Other Language Testing and Assessment (LTA) Events

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ALTAANZ Conference 11-13 November 2025 Balancing innovation and tradition in language assessment.

Conference details

Draft program can be found here:

Keynote speakers:

  • The Tim McNamara Lecture will be delivered by Dr Xiaoming Xi: Reimagining what we measure: How AI is challenging the tradition of language assessment.
  • Professor Luke Harding: Imagined interlocutors and ‘authentic’ chatbots: What can corpus linguistics reveal about constructs in computer-mediated assessment?

Roundtables:

  • Invited roundtable: ‘Assessing oral communication using GenAI’ organised by Haeun (Hannah) Kim, Gary Ockey, Inyoung Na, Gi Jung Kim, Rena Gao, Carsten Roever
  • Roundtable 2: ‘Reconceptualizing the traditional provision of student feedback with AI innovation’ organised by Peter Davidson, Dan Zhao, Barry O’Sullivan
  • Roundtable 3: ‘Airing and sharing: Responses to challenges for English language learner assessment in school policy in Australia, New Zealand, United States and England/UK’ organised by Catherine Hudson, Denise Angelo, Julie Luxton, Sue Creagh, Rosalie Grant, Susy Macqueen

Registration is now open, early bird rate available until 30 September 2025.

To register, please go to: https://www.altaanz.org/altaanz-conference-registration-2025.html

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