CALL for pROPOSALS aLTAANZ 2016

 
We welcome proposals related to the conference theme

“In the classroom and beyond: Assessing language ability in different contexts”

 Areas of particular interest are:

•Classroom-based assessment: issues and practice
•Assessment for learning in language classrooms
•Development and validation of diagnostic language assessment tasks
•Assessment for the learning of indigenous languages
•Language assessment of indigenous learners
•Assessing language for academic purposes
•Assessing language for professional purposes
•Second language proficiency models and implications for developing assessment tasks
•Technology and language assessment
•Expanding existing, and creating new, validity frameworks for language assessment
•Standardised tests: development, implementation and/or use by institutional stakeholders
•Language assessment policy and practice: ethics and accountability
•Research methodology for exploring language assessment
 
Proposals can be for papers, posters, work in progress presentations, or symposia. We welcome proposals that focus on classroom assessment practice as well as those which report on more formal research and development projects.

Submissions closed 29 April 2016.