ALTE European Year of Languages Conference

ALTE 5th International Conference April 2014
Thursday 10 April 2014
Time
Presentation
type
Mobility ● Diversity ● Intercultural Communication ● Fairness & Quality ●
Plenary
Parallel Session
1
Parallel Session
2
Parallel Session
3
Parallel Session
4
Parallel Session
5
Parallel Session
6
Parallel session
7
Espace Adenauer
Salle Branet
Salle David-Weill
Salle Gulbenkian
Mexico House
Salle Nathan
Salle Satsuma
Espace Adenauer
08.30
9.30
09.30
10.15
10.15
10.20
10.20
11.05
Registration
11.05
11.35
11.35
12.05
Break
Opening
ceremony
Plenary 1
Lid King The Diverse
Cosmopolis.
Babel and the
Multicultural
City
Break
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Anthony Manning Investigating aspects
of Assessment
Literacy for teachers of
English for Academic
Purposes (EAP)
Gisella Langé CLIL/Emile in Italy: a
real driver for lifelong
learning
Daniela Fasoglio;
Claire Smulders Chinese A1 and A2
tests in Dutch
secondary education
Sebastien Georges Contrôle de
l'exposition des items
utilisés dans des
évaluations à grande
échelle
Jozef Colpaert; Ann
Aerts; Margret
Oberhofer - Time for a
new CEFR?
Recommendations
from the field
Koen Van Gorp;
Lucia Luyten; Sabine
Steemans - A
concurrent validity
study of two academic
placement tests
Beverly Baker Determining the
Language Assessment
Literacy of Admissions
Decision-Makers in
Higher Education
Jorge SánchezIglesias - La
evaluación de la
producción escrita en
situaciones
multilingües por
movilidad: El rasero
del nativo
Pablo Blanco - La
Oficina de Evaluación,
la Evaluación
Lingüística y el cambio
de paradigma
educativo 2007-2011
Neil Jones - Learning
Oriented Assessment
and intercultural
communication
Jamie Dunlea; Karen
Dunn - Investigating
English learning
outcomes in a
multilingual learning
context
Marianne Laurent Impact de la méthode
de calcul du score sur
les résultats des
candidats
Cecilie Hamnes
Carlsen; Eli Moe How valid is the CEFR
as a construct for
language tests?
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Yuyang Cai –
Assessing strategic
competence in ESP
reading test
performance: Does a
language threshold
exist?
Lunch
Beate Zeidler Getting to know the
Minimally Competent
Person
Hichem Belhocine Effet du support de
passation d'un test sur
les résultats des
candidats
Gunter Maris - An IRT
based extension of the
Angoff and bookmark
methods for standard
setting
Vincent Folny;
Chantal Surgot;
Delphine Petitjean Développement d’un
examen standardisé
en Langue des signes
française (LSF)
destiné au public des
entendants
Roger Hawkey; Sarah
Ellis - Impacts of
international language
assessments on
multilingualism:
evidence from iterative
studies of Progetto
Lingue 2000
Masashi Negishi;
Yukio Tono - An
update on the CEFR-J
project and its impact
on English language
education in Japan
TWO SESSIONS
12.05
12.35
12.35
13.35
13.35
13.50
13.50
13.55
13.55
14.25
14.25
14.55
14.55
15.00
Lunch
Lunch
Poster
Sessions
Transition time
Elaine Boyd; David
Donnarumma Communicating in a
Lingua Franca –
What’s missing?
TWO SESSIONS
Ines Busch-Lauer –
Assessing Language
Skills in the English for
Engineering
Students’Classroom
Clara de Vega
Santos; Laura Vela
Almendros- La
evaluación lingüística
como instrumento para
motivar a los alumnos:
el BULATS español en
Taiwán
Javier Fruns Formación en línea de
examinadores: el
modelo DELE
Stefanie Haberzettl;
Mirja Gruhn Language assessment
for appropriate school
placement - the case
of German
unaccompanied minor
refugees
Eli Moe; José
Pascoal - The
language of schooling
and language
requirements in
mathematics and
history
Transition time
Sathena Chan - The
context validity of
reading-into-writing
test tasks
Jesús García
Laborda; Isabel
Muñoz - Improving
quality output through
interactional theory in
the High School Final
Diploma
Time
Presentation
type
Plenary
Parallel Session
1
Parallel Session
2
Parallel Session
3
Parallel Session
4
Parallel Session
5
Parallel Session
6
Parallel session
7
Espace Adenauer
Salle Branet
Salle David-Weill
Salle Gulbenkian
Mexico House
Salle Nathan
Salle Satsuma
Margaret Malone;
Anne Donovan Assessment of
heritage language
learners: A pilot study
of self-assessment and
learner beliefs
Susanne Altenberg Wie testet man
Dolmetscher für die
Praxis - oder die hohe
Kunst der
Sprachbeherrschung?
