Paper and symposium paper presentations 1 (from Berry to Fox et al.) are here.
Paper
and symposium paper presentations 2 ((from Hamp-Lyons to Leung & Teasdale)
are here.
Paper
and symposium paper presentations 3 (from Lewkowicz to North) are here. here.
Paper
and symposium paper presentations 4 (from Peirce to Turner & Upshur) are
here. here.
Poster presentations 1 (from Cascallar to Kenyon) are here.
Poster
presentations 2 (from Pavlou to Wylie) are here.
Work-in-progress presentations 1 (from Absalom & Brice to Hasselgren) are
here.
Work-in-progress
presentations 1 (from Huhta to Rivera & Malone) are here.
Roundtables are here.
10.00
Opening words by Prof. Matti Parjanen, Vice Rector of the University
of Tampere, and Prof. Viljo Kohonen, Chair of the local organising committee
10.20 - 12.30 COLLOQUIUM
Developments in Language Testing in Europe
Chair: Viljo Kohonen
Discussants: Sauli Takala
Presenters:
John
Trim: A Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning and
Teaching
Brian North: The Development of a Common Framework Scale of
Descriptors of Language Proficiency Based on a Theory of Measurement
Rolf
Schärer: Developing Learner Portfolios
Michael Milanovic, Nick Saville and
Lynda Taylor: A user's guide for examiners prepared by the members of ALTE with
reference to the Common European Framework
12.30 Lunch break
PAPER SESSION 1 Chair: Charles Alderson
13.30
Alan Davies: Theory, Research and Practice in Language Testing:
Another Case of Fear and Loathing?
14.00
Brian Lynch and Liz Hamp-Lyons:
Positivistic versus Alternative Perspectives on Validity within the
LTRC
14.30
Andrew Cohen: Towards Enhancing Verbal Reports as Source of
Insights on Test-Taking Strategies
15.00 Coffee break
PAPER SESSION 2 Chair: Charlene Rivera
15.30
Antony Kunnan: Connecting Fairness and Validation in
Assessment
16.00
Carol Lynn Moder and Gene B. Halleck: Resistance vs.
Accommodation: Sociolinguistic and Sociopolitical Factors in Performance
Testing
16.30
Bonny Norton Peirce and Gail Stewart: Culturally Fair
Task-based Assessment: The Challenge of Diversity
17.00 Break
17.30 - 19.00
Tampere sight-seeing tour by bus hosted by the City of
Tampere
(buses leave: Rosendahl 17.30; tour ends at the University Main
Building)
19.30 - 21.30
Reception and get-together hosted by the University of
Tampere and the University of Jyväskylä. Welcome by Prof. Olavi Borg and Prof.
Krista Varantola, Vice Rectors of the University of Tampere (Kalevantie 4,
University Main Building)
9.00
Alan Davies: Migrant Gatekeeping Through English Proficiency: Is
Efficiency Replacing Equity?
9.30
John de Jong and Fellyanka Stoyanova:
Discrimination Parameters and Test Dimensionality
10.00
Tim McNamara and
R.J.Adams: Item Bundling: New Approaches to the Analysis of Task-related Test
Items in Performance
Assessments
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 CONCURRENT SYMPOSIUMS
A) Portfolio Assessment
Chair: Margo Gottlieb
Discussants: Elana Shohamy and Viljo
Kohonen
Presentations:
1) Liz Hamp-Lyons: Uncovering Problems with
Portfolio Assessment in the ESL Context
2) Margo Gottlieb: A Peek into
Portfolio Practices
3) Pirjo Pollari: Could Portfolio Assessment Empower EFL
Learners? Portfolios in EFL Teaching in Finnish Upper Secondary School
4) Sue
Anne Spath Hirschmann and Ana Traversa: When a Portfolio Program Adopts the
Portfolio
B) Diagnostic Language Testing: The Use of Rule Space Methodology
Chair: Lawrence T. Frase
Discussants: J. Charles Alderson and Micheline
Chalhoub-Deville
Presentations:
1) Kumi Tatsuoka: Introduction to Rule
Space Methodology
2) Gary Buck and Kumi Tatsuoka: Towards the Building of
Theory: Developing a List of Attributes Underlying Performance on a Free
Response Listening Comprehension Test
3) Hisami Saito and Masahiro Kasai: An
Application of the Rule Space Approach to Provide New Interpretations of
Individual Performance Differences on TOEFL
4) Gary Buck, Kumi Tatsuoka and
Irene Kostin: The TOEIC Linguistic and Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment Project:
An Application of the Rule Space Methodology to Large Scale Diagnostic
Assessment
13.00 Lunch break (Exhibitions 13.00 - 18.00)
PAPER SESSION 4 Chair: Caroline Clapham
14.00
Jo Lewkowicz: Authentic for Whom? Does Test Authenticity Really
Matter?
