“I was worried if something bad happened”: How language graduates made decisions around migration in the anxious times of the Covid pandemic.
(2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2023, December). “I was worried if something bad happened”: How language graduates made decisions around migration in the anxious times of the Covid pandemic. Paper presented at International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) 2023, Nicosia, Cyprus
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“I’m going to speak only Spanish” - Imagining communicative competence during study abroad (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2023, May). “I’m going to speak only Spanish” - Imagining communicative competence during study abroad. Paper presented at Imagining and Experiencing Hospitalities in a Mobile World, Edinburgh Napier University
Understanding International Students' Experiences with Assessments through Rich Pictures (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M., & Ratz, S. (2023, April). Understanding International Students' Experiences with Assessments through Rich Pictures. Presented at Sustaining Connections – The Participatory and Intercultural Potential of Digital Learning, Edinburgh Napier University
Migration, mobility, and multilingualism – a critical realist approach to analysing narratives of undergraduate students (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2022, March). Migration, mobility, and multilingualism – a critical realist approach to analysing narratives of undergraduate students. Paper presented at Tourism & Languages Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University
The effects of Brexit and the Coronavirus pandemic on a 'sore thumb' cohort of language students: informing pedagogy through a critical realist perspective (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2021, November). The effects of Brexit and the Coronavirus pandemic on a 'sore thumb' cohort of language students: informing pedagogy through a critical realist perspective. Paper presented at IALIC 2021, Bogota, Columbia
Reflexivity and Multilingualism in a Changing World (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2021, July). Reflexivity and Multilingualism in a Changing World. Paper presented at Negotiating a Changed World, London Metropolitan UniversityAim of the research: To analyse reflexivity and decision-making amongst undergraduate language students Research methods used: This research is based on narrative analysis – I have constructed ten narratives of my participants’ trajectories using d... Read More about Reflexivity and Multilingualism in a Changing World.
Combining narrative research with critical realism: How do language students make decisions? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2021, June). Combining narrative research with critical realism: How do language students make decisions?. Paper presented at Narrative methods in multilingual and educational research, Edinburgh Napier University
"This is what I want today" - A longitudinal study of multilingual development (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2019, June). "This is what I want today" - A longitudinal study of multilingual development. Paper presented at Cross-Sector Annual Conference 2019: Widening Participation in Languages, University of Dundee
Mobility capital and multilingual capital: Starting points of undergraduate language students (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2018, March). Mobility capital and multilingual capital: Starting points of undergraduate language students. Paper presented at 13th Annual Lancaster Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University of Lancaster
"I have many languages in my head": second language identity development of multilingual students (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2017, June). "I have many languages in my head": second language identity development of multilingual students. Paper presented at IALIC conference 2017, Edinburgh Napier University
Vocabulary Learning and the Moodle Glossary Tool (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2015, January). Vocabulary Learning and the Moodle Glossary Tool. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier Teaching and Learning Conference, Edinburgh Napier University
A module-based approach to foster and document the intercultural process before and during the residence abroad (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Penman, C., Ratz, S., & Cebrian, B. (2014, June). A module-based approach to foster and document the intercultural process before and during the residence abroad. Paper presented at IEREST conference: Teaching the intercultural in contexts of student mobility, Bologna, ItalyWith this presentation we are aiming to contribute to the debate on what form of preparation and support can enhance the intercultural student experience during the Year Abroad. This paper will present the Studying and Living Abroad course, a cred... Read More about A module-based approach to foster and document the intercultural process before and during the residence abroad.