{"id":45,"date":"2014-04-24T13:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2015-12-11T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T11:47:23","slug":"language-testing-forum-2010","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/language-testing-forum-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Testing Forum 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

A collection of papers from the 2010 LTF conference has been published as a Special Issue in the journal Language Assessment Quarterly<\/em> (Vol. 11: 2, 2014): Issues in Language Testing Revisited: Exam Board Perspectives and Future Directions<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

Conference Theme: “30 years of LTF – Issues in Language Testing Revisited”<\/h2>\n

The Language Testing Forum was held in Lancaster on November 19th -21st, 2010<\/strong>. This was the 30th anniversary of the first Language Testing Forum<\/strong>, which gave rise not only to the Language Testing Newsletter, <\/em> which later morphed into the journal Language Testing <\/em> and the newsletter Language Testing Update<\/em>, but also to ELT Documents 111: Issues in Language Testing<\/em>, which Charles Alderson and Arthur Hughes edited and which was eventually published by the British Council in 1981.<\/p>\n

We decided that the theme of the 2010 LTF would be “Issues in Language Testing Revisited <\/em>“<\/strong>, and that the three main issues addressed in 1980, namely General Language Proficiency<\/em>, Testing for Specific Purposes <\/em>and Communicative Language Testing<\/em>, would be revisited in invited presentations. Discussants from academia and from language testing organisations were invited to present a reaction to the relevant account of the 1980 discussions, from the perspective of 30 years on, and to reflect on developments since then (if any).<\/p>\n

We have been given permission by the British Council to produce an electronic copy of the book resulting from the first LTF gathering in 1980:\u00a0Alderson, J. C., & Hughes, A. (1981). Issues in Language Testing. <\/em>ELT Documents 111. <\/em> London: The British Council.<\/p>\n

Downloads are PDF files (Adobe) and the file size is indicated.<\/p>\n

Introduction and Epilogue (5 MB)<\/a><\/p>\n

Section 1: Communicative Language Testing (21 MB)<\/a><\/p>\n

Section 2: Testing English for Specific Purposes (23 MB)<\/a><\/p>\n

Section 3: General Language Proficiency (26 MB)<\/a><\/p>\n

A review of Issues in Language Testing<\/em> can be found in the journal Language Learning:
\nRea, P.M. (1984). Review Essay. Language Learning<\/em>, 34(3), 175-188.<\/p>\n

\"Participants<\/a>

Participants at the Language Testing Forum 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

Programme<\/h2>\n

View the\u00a0Final conference programme<\/a><\/p>\n

Organising Committee<\/h2>\n

Charles Alderson<\/a><\/p>\n

Tineke Brunfaut <\/a><\/p>\n

Dianne Wall<\/a><\/p>\n

Conference Location<\/h2>\n

Lancaster University, Bailrigg Conference Centre.<\/p>\n

Sponsorship<\/h2>\n

We thank the generous\u00a0contributions from the following testing organisations:<\/p>\n

Pearson Language Tests<\/a>, to subsidise the cost of dinner on Friday evening,<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Trinity College London<\/a>, to subsidise the cost of\u00a0dinner on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A collection of papers from the 2010 LTF conference has been published as a Special Issue in the journal Language Assessment Quarterly (Vol. 11: 2, 2014): Issues in Language Testing Revisited: Exam Board Perspectives and Future Directions Conference Theme: “30 years of LTF – Issues in Language Testing Revisited” The Language Testing Forum was held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}