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Conference Day 1 March 18, 2015
Time
Location 1
Location 2
Location 3
Location 4
8:00am-5:00pm
Conference Registration
Churchill Court
8:00am-5:00pm
Publishers’ exhibit
Churchill Court
8:45-9:00am
Welcome to LTRC + Intro to
Messick Lecture
Churchill Ballroom
9:00-10:00am
Messick Memorial Lecture: Susan
Brookhart
Churchill Ballroom
10:00-10:20am
Break
Churchill Court
10:20-11:45am
Paper Session 1
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Mountbatten A
Mountbatten B
10:20-10:45
Gu, Yan, & Tian:
Impact of an
International English
Proficiency Test on
Young Learners—
Voices from learners
and parents
Tsagari & Vogt:
Assessment Literacy
of Foreign Language
Teachers: Research,
Challenges and
Future Prospects
Llosa, Malone,
Wei, Donavan,
& Stevens:
Comparability
of writing tasks
in TOEFL iBT
and university
writing courses:
Insights from
students and
instructors
Wagner, Chen,
Park, Stone, &
Jang: Evaluating
and Revising a
Reading Test
Blueprint
through
Multiple
Methods: The
Case of the
CELPIP-G
10:50-11:15
Gu & Hsieh:
Distinguishing
features in scoring
young language
Hill: The implications
of learning-oriented
assessment for
developing teacher
Fan & Song:
Impact and
consequences of
university-based
Elwood &
Petchko:
Development
and Validation
First presenter is the session chair
students’ oral
performances
assessment literacy
assessment in
China: A case
study
of a Placement
Test for a MultiPolar Graduate
Institute
11:20-11:45
So, Zapata, Evanini,
Tao, Luce, &
Battistini:
Development of
innovative
assessment tasks to
measure spoken
language abilities of
young English
learners
Hall: Language
Background and
Writing Course
Assessment
Sawaki &
Koizumi:
Japanese
students’ and
teachers’
perception and
use of score
reports for two
large-scale EFL
tests
Brau & Brooks:
Testing the right
skill: the
misapplication
of reading
scores as a
predictor of
translation
ability
11:45-12:00
Group Photo
Churchill Court
12:00-1:30pm
Lunch
Restaurants in and
around the hotel
LAQ Editorial Board Meeting
1:30-3:00pm
Poster Session
Rossetti
Mountbatten Lane
Session Chair: Yong-Won Lee
30 posters in total. Poster presenters
are required to set up by March 17 –
after the opening reception, but no
later than 1pm on March 18.
3:00-4:25pm
Paper Session 2
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Mountbatten A
Mountbatten B
3:00-3:25
Iwashita & Vasquez:
Features of discourse
Phakiti: Structural
equation models of
Qian: Applying
Academic
Dunlop: Eye
tacking of
learner
3:30-3:55
4:00-4:25
competence in IELTS
speaking task
performances at
different band levels
calibration,
performance
appraisals, and
strategy use in an
IELTS Listening Test
Vocabulary
Lists to
Validating Test
Contents
Youn: The
interlocutor effect in
paired speaking tasks
to assess interactional
competence
Cai: Producing
actionable feedback
in EFL diagnostic
assessment
Harsch &
Hartig: C-tests
outperform
Yes/No
vocabulary size
tests as
predictors of
receptive
language skills
Suvorov: Test-takers’
Use of Visual
Information From
Context and Content
Videos in the Videobased Academic
Listening Test
Kramer &
McLean:
Comparing
aural and
written
receptive
vocabulary
knowledge of
the first 5k and
the AWL
Enrique, Díaz
Moreno & Baten
Challenges of
Blended Learning
Assessments in
Network-Limited
Areas
4:25-4:50pm
Break
Churchill Court
interactions with
diagnostic
feedback on
French as a
Second
Language skill
reports
Ballard & Lee:
How Young
Children
Respond to
Online TOEFL
Primary
Reading and
Speaking Test
Tasks
Fleckenstein,
Leucht &
Köller: B2 or
C1?
