Cultural elements in English language course books

15.30-15.50 Discussion Discussion

15.50 -16.00 Closing