Anika Müller-Karabil;
Claudia Pop - Fair
assessment for
impaired test takers –
problems and
prospects
Pierre Antoine
Harlaux - Impact du
type de support dans
une épreuve
d'expression écrite
Hella Klemmert GER-bezogene
berufliche
Anforderungen an die
Deutschkenntnisse bei
Zweitsprachlern:
Arbeiten aus der
Bundesagentur für
Arbeit
Break
Hanan Khalifa; Lynda
Taylor - Assessing
Students With
Disabilities: Voices
From The Stakeholder
Community
Marie Beillet Nouvelle épreuve du
TEF-académique :
évaluation de la fidélité
inter-juge
Jane Lloyd; Christina
Gregor - Exploring
reliability in assessing
language exam
performance in the
Goethe-Institut's
worldwide network of
raters
Liljana Skopinskaja;
Suliko Liiv - Exploring
Cultural Differences in
Rating Oral
Performance During
the National English
Language Examination
in Estonia
Tobias Haug; Ros
Herman; Bencie Woll
- Preliminary results on
the test framework for
an online sign
language receptive
skills test
Antonia Garcia
Rodríguez - Heritage
Spanish speakers in
the United States: how
do we classify and
assess them?
Denise Lussier Intercultural
communicative
competence in
language education:
the modeling of the
Canadian conceptual
framework
Enrica Piccardo Assessment as
recognition: a Personal
Language Portfolio
(PLP) for valuing
Canada's linguistic
diversity
Break
Break
Break
Break
Break
Alexandre Holle;
Yves Portelli;
Dominique Casanova
- Évaluer les
compétences
langagières propres à
l’exercice d’un métier :
le cas des infirmiers
Katrin Ahlgren; Maria
Rydell - Evaluation
des capacités
d'expression orale - le
cas du suédois pour
les immigrés adultes
Ene Alas; Suliko Liiv
- Working towards
Fairness and Quality in
Scoring Speaking
Tests during National
Examinations
Rønnaug Katharina
Totland; Margaret
Farstad; Britt Greve Developing tests
adapted for the deaf according to the CEFR
Danilo Rini; Jane
Lloyd - Meeting
standards in assessing
speaking: monitoring
and improving the
quality of examinations
in Italian
Laura Kanto; Ritva
Takkinen - The
process of adapting a
BSL receptive skills
test into Finnish Sign
Language
Espace Adenauer
15.00
15.30
15.30
16.00
TWO SESSIONS
16.00
16.30
16.30
17.00
Break
17.00
17.30
TWO SESSIONS
17.30
17.35
17.35
18.25
18.30
20.00
Break
Break
Ardeshir Geranpayeh
- Cheating trends in
large scale
assessment
Tiina Lammervo;
Henna Tossavainen;
Sari Ahola Challenges of the test
construct: Testing
Samí as L2 in Finland
Paola Masillo Language assessment
for migration and
social integration: a
case study
Michaela Stoffers When Braille is not
enough anymore: New
technologies for
assessing candidates
with special needs
Maria Stathopoulou Assessing TestTakers'
Translanguaging
Competence: The
Case Of The Greek
National Exams For
Foreign Language
Proficiency
Paul Tucker Measuring Proficiency
in Modern Standard
Arabic among Native
Speakers of Arabic
Dialects: Field Test
Results
José Pascoal Language competence
for citizenship: a profile
in intercultural
communication
embracing general and
language
competences
Geraldine Ludbrook Investigating the use of
voice synthesis in the
language testing of
students with SpLDs
Transition time
Plenary 2
Jessica Wu Ensuring
Quality and
Fairness in the
Asian EFL
context:
Challenges and
Opportunities
Reception
Wolfgang Mann Introducing a new
approach to
assessment of deaf
children's vocabulary
knowledge in signed
languages
Friday 11 April 2014 Mobility ● Diversity ● Intercultural Communication ● Fairness & Quality ●
Time
Presentation