Investigating the
equivalence of
CEFR-based
proficiency
level
classifications
4:50-6:20pm
Symposium Session 1
Churchill Ballroom
Fox, Baker & Laurier,
Mellow & Begg,
Zumbo & Maddox, &
Slomp:
Testing as social
practice: Canada and
context in construct
representation, test
interpretation, and
arguments for
consequential validity
6:30-7:30pm
Mountbatten Salon
Professional Event #1 Publishing in
Language Assessment
Chair: Guoxing Yu
Special Sponsor: Higher Education
Press
Guoxing Yu, Executive Editor, Assessment in Education (Taylor & Francis)
Liz Hamp-Lyons, Editor, Assessing Writing (Elsevier)
James Purpura, Editor, Language Assessment Quarterly (Taylor & Francis)
April Ginther, Co-Editor, Language Testing (Sage)
Fred Davidson, Distinguished Editorial Adviser, Language Testing in Asia (Springer)
Conference Day 2 March 19, 2015
Time
Location 1
Location 2
Location 3
Location 4
8:30am-5pm
Conference Registration
Churchill Court
8:30am-5pm
Publishers’ exhibit
Churchill Court
8:45-9:00am
Announcements
Churchill Ballroom
9:00-10:00am
The Davies Lecture: Alister Cumming
Churchill Ballroom
10:00-10:20
Break
10:20-11:45
Paper Session 3
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Mountbatten A
Mountbatten B
Symposium Session 2
Papers
Papers
Symposium
Papers
10:20-10:45
Colby-Kelly:
Assessing the
unobservable: Can
AFL inform on
nascent learning in an
L2 classroom setting?
Volkov & Stone:
Empirically Derived
Rating Rubric in a
Large-Scale Testing
Context
Zhang, Shen, &
Huang
Assessment for
Learning (AFL):
Teaching,
Learning and
Assessment in
the Writing
Classroom
Ma: Chinese
Students’ Test
Preparation for
Success on Highstakes English
Language Tests
10:50-11:15
Saito: Junior and
Senior High School
EFL Teachers’
Practice of Formative
Assessment: A Mixed
Method Study
Wu & Lee:
Constructing a
common scale for a
multi-level test to
enhance
interpretation of
learning outcomes
11:20-11:45
Winke, Lee, Walter,
Margolis: Factors
Bai: A Students’
Perspective in a
High-stakes Test:
Attitudes,
Contributing
Factors and Test
Performance
Xu: Language
Wayant,
Thirakunkovit, &
Yan: What does the
Cloze Test Really
Test? A Replication
with Eye-tracking
Data
11:45-1:30pm
1:30-3:00pm
Contributing to
Fluency Ratings in
Classroom-based
Assessment
assessment literacy
in practice: A case
study of a Chinese
university English
teacher
Lunch
ILTA Membership Meeting
Churchill Ballroom
Work in Progress
Mountbatten Salon
Session Chair: Lorena Llosa
20 WIPs in total
3:00-4:25pm
Papers Session 4
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Rossetti
3:00-3:25
Knoch, Macqueen,
May, Pill, & Storch:
Transitioning from
university to the
workplace:
Stakeholder
perceptions of
academic and
professional writing
demands
Papagergiou &
Ockey: Does accent
strength affect
performance on a
listening
comprehension test
for interactive
lectures?
