Term 3
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May (Tuesday) | 11:00-12:30 | County South B89 | Theresa Weiler | Tests of lexicogrammar: using expert judgements to investigate their underlying construct |
| 12 May | 12:00-13:30 | County South C89 | Luke Harding | Diagnostic language assessment: From theory to practice |
| 19 May | 15:00-16:30 | County South B89 | Sahar Alkhelaiwi | Academic listening demands and difficulties related to cognitive listening processes |
| 9 June | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Michael Ratajczak | Clearly understood? Comprehension of health-related information produced by the UK’s National Health Service |
| 14 July | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North SR21 | Karmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana) | English language proficiency of Year 2 learners in Slovenia |
Term 2
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 January | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding | “We’re going on a bear hunt”: Discovering resources in language testing |
| 21 January | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Daniel Waller, Tania Horak & Elena Gandini (University of Central Lancashire) | Developing evidence-based writing criteria |
| 27 January (Wednesday) | 12:00-13:00 | County South C89 | Anne Margaret Smith | Identifying Specific Learning Differences (e.g. dyslexia) in a multilingual population (joint SLLAT-LTRG session) |
| 4 February | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Luke Harding | Listening to an unfamiliar accent – research plan discussion |
| 10 February (Wednesday) |
12:00-13:00 | County South C89 | Andrea Révész (Institute of Education) & Marije Michel | Exploring cognitive writing processes, behaviours, and text quality: Combining eye-tracking, key-stroke logging and computer-based text analyses (joint SLLAT-LTRG session) |
| 25 February | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Jamie Dunlea (British Council) | Asking the big questions in Europe: Is it time to take the “E” out of the CEFR? |
| 3 March | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Ricky Jeffrey & Dirk Moosmayer (University of Nottingham Ningbo) | Using marketing concepts to consider assessment |
| 10 March | 12:30-13:30 | County South B89 | John Bandman | Experimenting with integrated writing tasks to teach idiom usage: A task repetition study |
| 17 March | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Tineke Brunfaut | Investigating a new reading item type for the Aptis test |
Term 1
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Charles Alderson | Diagnosing grammar problems in SFL reading |
| 15 Oct | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Pucheng Wang | Investigating test-takers’ cognitive processes while completing the TBEM-8 reading-to-write task |
| 26 Oct (Monday) | 15:30-17:00 | County South C89 | Tess Fitzpatrick (Cardiff University) | What can word association responses really tell us about a person’s mental lexicon? |
| 12 Nov | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Various | Dry-runs for LTF conference |
| 26 Nov | 15:00-16:30 | County South C89 | Anchana Rukthong | Mock viva: Investigating the listening construct of listening-to-summarize tasks |
| 3 Dec | 15:00-16:30 | County Main PC lab A44 | Tineke Brunfaut | ILTA bibliography |
| 9 Dec | 9:45-11:45 | County South B89 |
Angela Garcia, Judith Fairbairn, Michael Maurer, Olena Rossi | Presentations of MA in Language Testing dissertations on the following topics:
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