{"id":64,"date":"2016-09-19T17:24:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/?p=64"},"modified":"2016-09-20T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T09:06:35","slug":"ghent-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/2016\/09\/19\/ghent-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Language testing conference in Lancaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, we welcomed Catherine Verguts from Ghent&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uct.ugent.be\/en\">University Language Centre<\/a>\u00a0to Lancaster University. Catherine attended the (very successful) <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/symposium\/\">language testing conference<\/a> organized by Tineke Brunfaut and Luke Harding (Lancaster&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/\">Language Testing Research Group<\/a>). In addition, we used the opportunity to discuss further details of the Lancaster-Ghent initiative over an extended lunch. In the picture: Luke Harding, Patrick Rebuschat, Vaclav Brezina, Marije Michel, Tineke Brunfaut, Catherine Verguts, Dana Gablasova. We look forward to visiting our partners in Ghent!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"65\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/2016\/09\/19\/ghent-visit\/img_5943\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_5943-e1474305767940.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1474286802&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;3&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_5943\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_5943-e1474305767940.jpg?fit=676%2C507\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-65 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_5943-e1474305767940-1024x768.jpg?resize=676%2C507\" alt=\"IMG_5943\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_5943-e1474305767940.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_5943-e1474305767940.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_5943-e1474305767940.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_5943-e1474305767940.jpg?resize=676%2C507 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_5943-e1474305767940.jpg?w=1352 1352w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_5943-e1474305767940.jpg?w=2028 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, we welcomed Catherine Verguts from Ghent&#8217;s University Language Centre\u00a0to Lancaster University. Catherine attended the (very successful) language testing conference organized by Tineke Brunfaut and Luke Harding (Lancaster&#8217;s\u00a0Language Testing Research Group). In addition, we used the opportunity to discuss further details of the Lancaster-Ghent initiative over an extended lunch. In the picture: Luke Harding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,20,18,8,21],"tags":[23,11,13,14,4,22],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cass-lancaster","category-ghent","category-lael-lancaster","category-lancaster","category-universitair-centrum-voor-talenonderwijs","tag-cass","tag-ghent","tag-lael","tag-lancaster","tag-language-testing","tag-universitair-centrum-voor-talenonderwijs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zIMW-12","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":214,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/2017\/04\/13\/schedule-and-abstracts-for-the-2nd-lancaster-ghent-symposium\/","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":0},"title":"Second Lancaster-Ghent Symposium: Multilingualism","author":"Patrick Rebuschat","date":"April 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The program of the second symposium of the Lancaster-Ghent partnership is now online! 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