Ikeda:
Investigating
constructs of L2
pragmatics
through L2
learners’ oral
discourse and
interview data
3:30-3:55
Kim & Billington:
Tackling the issue of
L1 influenced
pronunciation in
Min & He:
Examining the effect
of DIF anchor items
on equating
Lidster & Shin:
Developing and
Validating
Achievement-
4:00-4:25
English as a lingua
franca communication
contexts: The case of
aviation
invariance in
computer-based EFL
listening assessment
van Naerssen:
Promoting Credible
Language Assessment
in Courts: Two
Forensic Cases
Saif, Cheng, &
Rahimi
High-Stakes Test
Preparation Programs
and Learning
Outcomes: A
Context-Specific
Study of Learners’
Performance on
IELTS
4:25-4:45pm
Break
Churchill Court
4:45-6:15pm
Symposia Session 3
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Purpura, Waring,
Hamp-Lyons, Green
& Hill
Stenner, O'Sullivan,
Dunlea, Sandvik, &
Geva
Roles and needs of
learning-oriented
language assessment
New Models and
Technologies for
Blurring the
Distinction between
Language Testing
and Language
Learning
Based
Assessments of
Student Learning
Outcomes in an
Intensive English
Program
Park, Dunlop,
Boom, & Jang
A mixedmethods
investigation into
the young
learners’
cognitive and
metacognitive
strategy use in
reading test
6:30-7:30pm
Mountbatten Salon
Professional Event #2 Careers in Language
Assessment
Chair: Eunice Jang
Ardeshir Geranpayeh, Cambridge English Language Assessment
Jonathan Schmidgall, Educational Testing Service
May Tan, Canadian Armed Forces
Eunice Jang, OISE/University of Toronto
Jake Stone, Paragon Testing Enterprises (University of British Columbia)
Conference Day 3 March 20, 2015
Time
Location 1
7:30am-12:30pm
Conference Registration
Churchill Court
8am-6pm
Publishers’ exhibit
Churchill Court
8:45-9:00
Announcements
Churchill Ballroom
9:00-10:10
Cambridge/ILTA Distinguished
Achievement Award:
Churchill Ballroom
Location 2
Location 3
Tim McNamara
10:00-10:20
Break
10:20-11:45
Papers Session 5
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Mountbatten A
10:20-10:45
Isaacs & Turner:
Aligning teaching,
learning, and assessment
in EAP instruction?
Stakeholders’ views,
external influences, and
researchers’
perspectives
Huhta, Alderson,
Nieminen, &
Ullakonoja:
Diagnostic profiling
of foreign language
readers and writers
Roever, Elder, & Fraser:
Validation of a webbased test of ESL
sociopragmatics
10:50-11:15
Van Gorp: Integrating
task-based language
teaching and
assessment: towards a
unified task
specification framework
Jin, Zou, & Zhang:
What CEFR Level
Descriptors Mean to
College English
Teachers and Students
in China
Ryu: Investigating a
construct of pragmatic
and communicative
language ability through
email writing tasks
Location 4
11:20-11:45
11:45-1:15pm
1:15-2:40pm
Erickson: Large-scale
Assessment for
Learning – a
collaborative approach
Zhao, Jin, & Wang:
Detecting evidence
behind the College
English Curriculum
Requirements in
China: A mixedmethods study
Liu: Automated writing
instructional tool for
English language
learners: A case study of
WriteToLearn
Lunch
LT Editorial Board Meeting
Rossetti
Papers Session 6
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Mountbatten A
1:15-1:40
Boraie (TESOL)
Caudwell &
O’Sullivan: Can
planning at the
functional level affect
test score?
Xi: Language constructs
revisited for practical test
design, development and
validation
The construct of
language assessment
literacy as perceived by
foreign language
teachers in a specific
context
1:45-2:10
Inbar-Lourie & Levi:
Implementing formative
classroom assessment
initiatives: What
language assessment
literacy knowledge is
required?
Dunlea & Fairbairn:
Investigating the
impact of language
background on the
rating of spoken and
written performances
Ginther, Yan, & Potts:
The relationship between
TOEFL and GPA: the
case of Chinese students
2:15-2:40
Lin, Wu, & Guo:
Developing and
validating an assessment
literacy inventory for
Middle School English
Volkov & Stone:
Analysis of NormReferencing Modifiers
as a Component of
Gao & Wu: A Validation
Study of an English
Speaking Test for
Chinese 8th Graders
2:40-3:00
Break
3:00-4:30
Symposia Session 4
Teachers in Chinese
context
Rating Rubrics
Mountbatten A
Mountbatten B
Schoonen, Schmitt,
Kremmel, Jarvis, &
Segalowitz
Vocabulary in
assessment: what do we
mean and what do we
assess?
4:35-5:35
Debate
Churchill Ballroom
5:35-5:45
Closing
Churchill Ballroom
6:30-10:00
Banquet and Awards
Hart House
Wu, Qi, Han, Liu &
Wei
The Evaluation of
School-based EFL
Teaching and
Learning in China
Rossetti
Weigle, Deane,
Geranpayyeh, Suzuki,
Davis &
Ginther
Applications of
automated scoring tools
for student feedback and
learning