LTF 2016
LTF 2016 was hosted by Reading University, for the first time in ten years. This LTF event was the first official conference of UKALTA. The theme was Assessing Languages in Higher Education.
The introductory talk on the Friday evening took an innovative format, with Professor Barry O’Sullivan in conversation with Sir David Bell, University of Reading Vice Chancellor. They spoke on the topic of “The place of language testing in the modern university: issues of learning, assessment and level”.
LTF 2016 Presentations
- Chris Smith: Introducing learning-oriented assessment principles to a pre-sessional EAP course
- Mikako Nishikawa: Test-takers’ cognitive processes during integrated writing tasks which use multiple texts and graphs as prompts: preliminary findings
- Emma Bruce: Writing from sources in EAP assessment: A coding scheme for references
- Sahar Alkhelaiwi & Tineke Brunfaut: Informing EAP listening assessment: Students’ processing and strategy needs during lecture listening
- Richard Spiby: Academic reading with longer texts: assessing reading styles with substance
- Parvaneh Tavakoli, Fumiyo Nakatsuhara & Ann-Marie Hunter: Fluency constructs measured in speaking tests: Implications for semi-direct EAP speaking tests
- Edit Ficzere-Willcox: Assessing the pragmatic competence of EAP students at B2-C2 levels
- Maxine Gillway: The evolution of a pre-sessional assessment task in theory and in practice
- Ricardo De La Garza Cano & Ying Zheng: EAP assessments: A study to track test-takers’ progression
- Liz Hamp-Lyons: Unanswered questions for assessing writing in HE. What should be assessed and how?
- Vivien Berry, Fumiyo Nakatsuhara, Chihiro Inoue & Evelina Galaczi: Interpreting scores obtained from a technology-based and face-to-face EAP speaking test
- Nuzhat Jafari: The construct(s) measured by productive tests of lexical gain in EAP contexts
- John Field: A profile of the academic listener
- Kerry Tavakoli & Dawn Cremonese: Re-visiting EAP assessment criteria: the Golden Gate Bridge metaphor
- Sathena Chan & Cyril Weir: Comparing the cognitive validity of a computer-based and paper-based EAP writing test
- John De Jong & Veronica Benigno: The CEFR in higher education: developing descriptors of academic English
LTF 2016 Poster presentations
- Tony Clark: The intensive IELTS preparation process in China, Japan and the UK
- Victoria Clarke & Gwendydd Caudwell: Examining the washback of an EAP test
- Saraswati Dawadi: The educational and social impacts of the SLC English test
- Mardiana Idris & Abdul Halim Abdul Raof: Modest ESL learners’ rating behaviour during self-assessment and peer-assessment practice>
- Takeshi Kamijo: L2 learners’ academic reading strategies for IELTS: Applying think-aloud protocols
- Suh Keong Kwon: The impact of the visual cues on listening comprehension process and performance: An eye-tracking study
- Mina Patel: Operational literacies: Exploring the possibility of testing academic speaking remotely>
- Olena Rossi & Sheryl Cooke: Exploring assessment literacy of Chinese EAP teachers preparing students for UK study
- Martin Seviour: Designing EAP assessment which supports learning
- Jeanine Treffers-Daller: The development of a bilingual English-Malay vocabulary test
- Yun Wang: Explaining second language listening comprehension: A study of adult Chinese learners of English