Term 3
| Date | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May | C89 | Margarita Calderon & Jaime Valladares | Language testing in Chile |
| Tuesday (!) 7 May |
Bowland North SR3 | Tess Fitzpatrick (Cardiff University) | The challenge of validation: Assessing the performance of a test of productive vocabulary |
| 16 May | C89 | Doris Froetscher | A national exam’s washback on reading assessment in the secondary classroom |
| 23 May | C89 | Luke Harding | Investigating the construct underlying the CEFR phonological control scale |
| 13 June | C89 | Sahar Alkhelaiwi | Needs analyses: academic listening needs in a Specific Purpose Target Language Use Situation |
| 20 June | C89 | Anchana Rukthong | Investigating integrated listening-writing and listening-speaking tasks: pilot study results |
| Wednesday (!) 26 June |
C89 | Riikka Ullakonoja (University of Jyväskylä) | Intervention study on EFL extensive reading and vocabulary learning strategies in Finland and future directions |
| 4 July | Bowland North SR3 | Karmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana) | The European Indicator of Language Competence in Slovenia and its implications |
Term 2
| Week | Date | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 January | C89 | Tineke Brunfaut and Luke Harding | Item moderation of A2-level reading items |
| 2 | 24 January | C89 | Tineke Brunfaut and Luke Harding | Familiarisation with the CEFR listening scales (Workshop) |
| 3 | 31 January | C89 | – | Note: No session this week |
| 4 | 7 February | C89 | – | Note: No session this week |
| 5 | 14 February | Bowland North SR17 | Gareth McCray | Cognitive processing in reading comprehension |
| 6 | 21 February | C89 | Bimali Indrarathne and Hasantha Munasinghe | Language testing in Sri Lanka |
| 7 | 28 February | C89 | Aaron Batty | The effect of nonverbal cues in video-mediated tests of foreign language listening comprehension: A research proposal |
| 8 | *Monday 4 March 4pm |
Furness LT 3 | Talia Isaacs (Bristol University) | Comprehensibility in L2 speaking scales Note: This will be a joint session with the SLLAT group |
| 9 | 14 March | C89 | Costas Gabrielatos and Judit Kormos | Corpus-based analysis of oral test transcripts: A case study of conditional constructions. |
| 10 | 21 March | C89 | Daniel Waller (UCLan) | Analysing lexical consistency in UCLan’s English Language Examinations |
Term 1
| Week | Date | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 October | SR 16 | Doris Froetscher | Analysing classroom reading test tasks to investigate washback from a national exam |
| 2 | 18 October | SR 16 | Luke Harding | Accent, intelligibility and L2 pronunciation assessment |
| 3 | 25 October | SR 16 | Theresa Weiler | Exploring Language in Use across languages |
| 4 | 1 November | SR 16 | Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding | Item moderation |
| 5 | 8 November | SR 16 | Zahra Al-Lawati | Investigating the characteristics of test specifications and item writer guidelines, and their effect on item development |
| 6 | 15 November | Frankland Colloquium Room, Faraday building | Angela Hasselgreen | Classroom assessment of writing of Young Learners |
| 7 | 22 November | County South, Meeting room 7, C89 | Lauren Barrows | Using what item writers know about test items to improve the test development process: research design |
| 8 | 28 November* Wednesday, 3.30-5pm |
SR 20 | Andrea Revesz, Marije Michel, Roger Gilabert | Measuring cognitive task demands using dual task methodology, subjective self-ratings, time estimation, and stimulated recall |
| 9 | 6 December | County South, C89 | Karen Dunn | TBC |
| 10 | 13 December* 2-3.30pm |
SR 6 | Judit Kormos | Workshop on assessing dyslexic language learners |