14.30
Janna Fox, Bruno Zumbo and Timothy A. Pychyl: An
Investigation of Background Knowledge in the Assessment of Language
Proficiency
15.00
Lynda Taylor and Alastair Pollitt: The Reading Process
and Reading Assessment
15.30 Coffee break
16.15 - 18.15 POSTER PREVIEW & PRESENTATIONS
1) Marijke Cascallar: Development and Validation of the Modified Oral
Proficiency Interview (MOPI): Impact on Adult Language Training and Job
Assignments
2) April Ginther and Leslie Grant: The Influence of Proficiency,
Language Background, and Topic in the Production of Grammatical Form and Error
on the TWE
3) Gene B. Halleck and Carol Lynn Moder: Performance Testing of
International Teaching Assistants: The Role of the Assessor
4) Liz
Hamp-Lyons: Ethical Test Preparation Practice: The Case of the TOEFL
5) Joan
Jamieson and Carol Taylor: Aiming at Access: Development of a Tutorial for a
Computer-based Language Test
6) Dorry Kenyon: Further Research on the
Efficacy of Rater Self-Training
7) Dorry Kenyon: Linking Performance on a
Multiple-Choice Reading Test to Verbally-Defined Proficiency Levels
8) Pavlos
Pavlou: Do Different Speech Interactions in an Oral Proficiency Test Yield
Different Kinds of Language?
9) Mirja Tarnanen, Tommi Salmela, Anu Halvari
and Ari Huhta: The Comparison of Different Levels and Languages in a Criterion
Referenced Testing System
10) Carol Taylor and Irwin Kirsch: TOEFL 2000
Project Update, 1996
11) Ingrid Wijgh: On How Efficient a Test of Oral
Interaction Ability Can Be
12) Elaine Wylie: Test and Non-Test Assessment for
the Professional Second Language User
19.00 ILTA Annual Business Meeting
9.00
Erna van Hest: Self-repair as a Measure of L2 Proficiency
9.30
Carolyn Turner and John A. Upshur: Scale Development Factors as
Facets of Method
10.00
Vivien Berry: Ethical Considerations When
Assessing Oral Proficiency in Pairs
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 - 13.00 WORK-IN-PROGRESS PREVIEW & PRESENTATIONS
1) Doug Absalom and Alejandro Brice: Sharpening our Pragmatic Instruments:
Additive Assessment in ESL
2) Micheline Chalhoub-Deville: Proficiency-based
and Diagnostic Computer Adaptive Testing: Development Issues
3) Carol
Chapelle and John Read: Toward a Framework for Vocabulary Assessment
4)
Patricia Dunkel: Computer-Adaptive Testing of Second/Foreign Language Listening
Comprehension: Issues to Consider When Constructing and Calibrating Multi-Media
Item Banks
5) Mirja Tarnanen, Tommi Salmela and Sauli Takala: Testing
Vocabulary: How Much Does the Method Affect the Scores and Grades?
6) Angela
Hasselgren: The Development and Trialling of CR Tests of Spoken English in
Norwegian Secondary Schools
7) Ari Huhta: Variability vs. Generalizability of
Speaking Proficiency across Different Test Tasks
8) Valmar Kokkota, Hele Pärn
and Leeni Simm: Development of the Test of Estonian Language for Naturalization
Purposes
9) Jose Lai: Self-Assessment as a Meta-cognitive Strategy in
Managing Self-directed Language Learning
10) Sari Luoma: Analysing the
Language Samples Elicited in a Tape-mediated and a Face-to-face Test of
Speaking
11) Charlene Rivera and Margaret E. Malone: Assessing Native Speaker
Language Development in Bilingual Education Programs: The Spanish Language
Assessment - Oral
13.00 Lunch break
PAPER SESSION 6 Chair: Gary Buck
14.00
Constant Leung and Alex Teasdale: What Do Teachers Mean by Speaking
and Listening? A Contextualised Study of Assessment. in Multicultural Classrooms
in the English National Curriculum
14.30
Christine Jensen, Christa Hansen
and Samuel B. Green: An Investigation of Item Difficulty Incorporating Structure
of Listening Tests: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling Analysis
15.00
Steven
Ross and John Langille: Negotiated Discourse and Interlanguage Accent Effects on
a Second Language Listening Test
15.30 Coffee break
PAPER SESSION 7 Chair: Elaine Wylie
16.00
Charles Stansfield: Description and Analysis of Tests for the
Cerfication of Court Interpreters in the USA
16.30
Daniel Reed and Gene
B. Halleck: Probing Above the Ceiling in Oral Interviews: What's Up There?
17.00 Break
18.30 - 22.00 Short cruise and Banquet (Viikinsaari Island)
10.00 Coffee break
PAPER SESSION 8 Chair: Charles Stansfield
10.30
Kathryn Hill: Who Should Be the Judge? The Use of NNS Raters in the
Testing of English as an International Language
11.00
Tom Lumley and
Annie Brown: Interlocutor Variability in Specific-Purpose Language Performance
Tests
11.30 - 12.30 CONCURRENT ROUNDTABLES
A) Technology for Language Assessment and Learning
Chair: Lawrence T. Frase
Participants: Jared Bernstein, Jill Burstein,
Carol Chapelle, April Ginther, and Judith Klavans
B) Factors Involved in Speaking Proficiency Testing: Cognitive, Linguistic and Statistical Perspectives
Chair: Eduardo Cascallar
Participants: Marijke Cascallar (and others)
12.30 - 13.00 Summary and Closing words