Theme for this year's conference

LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT CONSTRUCTS: EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?

The language assessment landscape is changing rapidly, as new technologies emerge, AI evolves, and education gatekeepers respond to shifts in social and educational priorities.

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But what about language assessment constructs? Do they reflect the technological, social and educational developments we see all around us? Should they even be leading the way, at the vanguard of innovation?

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We invite researchers, academics, practitioners and students to join us in exploring whether our current constructs still hold relevance or need rethinking.

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SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS

• Innovative and novel approaches to assessment

• The case for an ecologically oriented approach to language assessment

• Rethinking constructs with contextually grounded approaches to validity

• L2 acquisition, language assessment research and automated assessment

• Sensitivity to language regularities and patterns as a measure of L2 proficiency

• Elaborating the construct of interactional competence with insights from conversation analysis

• Teacher perspectives on the construct of listening in a globalised world

• Designing academic reading tasks to better reflect the complexity of academic literacy

• Reimagining essay-based assessment in the wake of GenAI

• Detecting AI-written texts and redesigning exams

• The construct implications of accessibility requests and test security constraints

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TICKETS AND REGISTRATION

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