type
Plenary
Parallel Session
1
Parallel Session
2
Parallel Session
3
Parallel Session
4
Parallel Session
5
Parallel Session
6
Parallel session
7
Espace Adenauer
Salle Branet
Salle DavidWeill
Salle Gulbenkian
Mexico House
Salle Nathan
Salle Satsuma
Espace Adenauer
Opening Ceremony
09.00
09.15
09.15
09.20
09.20
10.05
Plenary 3
Bruno Mègre –
Quality
initiative for
assessing
language skills
and
international
mobility: the
case of French
Break
10.05
10.30
10.30
11.00
TWO SESSIONS
11.00
11.30
Break
Language
Assessment for
Migration and
Integration
(LAMI) Forum
11.30
11.35
11.35
12.05
Break
Break
Break
Break
Pei-Yun (Marian) Pan
- Investigating the
Dimensionality of L2
Reading
Comprehension
Competence in
Taiwanese EFL
Beginners
Aleidine Moeller Language
Assessment and
Mixed Methods
Research
Trisevgeni Liontou Cultural Familiarity and
Reading Comprehension
Performance: The testtakers' perspective
Claire Tardieu;
Pascale Manoilov Analyse des
interactions orales
professeur-élève et
élève-élève en
situation de « speed
meeting »
Tomoyasu Akiyama Examining test
fairness: Focusing on
Rater Behavior in the
Case of Employing
Prospective English
Teachers
Hatice Asvaroğlu English as a Foreign
Language Teachers'
Intercultural
Awareness and its
Influence on their
Assessment Practices
Rachel Yi-fen Wu Establishing test form
comparability: a case
study of a ChineseEnglish translation test
Nahal
Khabbazbashi;
Hanan Khalifa - An
investigation into the
impact of a
workplace English
language program in
Egypt
Yanglong Li; Liwen Li English Matriculation
Reading Test and
Cultivation of Critical
Thinking Ability Based
on Bloom's Cognitive
Taxonomy
Carlos Soler Montes Evaluación del español
en contextos
multiculturales: Datos
sobre la adquisición
del nivel A1 en
escuelas primarias de
Norteamérica
Robert Edwards How good is good
enough? Setting
standards on a
language test for preservice ESL teachers
Brian North - Profiling
Teacher
Competences: the
multilingual validation
of the European
Profiling Grid (EPG)
Inmaculada Borrego
Ledesma; Jorge
Sánchez-Iglesias Género textual e
interculturalidad en la
evaluación de la
expresión escrita: El
parámetro de
adecuación
Cristina Pérez
Guillot; Julia ZabalaDelgado - Requisitos
lingüísticos para
alumnos de
intercambio: salvando
distancias entre
expectativas y realidad
Lunch/Exhibition
Winfried Koch;
Kathrin Hahn BULATS: A tool for
measuring and
comparing progress in
language learning?
Chariklia
Michalakopoulou Teaching vocabulary in
English as a tool for
discovering linguistic
and cultural
interralationships
among languages
Xiandong Gu - Voice
from Test-Takers: An
Exploratory Study on
Business English
Certificate within
Chinese Context
María Alcantud Díaz The Strength of
Cultural Diversity:
Teaching Intercultural
and Solidarity
Competences through
Languages and
Literatures: TALIS
Transition time
TWO SESSIONS
12.05
12.35
12.35
13.30
Break
Lunch/
Exhibition
LAMI Forum and
Discussion
Lunch/
Exhibition
Lunch/Exhibition
Daniel Reed;
Heekyoung Kim;
Susan Gass Establishing fair testing
practices through an
intercultural
collaboration between
Greek and American
educational institutions
Gwendydd Caudwell
- Exploring
Judgements of
Speaking Performance
by Native and NonNative Raters
Ana Jovanović Education for mobility
or intercultural
competence?
Parents’ attitudes
toward foreign
language learning
Anthony Green; Colin
Finnerty - How do we
balance statistical
evidence with expert
judgment when aligning
tests to the CEFR?
