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TEASIG 2013 Conference Programme

22 November 2013, Friday

Rooms

Times

 

 

08:00 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 –

09:25

Opening address  - Auditorium (ground floor)

 

Plenary 1

Auditorium

09:30 – 10:30

Prof. Elana Shoamy

The needs, practices and challenges of bi-multilingual assessment

 

COFFEE BREAK 10:30 – 11:00

 

Rooms

Room 10 (first floor)

Room 11 (first floor)

Session 1

11:00 – 11:30

Language assessment for social integration for migrants: a case study – Monica Barni & Paola Masillo

Professional language and intercultural studies’: what and how to assess? –Judith Hanks

Session 2

11:40 – 12:10

Enhancing peer assessment in the international settings. A case study

– Barbara Loranc-Paszylk

Assessing intercultural competence – Betru Shiferaw

 

LUNCH BREAK 12:15 – 13:15

 

Plenary 2 

Auditorium

13:15 – 14:15

Dr Nick Saville

How can language assessment support linguistic diversity?

Rooms

Room 10 (first floor)

Room 11 (first floor)

Session 3

14:20 – 14:50

Towards a valid test construct within an ELF framework  – Geraldine Ludbrook

Plurilingual immigrant repertoires in Italy: what's up?– Sabrina Machetti & Raymond Siebetcheu

Session 4

Workshop

(50 mins)

15:00 – 15:50

Testing Intercultural Competence in English: Basic Questions and Practical Answers – Rudi Camerer

Using the CEFR in test task design across four languages – Carol Spoettl & Kathrin Eberharter

 

COFFEE BREAK 15:50 – 16:20

 

Rooms

Room 10 (first floor)

Room 11 (first floor)

Session 5

16:20 – 16:50

The impact of language background on the validity of C-tests – Monique Reichert

Assessing English as Lingua Franca in SriLankan Education – Ramesh Subathini

 

18:00 – 20:00

COCKTAIL at Contrada della Selva, Piazzetta della Selva n. 4

 

 

23 November 2013, Saturday

 

Rooms

Times

 

 

08:00 – 09:00

Registration

Plenary 3

Room 10

09:00 – 10:00

Dr Diane Schmitt

Student Mobility, International Tests and Local Assessment Realities

Rooms

Room 10

Room 11

Session 1

10:10 – 10:40

Promoting excellence in testing and assessment of English  – Lucie Betakova

Think-aloud methodology for assessment of adult beginning level plurilingual readers – Lawrence Pruski

COFFEE BREAK 10:40 – 11:00

Rooms

Room 10

Room 11

Session 2

11:00 – 11:30

International mobility and the impact on LT: the Chinese students – Carla Bagna

Assessing intercultural communicative competence and a sociocultural approach to learning – Claudia Borghetti

Session 3

11:40 – 12:10

Testing English as a world language: challenges and solutions – Hale Kizilcik & Deniz Salli-Copur

Are tests in two languages linked to the common standard? –Jana Bérešová

LUNCH BREAK 12:15 – 13:15

Plenary 4

Room 10

13:15 –

14:15

Prof John de Jong

Moving boundaries and languages on the move

Rooms

Room 10

Room 11

Session 4

Workshop

(50 mins)

14:20 – 15:10

Calibrating challenging C2 candidates: Evaluating Speaking Tests in Germany  – Russell Sean McDonald

Norwegian teachers’ attitudes towards the assessment of pronunciation and intonation – Henrik Bohn & Thomas Hansen

Session 5

15:20 – 15:50

Implications in assessing intercultural competence: core vocabulary and core collocations – Veronica Benigno

Multilingual Situation in Russia: Foreign Language Teaching and Testing – Tatiana Shkuratova & Alexander Noranovich

COFFEE BREAK 15:50 – 16:20

 

Room 10

16:20 – 17:20

Panel discussion conducted by TEA SIG incoming coordinator Judith Mader

Room 10

17:20 – 17.30

CLOSING CEREMONY

 

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