{"id":603,"date":"2016-09-12T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/?page_id=603"},"modified":"2021-10-25T23:07:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T23:07:55","slug":"2015-2016-programme-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/programme\/current-2021-2022-programme\/2015-2016-programme-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 – 2016 Programme Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Term 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nTime<\/th>\nRoom<\/th>\nPresenter<\/th>\nTopic<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
3\u00a0May (Tuesday)<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n11:00-12:30<\/strong><\/td>\nCounty South B89<\/strong><\/td>\nTheresa Weiler<\/td>\nTests of lexicogrammar: using expert judgements to investigate their underlying construct<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12 May<\/td>\n12:00-13:30<\/strong><\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nLuke Harding<\/td>\nDiagnostic language assessment: From theory to practice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19\u00a0May<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South B89<\/strong><\/td>\nSahar Alkhelaiwi<\/td>\nAcademic listening demands and difficulties related to cognitive listening processes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a09 June<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nMichael Ratajczak<\/td>\nClearly understood? Comprehension of health-related information produced by the UK\u2019s National Health Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a014 July<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a015:00-16:30<\/td>\nBowland North SR21<\/td>\nKarmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana)<\/td>\nEnglish language proficiency of Year 2 learners in Slovenia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Term 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nTime<\/th>\nRoom<\/th>\nPresenter<\/th>\nTopic<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
14 January<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nTineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding<\/td>\n“We’re going on a bear hunt”: Discovering resources in language testing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21 January<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nDaniel Waller, Tania Horak & Elena Gandini (University of Central Lancashire)<\/td>\nDeveloping evidence-based writing criteria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27 January (Wednesday)<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n12:00-13:00<\/strong><\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nAnne Margaret Smith<\/td>\nIdentifying Specific Learning Differences (e.g. dyslexia) in a multilingual population (joint SLLAT-LTRG session)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 February<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nLuke Harding<\/td>\nListening to an unfamiliar accent \u2013 research plan discussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 February (Wednesday)<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		12:00-13:00<\/strong><\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nAndrea R\u00e9v\u00e9sz (Institute of Education) & Marije Michel<\/td>\nExploring cognitive writing processes, behaviours, and text quality: Combining eye-tracking, key-stroke logging and computer-based text analyses (joint SLLAT-LTRG session)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25 February<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nJamie Dunlea (British Council)<\/td>\nAsking the big questions in Europe: Is it time to take the “E” out of the CEFR?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3 March<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nRicky Jeffrey & Dirk Moosmayer (University of Nottingham Ningbo)<\/td>\nUsing marketing concepts to consider assessment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 March<\/td>\n12:30-13:30<\/strong><\/td>\nCounty South B89<\/strong><\/td>\nJohn Bandman<\/td>\nExperimenting with integrated writing tasks to teach idiom usage: A task repetition study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17 March<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nTineke Brunfaut<\/td>\nInvestigating a new reading item type for the Aptis test<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Term 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nTime<\/th>\nRoom<\/th>\nPresenter<\/th>\nTopic<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
8 Oct<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nCharles Alderson<\/td>\nDiagnosing grammar problems in SFL reading<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 Oct<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nPucheng Wang<\/td>\nInvestigating test-takers’ cognitive processes while completing the TBEM-8 reading-to-write task<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26 Oct (Monday)<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a015:30-17:00<\/strong><\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nTess Fitzpatrick (Cardiff University)<\/td>\nWhat can word association responses really tell us about a person’s mental lexicon?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12 Nov<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nVarious<\/td>\nDry-runs for LTF conference<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26 Nov<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty South C89<\/td>\nAnchana Rukthong<\/td>\nMock viva: Investigating the listening construct of listening-to-summarize tasks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3 Dec<\/td>\n15:00-16:30<\/td>\nCounty Main PC lab A44<\/strong><\/td>\nTineke Brunfaut<\/td>\nILTA bibliography<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9 Dec<\/td>\n9:45-11:45<\/strong><\/td>\nCounty South B89
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Angela Garcia, Judith Fairbairn, Michael Maurer, Olena Rossi<\/td>\nPresentations of MA in Language Testing dissertations on the following topics:<\/p>\n
    \n
  • Aviation English\u00a0test developers and raters’ views on the ICAO language proficiency requirements (Garcia)<\/li>\n
  • How analytic raters adapt to holistic marking (Fairbairn)<\/li>\n
  • A corpus-based study of linguistic features in blog-writing test\u00a0performances (Maurer)<\/li>\n
  • Using the IELTS analytic scale: rating procedures and their influence on rater judgements (Rossi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Term 3 Date Time Room Presenter Topic 3\u00a0May (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\u00a0May 15:00-16:30 County South B89 Sahar Alkhelaiwi Academic listening demands and difficulties related to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"parent":1300,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-603","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/603\/revisions\/605"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ltrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}