The Sixth Annual Conference of EALTA, Turku, Finland
4th - 7th of June, 2009
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday 4th June
18.00 – 19.30 |
Registration |
19.30 |
Welcome Cocktail Reception |
Friday 5th June
| 09.00 – 09.45 | Keynote Paper: Professor Lyle Bachman, UCLA, United States: Justifying the Uses of Language Assessments Presentation (PDF 446 KB) |
| 09.45 – 10.15 | Pavlos Pavlou & Dina Tsagari: Practices, policies and tensions in
classroom-based assessment Presentation (PDF 584 KB) |
| 10.15 – 10.45 | Barbara Blair & Bente Barsnes: Tensions and synergies related to
classroom assessment Presentation (PDF 372 KB) |
| Coffee break | |
| 11.15 – 11.45 |
Monika Barni, Carla Bagna & Sabrina Machetti: Unconscious
government assessment policy: language tests for immigrant students
in Italian schools Presentation (PDF 212 KB), Paper (PDF 121 KB) |
| 11.45 – 12.15 | de Jong John H.A.L.: Unwarranted claims about CEF alignment of
some international English language tests Presentation (PDF 921 KB) |
| 12.15 – 12.45 | David Newbold: Local institution, global examination, synergies and
tensions in a process of co-certification Presentation (PDF 1,38 MB) |
| Lunch | |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Dimova Slobodanka: Matura’s rocky road to success Presentation (PDF 755 KB) |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Jo Lewkowicz & Elzbieta Zawadowska-Kittel: Developing a new
school-leaving exam of English in Poland: synergies and tensions Presentation (PDF 594 KB) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Marina Gerassimenko: An argument-based approach to the KIMEP
English entrance test validation Presentation (PDF 589 KB) |
| Coffee break | |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Anthony Green & Roger Hawkey: The process of writing items for a
task-based test of reading Presentation (PDF 503 KB) |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Glyn Jones: Lexical cohesion as a predictor of item difficulty Presentation (PDF 201 KB) |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Felianka Kaftandjieva: Flaw & Order: World 1 and World 2 of Item
Difficulty – Synergies and Tensions Presentation (PPS 5,5 MB, without music), Presentation as zip-file for downloading and extraction (5,9 MB, includes music) |
Saturday 6th June
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Evelina D. Galaczi: Quantitative and qualitative methodologies and
the development of rating scales for speaking Presentation (PDF 282 KB) |
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| 09.30 – 10.00 | Raili Hildén & Marja K. Martikainen: Rater feedback on speaking
assessment Presentation (PDF 321 KB) |
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| 10.00 – 10.30 | Nivja de Jong & Jan Hulstijn: Relating ratings of fluency to temporal
and lexical aspects of speech Presentation (PDF 999 KB) |
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| Coffee break | ||
| 11.00 – 11.20 Work-in-progress parallel sessions |
Anne Nebel: Understanding
complexity in writing assessment
tasks: toward a useful analytical
framework Presentation (PDF 195 KB) |
Lucilla Lopriore: Assessing young learners´ progress in a longitudinal study: valuing learners´ perception Presentation (PDF 610 KB) |
| 11.20 – 11.40 Work-in-progress parallel sessions |
Ulle Turk: Standardising the
assessment of writing in English
across nations in the military Presentation (PDF 149 KB) |
Carole Thomas: From tension to
synergy – the Bilkent experience Presentation (PDF 364 KB) |
| 11.40 – 12.00 Work-in-progress parallel sessions |
Rita Green & Carol Spoettl: Going national, standardised and
live in Austria: challenges and
tensions Presentation (PDF 215 KB), Abstract (PDF 15 KB) |
Anders Fikke Johannesen &
Hildegun Lahlum Helnes: Synergies and tensions in
computerized language testing Presentation (PDF 260 KB) |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Poster sessions | |
| Lunch | ||
| 14.00 – 14.45 | Keynote Paper: Professor (emer.) Christer Laurén University of
Vaasa, Finland: Assessing the impact of immersion programmes Paper (PDF 146 KB) |
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| 14.45 – 15.15 | Andrea Abel, Chiara Vettori & Katrin Wisniewski: The influence of
raters’ linguistic background on their interpretation of CEF scales Presentation (PDF 255 KB) |
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Coffee break |
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| 15.45 – 17.15 | EALTA Annual General Meeting | |
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Conference dinner |
Sunday 7th June
| 09.00 – 09.45 | Heidi Salaets & Sarka Timorova: Aptitude for interpreting: assessing
what isn’t there (yet) Presentation (PDF 478 KB) |
| 09.45 – 10.15 | Katja Mäntylä & Ari Huhta: Assessing derivative skills: EFL learners
and English word-formation Presentation (PDF 181 KB) |
| 10.15 – 10.45 | Tineke Brunfaut: The Relative Contribution of Grammar and
Vocabulary to Explaining Reading Test Performance Presentation (PDF 259 KB) |
| Coffee break | |
| 11.15 – 12.45 | Panel discussion Convener: Christine Niakaris Members: Lyle Bachman, Presentation (PDF 888 KB) Neus Figueras, Presentation (PDF 176 KB) Tommy Lagergren, Summary (PDF 83 KB) Jo Lewkowicz, Summary (PDF 16 KB) |
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Symposium Farewell |
Poster presentations
| Inga Arffman | Developing translation work in international reading literacy assessments: Translators'view Poster (PDF 330 KB) |
| Arjen Florijn | Testing grammatical ability Poster (PDF 456 KB) Handout (PDF 2,17 MB) |
| Sandra Hutterli | Tests and standards - harmonising school systems in Switzerland Poster (PDF 1 MB) |
| Zoltán Kiszely and Gábor Szabó | Is My B2 the Same as Your B1? Comparing Language Examinations' Levels Poster (PDF 38 KB) |
| Peter Lenz | Promoting and Assessing Migrants' Language Skills in Switzerland. A Project in the Making Poster (PDF 138 KB) |
| Torsten Schlak | Development and evaluation of a C-test for business German Poster (PDF 205 KB) |
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