LTRG is open to staff members, visiting researchers, PhD and MA students. Staff and students working away from campus can attend the seminars online. Please contact Tineke Brunfaut (t.brunfaut ‘at’ lancaster.ac.uk), Luke Harding (l.harding ‘at’ lancaster.ac.uk) or John Pill (j.pill ‘at’ lancaster.ac.uk) for details.
LTRG usually meets on Thursdays, from 15:00 to 16:30, in the Bowland North building, room C89.
However, for Term 3, because of the university’s remote operating model due to the Covid-19 outbreak, all sessions are online using Teams – keeping to the same day and time (unless otherwise indicated).
Term 3
Co-ordinators: John Pill, Myriam Iliovits
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 April | 15.00-16.30 | Online – Teams | Keith Menary | To what extent can teachers’ language assessment literacy help to understand the impact of learning-oriented assessment in language classrooms? |
| 30 April | 15:00-16:30 | Online – Teams | Olena Rossi | Towards authenticity in testing listening: Can item writers be trained to produce authentic-sounding listening texts? |
| 14 May | 14:00-15:30 | Online – Teams | Mary Jane Abrahams (Alberto Hurtado University) & Salomé Villa Larenas (Alberto Hurtado University) | Research fund proposal: The impact of the National English Diagnostic Test of Initial Teacher Education on the EFL teacher education programmes in Chile. |
| 28 May | 15:00-16:30 | Online – Teams | OPEN HOUSE for postgraduate research students at UK universities studying language testing and assessment related topics – an opportunity for sharing and networking Click to sign up (by 26 May) |
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| 4 June | 15:00-16:30 | Online – Teams | Spiros Papageorgiou (Educational Testing Service) | Mapping test scores to proficiency levels and frameworks: Implications for score interpretation and use |
| 11 June | 14:00-15:30 | Online – Teams | Merve Demiralp (University of Bristol & Pearson) | The C-test as a Second Language Proficiency Estimate and Screening Test in Turkish: An Argument-based Validation Study |
| 18 June | 15:00-16:30 | Online – Teams | Camilo Ramos Galvez | Reviewing the literature: The diagnosis of reading in a second or foreign language |
| 25 June | 15:00-16:30 | Online – Teams | John Bandman | Repeating integrated listening-to-write tasks: comparative statistical analyses of the effect on ESL students’ written performances |
Term 2
Coordinators: Tineke Brunfaut, Santi Lestari
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 January | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North C89 | Olena Rossi | ILTA bibliography |
| 23 January | 15:00-16:00 | Charles Carter A18 | Pascual Pérez-Paredes (Universidad de Murcia & RSLE University of Cambridge) | Internal validity in learner corpus research (UCREL seminar) |
| 5 February (Wedn) | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North SR02 | Meg Malone (AELRC & Georgetown University) | Developing C-tests for research purposes: Cross-language development and innovations |
| 13 February | 11:00-12:00 | Bowland North C89 | Shungo Suzuki | Textmapping |
| 19 February (Wedn) | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North C89 | Salomé Villa Larenas | Mock viva: An investigation of the language assessment literacy of teacher educators in Chile: Knowledge, practices, learning, beliefs, and context |
| 27 February | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North SR10 | Danijela Trenkic (The University of York) | Pursuing university education in a foreign language: how difficult could it be? (Joint LTRG-SLLAT session) |
| 12 March | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North SR89 | John Bandman | An investigation of the effects of task repetition and feedback on written performance on an integrated listening-to-write task by ESL university students |
Term 1
Co-ordinators: Luke Harding, Olena Rossi, Salomé Villa Larenas
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 October | 15.00-16.30 | Bowland North C89 | All | Introductions and research updates (speed presentations) |
| 17 October | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North C89 | Franz Holzknecht | Mock viva: Double play in listening assessment |
| 24 October | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North C89 | All | Writing retreat |
| 31 October | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North C89 | Santi Lestari | Collecting expert judgements |
| 7 November | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North C89 | John Pill | Review and discussion of speaking scales |
| 14 November | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North C89 | Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding | Developing speaking tasks (I) |
| 21 November | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North C89 | Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding | Developing speaking tasks (II) |
| 11 December | 11:00-12:00 | Management School Lecture Theatre 5 | Kazuya Saito (UCL) | How Does Having a Good Ear Promote Successful L2 Speech Acquisition? |