Term 3
| Week | Date | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 April | – | NO SESSION | |
| 2 | 2 May (Wednesday) 3:30 – 5pm |
SR10 | Judit Kormos & Costas Gabrielatos (Joint session with SLLAT) | Corpus-based analysis of the use of the present continuous construction in oral language proficiency exams |
| 3 | 10 May | SR4 | Tania Horak | Washback and washforward? Why study washback – based on a study of the (former) Skills for Life ESOL exams in England. |
| 4 | 17 May | SR4 | Theresa Weiler | Qualitative research in construct validation: Combining expert judgements and intro-/retrospection by test takers |
| 5 | 24 May | SR4 | Gareth McCray | Validity in reading comprehension items: triangulation of eye-tracking and stimulated recall data |
| 6 | 31 May | – | READING WEEK – NO SESSION | |
| 7 | 7 June | SR4 | Kamran Khan | Life in the UK – A journey to citizenship: Approaches to the citizenship test |
| 8 | 14 June | SR4 | Anchana Rukthong | A review of research on integrated test tasks |
| 9 | 21 June | SR4 | TBA | MA TEFL/TESOL work-in-progress presentations |
| 10 | 28 June | SR4 | Tineke & Luke | TBA |
Term 2
| Week | Date | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 Jan | Library B017 | Various | Introductions and research plans for 2012 |
| 2 | 26 Jan | BN SR21 | Zahra Al-Lawati | The use of the case study method in a language testing PhD |
| 3 | 2 Feb | BN SR2 | Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding | The use of visuals in listening tasks (discussion session) |
| 4 | 9 Feb | BN SR5 | Karen Dunn | Factor analysis and SEM: starting out and troubleshooting |
| 5 | 16 Feb | BN SR21 | — | — |
| 6 | 23 Feb | READING WEEK | ||
| 7 | 1 Mar | BN SR15 | Luke Harding | The challenge of English as an International Language for language testing |
| 8 | 8 Mar | BN SR21 | Gareth McCray | Multilevel IRT in the explanation of cross-national and cross-linguistic DIF in reading comprehension in the PISA 2009 study |
| 9 | 15 Mar | BN SR15 | Charles Alderson & Tineke Brunfaut | Components of reading in first and second language, test item difficulty and overall reading ability |
| 10 | 22 Mar | BN SR15 | — | — |
Term 1
| Week | Date | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 Oct | 22 | Luke Harding | Defining the language assessment literacy gap: Evidence from a parliamentary enquiry |
| 2 | 18 Oct | 25 | Charles Alderson | Towards a theory of diagnosis |
| 4 | 1 Nov | 25 | Tineke Brunfaut and Andrea Révész |
Judging the necessary information in listening items |
| 5 | 8 Nov | 12 | Tineke Brunfaut and Andrea Révész |
Judging the necessary information in listening items (Part 2) |
| 7 | 22 Nov | Lancaster House |
Whole group | Surprise party! |
| 8 | 29 Nov | 12 | Gareth McCray | Eye-tracking as a research tool in reading comprehension |
| 9 | 6 Dec | 16 | Karen Dunn | Explaining item difficulty with random item IRT models: An example using vocabulary test data |