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11:30 Registration
Coffee
11:50 Welcome & Introduction
Dr. Antony Kunnan, CSULA
Workshop 1
12:00 – 2:30 Assessing Reading
Professor Charles Alderson, Lancaster University
2:30 – 3:00 Break
Workshop 2
3:00 – 5:30 Assessing
Speaking
Dr. Dorry Kenyon, Center for Applied Linguistics,
Washington, DC
5:30 – 7:00 Reception
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
Coffee
8:50 – 9:00 Welcome
Professor Simeon Slovacek, CSULA
9:00 – 10:00 Invited paper
Charles Alderson, Lancaster Univ., “Diagnostic testing on the Internet:
Innovations in
testing for language learning”
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 12: 15 Papers
Diane Strong-Krause, BYU, “Describing language test task characteristics”
Young-ju Lee, UCLA, “A
comparison of composing processes and written
products in timed-essay
tests across paper & pencil and computer modes"
Fatma Assef and Heba Galil, Alexandria Univ., “A three-legged diagnostic test”
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:15 Invited paper
Dorry Kenyon, CAL, “The
Foreign Language NAEP”
2:15 – 3: 15 Papers
Jungok Bae, UCLA Extension, “Validation
of grammar, content, spelling,
and text length in English
and Korean writing of elementary school
students”
Nathan Carr, UCLA, “Input
delivery, response collection, and automated
scoring in web-based
language testing”
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 5:00 Papers
Lyle Bachman, UCLA, “Speaking:
Ability or Activity? Where’s the
construct?”
Hossein Farhady, Teheran University and Parisa Daftari Fard
Iran University of Science and Technology "On
the scalability of the components of the reading
comprehension ability:
A progress report"
Rama Mathew and Lalitha Eapen, CIEFL, “A stakeholder approach to trialling test-tasks”
5:00 – 5:30 Panel discussion:
Alderson, Kenyon, Bachman, Kunnan
6:30 Dinner reception
Simeon Slovacek’s house in Altadena