Joanna Lewis - Test
of Interpersonal Skills
for English Language
Learners
Emyr Davies; Anthony
Green - A less widely
taught language in
international
perspective: linking tests
of Welsh to the CEFR
Lunch/Exhibition
Lunch/Exhibition
Lunch/Exhibition
Lunch/Exhibition
Time
Presentation
type
Plenary
Parallel Session
1
Parallel Session
2
Parallel Session
3
Parallel Session
4
Parallel Session
5
Parallel Session
6
Parallel session
7
Espace Adenauer
Salle Branet
Salle DavidWeill
Salle Gulbenkian
Mexico House
Salle Nathan
Salle Satsuma
Sibylle Plassmann Assessment for the
workplace: the new
German test for
doctors
Christian Krekeler Assessing language
for specific purposes:
The role of background
knowledge
Henrik Bøhn; GroAnita Myklevold Assessing spoken EFL
in Norway: How nativespeaker centered?
Jacqueline Van
Houten - Innovation in
the use of intercultural
competency standards
for state assessment
data on student growth
Rachel Brooks Comparing Native and
Non-Native Raters of
US Federal
Government Speaking
Tests
Xiangdong Gu - A
TAP Study of Thai
Test-takers' Processes
of Taking a Chinese
Vocabulary Test
Ina Ferbežar –
"I swear by Apollo
Physician..." Language
requirements for
medical doctors in
Slovenia
Lucia Luyten; Petra
Poelmans; Willemjin
van den Berg - Taskbased language testing
- avoiding the pitfalls
and strengthening the
potential
Maria José Grosso;
Catarina Gaspar;
Heinz Peter
Gerhardt - Migrant
associations get
involved: A
Portuguese
experience on nonformal education and
learning PLE
Matteo Santipolo;
Alberta Novello Testing sociopragmalinguistic
competence for
social integration
Felix Etxeberria –
Assessing the Oral
Competence in Basque
of Native and Immigrant
Pupils
Janina Leithold
Cunnen - Assessing
international students'
intercultural
competences: A
promising instrument
for successful
(language) learning? A
case study
Chihiro Inoue Measuring Syntactic
Complexity of Spoken
Performance
Shujiao Wang Exploring the Chinese
proficiency test,
HanyuShuipingKaoshi
and its washback
effects: The testtakers’ perspective
Espace Adenauer
13.30
14.00
TWO SESSIONS
14.00
14.30
14.30
14.35
14.35
15.20
Transition time
Plenary 4
Anne Gallagher Multilingualism
and the lingua
franca: a role
for assessment
in redressing
the balance
Break/
Exhibition
15.20
15.45
15.45
16.15
16.15
16.45
16.45
16.50
16.50
17.35
17.35
17.55
TWO SESSIONS
Break/
Exhibition
Break/
Exhibition
Break/
Exhibition
Break/
Exhibition
Break/
Exhibition
Break/
Exhibition
Vivien Berry; Barry
O’Sullivan; Sandra
Rugea - Language
standards for medical
practice in the UK:
issues of fairness and
quality for all
Mardik Andonyan;
Julia Todorinova - A
Differential Item
Functioning Study for
Less Widely-Taught
Languages
Mohammad Alavi;
Hossein Karami Examining Differential
Item Functioning in a
Rasch model, Logistic
Regression, and
Mantel-Haenszel
Rita Marzoli; Fabio
Alivernini - The
interplay between
bilingualism and reading
abilities in predicting
reading literacy and
attitudes towards
reading
Lisbeth M Brevik Mapping Tests:
Comparing Upper
Secondary Students'
Reading Skills in L1 and
L2
John Tucker - Test
specifications and item
writer guidelines in a
multilingual world:
issues and solutions
Maria Brau; Ewa
Zeoli - Assessing
Competence in
Intercultural
Communication: The
Interagency Language
Roundtable Skill Level
Descriptions
Angeliki
Salamoura; Angela
ffrench - An
investigation into the
use of standardised
assessment for
employability
purposes in India
Marina
Solnyshkina; Elena
Kharkova - The first
Language
Assessment course
in Kazan University
(Russia): Learning
Outcomes
Claudia Harsch Intercultural
Competencies for
entering the global
workplace - a possible
approach to
assessment and
validation
Ahmad Al-Issa Towards A Model for
Assessing Intercultural
Communication
Competence
Transition time
Plenary 5
David Graddol The changing
status of
English in the
Pearl River
Delta, China
Closing
Geoff Tranter - A
Language Testing
System Designed to
Enhance Mobility for
Professionals in
Technical Industries
Bart Deygers; Cecilie
Hamnes Carlsen The B2 level and its
applicability in
university placement
tests
Stéphanie McGaw Language certification
in French universities:
an attempt to bridge
the gap between
theory and practice