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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 April | 15.00-16.30 | County South D72 | Susy Macqueen (Australian National University) | The private and public lives of a test construct: English language testing for citizenship |
| 2 May | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Tineke Brunfaut (organiser) | Reading items workshop (text selection) |
| 9 May | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Tineke Brunfaut (organiser) | Reading items workshop (item design) |
| 16 May | 15:30-17:00 | County South D72 | Tineke Brunfaut (organiser) | Reading items workshop (item moderation 1) |
| 23 May | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Tineke Brunfaut (organiser) | Reading items workshop (item moderation 2) |
| 30 May | University College Dublin, Ireland | EALTA conference (https://www.ucd.ie/alc/ealta2019/) | ||
| 6 June | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | All | EALTA show-and-tell session |
| 13 June | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Myriam Iliovits | Language use in an English medium instruction university in a non-English dominant context: Investigating the validity of international and local English language tests used for admissions |
| 20 June | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | All | Reading task moderation workshop |
| 25 June (Tuesday) | 12:00-13:00 | County South D72 | Noor Asbahan Shahizan | Assessing spoken academic language proficiency: Interactional features in group discussions |
| 28 June (Friday) | 16:00-17:00 | County South D72 | Sisilia Halimi (Universitas Indonesia) | Developing an English proficiency test for teachers |
Term 2
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Jan | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | All | LTRG writing retreat |
| 24 Jan | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | All | LTRG writing retreat |
| 31 Jan | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Noor Asbahan Shahizan | Group Oral Task Review: Expert Judgements |
| 7 Feb | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Jamie Dunlea (British Council) | Working with the China Standards of English |
| 14 Feb | 15:00-16:30 | Bowland North SR20 | Luke Harding & Judit Kormos | Getting published |
| 20 Feb (Wednesday) | 12:00-13:00 | County South C89 | Mary Jane Abrahams (Alberto Hurtado University) | Developing and updating of the Chilean English Teacher Training Standards: Cultural and socio-political contexts and implications (Joint SLLAT/LTRG talk) |
| 21 Feb | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Olena Rossi, Tineke Brunfaut, Luke Harding, Salomé Villa Larenas | Dry runs for LTRC/AAAL Atlanta |
| 28 Feb | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Philip Horne | Re-examining the validation of a holistic speaking scale: the (non-) applicability of pronunciation descriptors |
| 7 March | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | — | No session (LTRC/AAAL Atlanta) |
| 14 March | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | All | Item analysis workshop |
| 21 March | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | All | Item analysis workshop (cont.) |
Term 1
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 11 Sep | 11:00-12:00 | County South C89 | Rod Ellis (Curtin University, Australia) | Measuring implicit and explicit L2 knowledge: Implications for assessing pragmatic knowledge (joint SLLAT-LTRG talk) |
| 11 Oct | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Tineke Brunfaut | Researching the language assessment literacy of Ministry of Education stakeholders in Sri Lanka: piloting an interview guide |
| 18 Oct | 15:00-17:30 | County South D72 | all | Writing retreat |
| Friday 26 Oct | 9.30-11:00 | County South D72 | Tess Fitzpatrick (Swansea University) | The development of pedagogic word lists in Welsh and implications for tests based on frequency paradigms (joint LTRG-SLLAT talk) |
| 1 Nov | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Luke Harding | Developing English as a Lingua Franca assessment tasks |
| 8 Nov | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Tobias Haug (University of Zurich, Switzerland) | Assessing speaking in High German and Swiss German in sign language interpreter training: What are we actually testing? |
| 15 Nov | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Olena Rossi | Using quality review checklists for item moderation |
| 23-25 Nov | University of Bedfordshire | Language Testing Forum 2018 (http://ukalta.org/language-testing-forum/) | ||
| 29 Nov | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Kathrin Eberharter | Rater cognition and the role of personal attributes in rating speaking performances: preliminary results |
| 6 Dec | 15:00-16:30 | County South D72 | Frank Boers (Western University, Canada) | Trial and error on trial: The case of phrasal verbs (joint LTRG-SLLAT talk) |
| 13 Dec | 9:30-11:30 | Bowland North SR26 | Distance MA dissertation talks |
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