BAAL TEASIG Conference
London 2019
"Exploring the relationship between language assessment and second language acquisition research."
A one-day conference held at University of London (UCL) on Friday, 29 March 2019.
Invited speakers
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Nivja de Jong (Leiden University)
Fluency in language assessment: What testers may learn from research in different disciplines (slides available)
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Evelina Galaczi (Cambridge Assessment English) & Lynda Taylor (University of Bedfordshire)
Interactional competence: At the crossroads of SLA and Language Testing (slides available)
Presentations
Presentations
Tony Clark (Cambridge Assessment English)
Bridging the gap: The effectiveness of intensive IELTS writing preparation in China and Japan and ‘relearning’ academic conventions
Parvaneh Tavakoli, John Slaght, Gill Kendon (University of Reading) & Ann-Marie Hunter (Leeds University)
Assessing Fluency construct from a second language acquisition perspective: The case of TEEP speaking tests (slides available)
Jing Xu (Cambridge Assessment English)
Exploring the order of acquisition of lexical collocations among Chinese learners of English: A cross-sectional study (slides available)
Karen Dunn (British Council) & Janina Iwaniec (University of Bath)
Exploring the relationship between language learning motivation and proficiency for 15-year-old Spanish learners of English (slides available)
Full programme
Full programme available here.