Language Testing Forum 2023

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LTF 2023 will be hosted by the British Council’s Assessment Research Group (ARG) in Stratford, London, from 24-26^th November 2023.

This year’s conference will shine a spotlight on the growing recognition of the importance of understanding multilingual contexts. The main theme of the conference is multilingualism and the impact on language assessment theory, practice and policy, with the following sub-themes:

• UK languages and language diversity in the context of the UK
• Translanguaging and the implications for assessment
• Language assessment for entry to work and education in a multilingual world
• The languages of schooling and the role of language in the assessment of content subjects
• Assessment in English Medium Education / Instruction contexts
• The design and validation of multilingual assessments
• The intersection between language assessment, language policy, and multilingualism

The conference will open on the evening of Friday 24 November with the Cyril J. Weir lecture, with keynote speaker Professor Monika Schmid, from the University of York. The topic of Professor Schmid’s talk is to be confirmed soon.

Monika S. Schmid is Head of Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, UK. She obtained her PhD in English Linguistics in 2000 from the Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf. The topic of her thesis was First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance: the case of German Jews in Anglophone Countries. She has since held positions at VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands), the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and the University of Essex (UK). Her work has focused on various aspects of first and second language attrition. She has published two monographs and edited several collected volumes and special issues of journals on this topic, most recently the Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition (2019), alongside over 50 research articles. She has received funding from a range of sources, including the German Research Council (DFG), the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) and the UK Economics and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC) for her work. Website: https:/languageattrition.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/languageattrition