Call for Nominations: UCLES/ILTA Lifetime Achievement Award

The selection committee, on behalf of the International Language Testing Association (ILTA) and the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), is pleased to invite nominations for the UCLES/ILTA Lifetime Achievement Award. ILTA members are invited to nominate individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of language testing.

If the committee finds a qualified candidate, the award will be presented at LTRC 2010, to be held in Cambridge, UK, in April 2010.

Purpose of the award:
To acknowledge distinguished service and/or scholarship in the field of Language Testing.

The award:
An award of £500 and a framed certificate to be awarded at the annual LTRC.

The language tester so honoured will be invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the LTRC at which the award is presented.

Criteria for the award:
The recipient is selected according to evidence of the following kinds:

·         Extensive, inspirational academic and professional leadership in the field of Language Testing

·         Valuable research and scholarship in Language Testing         

·         Mentoring of students and/or young scholars into the field of Language Testing

·         Active engagement in the practice of developing and using language tests

·         Being an active* member of the Language Testing community currently or recently (i.e., within the last 10 years)

Nominating procedure:

Please send nominations to Charles Alderson, chair of the committee, by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Do not hit REPLY as it may embarrass you and the nominee.

Include with your nomination a brief  description of the person’s contributions to the field and provide a rationale for nominating him or her. Supply the nominee’s contact information, especially the email address, and if the nominee has an informative personal webpage, give the URL.

 The deadline for nominations is four weeks after this call is posted, that is OCTOBER 30, 2009.

Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee:
Charles Alderson, Chair ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Carolyn Turner,
Nick Saville,
Sarah Briggs

*Posthumous award

The award can be granted posthumously, that is to candidates who have died since the last award was made.

Past awardees are

2008 Charles Alderson, Lancaster University, UK
2007 Charles Stansfield, Second Language Testing, Inc.
2006 John Clark, Defense Language Institute (Retired) 
2005 Bernard Spolsky, Bar Ilan University
2004 Lyle Bachman, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
2003 Alan Davies, University of Edinburgh