18th EALTA conference – 3-5 June 2022, Budapest – Evolving contexts: flexibility and adaptation in language testing and assessment

Full conference program (PDF)

Pre-Conference workshops

Title	Workshop leader
Advanced language test analysis using IRT in R	Giang Pham
Applying the test development cycle to create test tasks for your teaching context: From theory to practice	John Pill
Qualitative data analysis	Mehdi Riazi

SIG Meetings

EALTA SIG CEFR

Title	Presenter
CEFR in the loop of automated Essay scoring development for writing	Vincent Folny, Rodrigo Wilkens, Thomas Francois (France International, UCLouvain)
“Can you still hear me? Navigating the choppy waters of teaching, learning and assessment during a pandemic andstaying on course by virtue of the CEFR”	Kathryn Brennan (INTO Queen’s University Belfast, N I.)
Holistic rating scales for the assessment of mediation	Cristina Rodriguez (EOI Santiago, Spain)
Replicating the original research: preliminary results	Glyn Jones (Freelance)
The integrative testing and evaluation of phonological, listening and speaking skills in accordance with CEFR Companion Volume descriptors	Irina Yu. Pavlovskaya, Sergey A. Rasskazov (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
Implementing a CEFR-informed assessment in a teacher-training program at a North Macedonian University Accompanying Paper	Anzela Nikolovska, Zorica Trajkova Strezovska, Biljana Naumoska Sarakinska and Mira Bekar (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia)
CEFR Companion Volume Toolbox – Questions on the CEFR CompanionVolume arising from the VITbox Project	Johann Fischer, Barbara Sawicka, Laurent Rouveyrol, Julia Zabala (VITBox ECML project team)
Aligning Language Educationwith the CEFR: A Handbook	Neus Figueras, Barry O’Sullivan (EALTA, British Council)

Main Conference

Keynotes

The future is now: Emerging technology trends that are shaping digital learning
Geoff Stead

This is a test! 10 checks on transparency in language testing research
Paula Winke

Presentations

Title	Presenter
New approaches to L2 listening assessment:Listening-to-speak tests	Anna Nunan
Tracing item writers’ evolving assessment literacy and item writing skills over time: an evaluation project	Doris Moser-Froetscher, Eva Konrad, Florian Stampfer and Benjamin Kremmel
Test takers‘ perception of a new digital high stakes test for admission purposes	Sonja Zimmermann
Addressee-specificity as an evaluation criterion or an evolving independent construct? On the quest of identifying the make-up of Teacher Language Competence	Olivia Rütti-Joy
Exploring cultures of feedback practices to academic writing in China and the UK Higher Education from teachers’ perspectives	Lulu Zhang
Adjustment of rating practices to improve assessment quality of academic integrated writing	Valeriia Koval, Ximena Delgado Osorio, Claudia Harsch, Johannes Hartig
What counts in grading: Mapping pre service teachers´ grading literacy	Ali Yildirim, Anne Dragemark Oscarson, Birgitta Fröjdendahl, Raili Hilden, Maria Proitsaki Stjernkvist
Statistics is good if it is good statistics	Norman Verhelst, Zoltán Lukacsi, Martina Hulešová

Poster Sessions

Title	Presenter
iKMPLUS English Assessment from system monitoring to individual feedback	Eva Konrad, Andrea Kulmhofer-Bommer, Anita Gläserer, Benjamin Kremmel, Doris Moser Frötscher & Elisa Guggenbichler
What can we learn from test-takers’ perceptions of online language examinations?	Krisztina Babos, Szilvia Dömők, Szilvia Gróf, Júlia Kissné Adorján, Magdolna Lehmann, Zoltán Lukácsi, Róbert Märcz and Zsuzsanna Soproni