On 26-27 November 2021, the Language Testing Research Group from Lancaster University hosted the LTF 2021 online. The theme of the conference was Language Assessment and (Applied) Linguistics. The Language Testing Forum (LTF) is the annual conference of the United Kingdom Association for Language Testing and Assessment (UKALTA).
A pre-conference online workshop was given by Dr Dana Gablasova and Dr Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster University) on corpus approaches to creating wordlist, using the #LancsBox tool.
Prof Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) delivered the opening lecture “What can language assessment learn from learner corpora? The case of pragmatic macrostructures in L2 speech”.
The conference featured parallel presentation strands on the themes of items and item writing, EAP/ESP contexts, technological innovations, interfaces in applied linguistics, new methods & new constructs, teachers assessment literacy and classroom assessment, raters and decision-making, and validity and automated scoring. It also included an invited panel on the future of language constructs.
The full conference programme can be found here.