Conveners
Mixed media & ELT approaches
- Dirk Delabastita
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Asseline Sel (Universite de Namur)12/12/25, 4:00 PM
Because of their potential to confer “prestige, gravitas, and humanist principles to emerging platforms” (Sullivan 2022, 163; see also Bührle 2018, 8), Shakespeare and his plays are prime targets for new media keen on legitimizing themselves, especially in the face of criticism. It is hardly surprising, then, that online performances of Shakespeare’s plays appeared from the early days of video...
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Sonali Kulkarni (Tilburg University)12/12/25, 4:30 PM
This paper departs from the premise that any understanding of literature across the lifespan must account for the ubiquitous practice of readers returning to the books they have already read. While empirical studies on rereading remain scarce, anecdotal and observational evidence suggest that people voluntarily revisit books read in the past (Beckett, 2009; Falconer, 2009; Waller, 2019). In...
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Dan Henry Gonzales (Ateneo de Manila University)12/12/25, 5:00 PM
This presentation examines how the Philippine government memoranda issued during Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency (2016–2022) conceptualize basic education through metaphor. Drawing on Saussurean semiotics, the study treats policy language as a system of signs that reveals deeper cultural meanings. The focus is on directives from the Ministry of Education and related agencies, with attention to...
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Dr Songul Dogan Ger (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)12/12/25, 5:30 PM
Over the past decades, globalisation and increased mobility have led to extensive interaction among diverse languages and cultures. As the development of social and cultural contacts in intercultural or multicultural contexts has accelerated, there has been growing recognition of the need to integrate culture teaching and intercultural communicative competence (ICC) into foreign language...
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