LTRG is open to staff members, visiting researchers, PhD and MA students. Staff and students working away from campus can attend the seminars on-line. 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 County South building, room D72 (unless otherwise indicated).
Term 3
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Theresa Weiler | Investigating the construct tested through four item types used to assess lexicogrammatical competence in English as a foreign language |
| 10 May | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Susana Correia (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) | Construction and validation of a placement test for Portuguese as a Foreign Language |
| 17 May | 16:00-17:30 | County South D72 | Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding | EALTA conference dry-runs: 1. Paper-based versus computer-based writing assessment: Investigating equivalence on integrated and independent tasks 2. DIALANG 2.0: Charting a course for revision and expansion of an online diagnostic testing system 3. Computer-based testing of integrated skills: the role of young learners’ working memory and task motivation |
| 24 May | EALTA conference, Bochum, Germany | |||
| 31 May | 15:00-17:00 | County South D72 | All | LTRG writing retreat |
| 7 June | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Bahar Aksu | Foreign accent perception: Measures and challenges |
| 14 June | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Myriam Iliovits | International vs. local tests of English language for university admissions |
| 21 June | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Karmen Pižorn (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) |
An investigation of young EFL learners’ writing scripts |
| 28 June | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Salomé Villa Larenas | Towards change in language assessment literacy development: designing an instrument to assess the LAL of EFL teacher educators |
Term 2
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Feb | 15:00-16:00 | County South D72 | All | Introduction session for new members & sharing research plans/projects |
| 15 Feb | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | All | LTRG writing retreat |
| 1 March | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Oksana Afitska | Learning science through the medium of English language: Addressing linguistic and non-linguistic challenges of EAL learners in primary classrooms |
| 22 March | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | John Pill | Language tests to enter the workplace: Perspectives from stakeholders |
Term 1
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Ying Xu (South China University of Technology, China) | A longitudinal investigation of students’ perceptions and use of automated writing evaluation (AWE) feedback in L2 formative writing assessment: The case of Pigai |
| 19 Oct | 14:00-16:30 | County South D72 | (1) Talia Isaacs (University College London, IoE)
(2) John Read (The University of Auckland, NZ) |
(1) Contemporary debates in language testing: Standards, the native speaker, and the role of our professional association
(2) A fresh look at assessing depth of vocabulary knowledge |
| 2 Nov | 16:00-17:30 | Cavendish Colloquium | John Pill | Score-users’ perspectives on testing occupation-related language skills |
| Wedn 8 Nov | 12:00-13:00 | FASS A010 MR3 | Ana Pellicer-Sanchez (University College London, IoE) | Examining learners’ eye movements during reading in different input modalities (joint LTRG-SLLAT session) |
| 16 Nov | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Ari Huhta (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) | Diagnosing writing and its development in English as a foreign language |
| 24-26 Nov | University of Huddersfield | Language Testing Forum 2017 (http://ukalta.org/call-for-papers-ltf-2017/) | ||
| 30 Nov | 13:00-17:00 | County South D72 | all LTRG members | Writing retreat |
| 7 Dec | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Tineke Brunfaut | ILTA bibliography (please bring your own laptop) |
| Tue 12 Dec | 16:00-17:00 | Bowland North SR10 | Tim McNamara (The University of Melbourne, Australia) | Values, politics, and language assessment: the challenge of English as a Lingua Franca |
| Wedn 13 Dec | 10:00-11:30 | FASS A010 MR3 | MA in Language Testing dissertation talks:
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