Term 3
| Date | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2014 [Monday] |
Marcus Merriman lecture theatre | Nivja de Jong | Production and perception of L2 fluency [Joint talk with SLLAT group] |
| 29 April 2014 [Tuesday] |
Bowland North SR23 10am |
Catherine van Beuningen | Explaining age-related differences in native speaker listening comprehension [Joint talk with SLLAT group] |
| 8 May 2014 | C89 | — | No session |
| 15 May 2014 | C89 | Zahra Al Lawati | Mock-viva: An investigation of the Characteristics of Language Test Specifications and Item Writer Guidelines, and their Effect on Item Development |
| 19 May 2014 [Monday] |
Bowland North SR10 3:30pm |
John Read | The role of post-entry language assessment in English-medium universities [Joint talk with SLLAT group] |
| 20 May 2014 [Tuesday] |
C89 10am |
John Read; Tineke Brunfaut & Gareth McCray |
The potential of vocabulary measures in informing proficiency; Modelling reading item difficulty |
| 29 May 2014 | C89 | — | Reading week |
| 5 June 2014 | C89 | — | No session: LTRC conference |
| 12 June 2014 | County Main PC lab A044 | Tineke Brunfaut | Language testing bibliography |
| 19 June 2014 | C89 | Sharon McCulloch | Mock-viva: Critical engagement with source material in ESL postgraduate reading to write |
| 26 June 2014 | Bowland North SR05 | Pucheng Wang | Possibility of combining keystroke logging, eye tracking and stimulated recall to explore test takers’ reading-to-write processes |
Term 2
| Week | Date | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 15 January | Bowland North SR21 | Tamara Rakic (Psychology dept, LU) | The role of language and accents in social psychology (Joint LTRG & SSLAT meeting) |
| 2 | Thurs 23 January | County South C89 |
Pucheng Wang | Some issues in refining the construct of reading-to-write tasks: a discussion |
| 3 | Thurs 30 January | Engineering LT3 | Karmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) | Doing classroom research (Joint LTRG & SLLAT meeting) |
| 4 | Tue 4 February | Charles Carter A15 | Karmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) | Assessing young learners |
| 5 | 13 February | County South C89 |
Tineke Brunfaut | Validating a marking grid: rating written performances |
| 7 | Thurs 27 February | County South C89 |
Sahar Alkhelaiwi | English linguistics and literature studies: discourse analysis of a spoken corpus |
| 8 | Thurs 6 March | Faraday A036 | Sam Kirkham | Workshop: Analysing spoken performances with Praat |
| 10 | Wed 19 March | Bowland North SR6 | Henrik Gyllstad (Lund University, Sweden) | The significance of vocabulary size and the validation of a vocabulary size test (Joint LTRG & SLLAT meeting) |
Term 1
| Week | Date | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 5 September | C89 | Meg Malone | The current state of foreign language assessment in the United States |
| — | 20 September | SR10 Bowland North |
Xiangdong Gu | A longitudinal case study of the washback of the National College English Test on teachers’ teaching processes and behaviours: Classroom observation |
| 1 | 10 October [4:15pm start] |
C89 | Luke Harding | New member introductions + brief updates on research projects |
| 2 | 17 October | C89 | Glyn Jones | CEFR: Originating research and potential replication |
| 3 | 24 October | C89 | Gareth McCray | Mock-viva |
| 4 | 31 October | C89 | ||
| 5 | 7 November | C89 | Gareth McCray | LTF presentation practice “Assessing inter-rater reliability for nominal judgement variables” |
| 6 | 14 November | C89 | — | READING WEEK |
| 7 | 21 November | Faraday A205 | Luke Harding & Tineke Brunfaut | Reviewing the EALTA website |
| 8 | 28 November | C89 | ||
| 9 | 5 December | C89 | Charles Alderson, Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding | Toward a theory of diagnosis in second and foreign language assessment [Joint talk with SLLAT research group] |
| 10 | 12 December | C89 | Benjamin Kremmel | Explaining Variance in Reading Test Performance through Linguistic Knowledge |