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Keynote Speakers

professor Chris Davison

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Professor Chris Davison is Professor of Education and Head, School of Education, UNSW Australia, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. She has worked in tertiary teacher education for over 30 years, and before that, as an ESL teacher and consultant in adult and tertiary settings, secondary schools and English language centres. Chris has published extensively on ESL development, language and content curriculum, and English language assessment,including in TESOL Quarterly, Language Testing and Language Assessment Quarterly.  She is a series editor for Springer’s new series on English language education and also editor and contributor to a two volume handbook on teaching English internationally (with Jim Cummins).  She has undertaken large-scale curriculum and assessment projects in Hong Kong, Singapore and in Brunei, and is currently leading the research and development of a teacher-based assessment framework for EAL learners in Victorian schools, funded by the Department of Education and Early Childhood (DEECD), the Catholic Education office and Independent Schools Victoria. She is a past president of the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) and has received a number of awards for her contribution to the profession, most recently an award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education from the Australian College of Educators (ACE) in 2012.

professor Micheline Chalhoub-deville

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Micheline Chalhoub-Deville (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is Professor of Educational Research Methodology and Co-Director of the Coalition for Diverse Language Communities at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG).  Professor Chalhoub-Deville has been awarded the 2000 Outstanding Young Scholar Award by the Educational Testing Service—TOEFL Program and the UNCG 2013 School of Education Outstanding Senior Scholar Award, both of which recognize her contributions to the field of language testing and assessment.  Professor Chalhoub-Deville has also received the 1998 Best Article Award from the International Language Testing Association. 

Professor Chalhoub-Deville is the editor/co-editor of two books:  Issues in Computer Adaptive Testing of Reading Proficiency (Cambridge University Press) and Inference and Generalizability in Applied Linguistics: Multiple Research Perspectives (John Benjamins Publishing Company).  Her scholarship also appears in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Language Testing, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Annals, Language Learning and Technology.  In 2006, Professor Chalhoub-Deville co-authored a chapter for Educational Measurement, a compendium of critical articles from across the measurement field that is published every fifteen years.  In 2011, she was the co-editor of the Language Testing, 28(3) Special Issue—Standards-based Assessment in the United States.  Professor Chalhoub-Deville has been the lead developer of foreign language proficiency-based and ELL accountability assessment batteries.   

Professor Chalhoub-Deville has been a keynote/plenary speaker at a number of conferences and meetings, including meetings in Australia, Korea, Lebanon, UAE, UK, and the U.S.A.  In 2013, she was invited by the American University of Cairo, Egypt as the Distinguished Visiting Professor to give a series of talks, workshops and consultations with various departments on campus.  In April, 2015, she is scheduled to give a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Language Training and Testing Center (LTTC) International Conference, held in Taipei. The theme of the conference will be “Critical Reflections on Foreign Language Education: Globalization and Local Interventions.”  Throughout her professional career, Professor Chalhoub-Deville has received approximately $3M to support her scholarship and R&D projects.   

Professor Chalhoub-Deville has served in various leadership roles in the profession. She is a member of the editorial boards of both Language Testing and Language Assessment Quarterly.  She is the founder of the Mid-West Association of Language Testers (MwALT).  She is a former member of both the TOEFL Policy Board, as well as the TOEFL Committee of Examiners, where she also served as chair for three years.  She currently serves on the ETS K-12 English Learner Technical Advisory Committee and on the British Council Assessment Advisory Board. 




associate professor angela scarino

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Angela Scarino is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, University of South Australia. Her research expertise is in languages education in linguistically and culturally diverse societies, second language curriculum design and assessment, intercultural language learning and second language teacher education. She has been a Chief Investigator on a number of research grants, for example, Assessing the intercultural and language learning (ARC Linkage 2006- 2009) and Student Achievement in Asian Languages Education (DEEWR, 2009-2011). Her most recent books include: Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning (with AJ. Liddicoat, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), Languages in Australian Education: Problems, Prospects and Future Directions, co-edited with AJ Liddicoat, (Cambridge Scholars) and Dynamic Ecologies. A Relational Perspective on Languages Education in the Asia Pacific Region co-edited with N. Murray (Springer 2014). She is currently the Chair of the Multicultural Education Committee, an advisory committee to the Minister for Education in South Australia.