ALTE 5th International Conference April 2014 Thursday 10 April 2014

Time Registration area

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 08.30 9.30 09.30 10.15 10.15 10.20 10.20 11.05 Registration

Espace Adenauer

Salle Branet

Salle David-Weill

Salle Gulbenkian

Mexico House

Salle Nathan

Salle Satsuma

Opening ceremony

Buffer time Plenary 1 Lid King The Diverse Cosmopolis. Babel and the Multicultural City Break

11.05 11.35 11.35 12.05

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Anthony Manning Investigating aspects of Assessment Literacy for teachers of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) TWO SESSIONS

12.05 12.35

Beverly Baker Determining the Language Assessment Literacy of Admissions Decision-Makers in Higher Education Lunch Lunch Lunch

Jorge SnchezIglesias - La evaluacin de la produccin escrita en situaciones multilinges por movilidad: El rasero del nativo Pablo Blanco - La Oficina de Evaluacin, la Evaluacin Lingstica y el cambio de paradigma educativo 2007-2011 Lunch

Gisella Lang CLIL/Emile in Italy: a real driver for lifelong learning

John Field Multilingual education and the readiness of the learner

Sebastien Georges Contrle de l'exposition des items utiliss dans des valuations grande chelle

Jozef Colpaert; Mathea Simons; Margret Oberhofer Time for a new CEFR? Recommendations from the field

Koen Van Gorp; Lucia Luyten; Lieve De Wachter - A concurrent validity study of two academic placement tests Yuyang Cai Assessing strategic competence in ESP reading test performance: Does a language threshold exist? Lunch

Neil Jones - Learning Oriented Assessment and intercultural communication

Jamie Dunlea; Karen Dunn - Investigating English learning outcomes in a multilingual learning context Lunch

Marianne Laurent Impact de la mthode de calcul du score sur les rsultats des candidats

Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen; Eli Moe How valid is the CEFR as a construct for language tests?

12.35 13.35 13.35 13.50 13.50 13.55 13.55 14.25

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Poster Sessions

Transition time Elaine Boyd; David Donnarumma Communicating in a Lingua Franca Whats missing? Clara de Vega Santos; Laura Vela Almendros; Su-Ching Sun - La evaluacin lingstica como instrumento para motivar a los alumnos: el BULATS espaol en Taiwn Javier Fruns Formacin en lnea de examinadores: el modelo DELE Stefanie Haberzettl; Mirja Gruhn Language assessment for appropriate school placement - the case of German unaccompanied minor refugees Eli Moe; Marita Hrml; Jos Pascoal - The language of schooling and language requirements in mathematics and history Beate Zeidler Getting to know the Minimally Competent Person Hichem Belhocine Effet du support de passation d'un test sur les rsultats des candidats 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 Sathena Chan - The context validity of reading-into-writing test tasks

14.25 14.55

TWO SESSIONS

Ines Busch-Lauer Assessing Language Skills in the English for Engineering StudentsClassroom

Gunter Maris - An IRT based extension of the Angoff and bookmark methods for standard setting

Vincent Folny; Chantal Surgot; Delphine Petitjean Dveloppement dun examen standardis en Langue des signes franaise (LSF) destin au public des entendants

Jess Garca Laborda; Isabel Munoz - Improving quality output through interactional theory in the High School Final Diploma

14.55 15.00

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Espace Adenauer 15.00 15.30

Espace Adenauer Margaret Malone; Anne Donovan Assessment of heritage language learners: A pilot study of self-assessment and learner beliefs

Salle Branet Susanne Altenberg Wie testet man Dolmetscher fr die Praxis - oder die hohe Kunst der Sprachbeherrschung?

Salle David-Weill 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

Salle Gulbenkian Anika Mller-Karabil; Claudia Pop - Fair assessment for impaired test takers problems and prospects

Mexico House Pierre Antoine Harlaux - Impact du type de support dans une preuve d'expression crite

Salle Nathan 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 Break

Salle Satsuma Tobias Haug; Ros Herman; Bencie Woll - Preliminary results on the test framework for an online sign language receptive skills test Wolfgang Mann Introducing a new approach to assessment of deaf children's vocabulary knowledge in signed languages

15.30 16.00

TWO SESSIONS

Antonia Garcia Rodriguez - Heritage Spanish speakers in the United States: how do we classify and assess them?

16.00 16.30 16.30 17.00

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Hella Klemmert GER-bezogene berufliche Anforderungen an die Deutschkenntnisse bei Zweitsprachlern: Arbeiten aus der Bundesagentur fr Arbeit Break

Hanan Khalifa; Lynda Taylor - Assessing Students With Disabilities: Voices From The Stakeholder Community

Marie Beillet Nouvelle preuve du TEF-acadmique : valuation de la fidlit inter-juge

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Ardeshir Geranpayeh - Cheating trends in large scale assessment

Tiina Lammervo; Henna Tossavainen; Sari Ahola Challenges of the test construct: Testing Sam 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

17.00 17.30

TWO SESSIONS

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

Jos 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

Alexandre Holle; Yves Portelli; Dominique Casanova - valuer les comptences langagires propres lexercice dun mtier : le cas des infirmiers Katrin Ahlgren; Maria Rydell - Evaluation des capacits d'expression orale - le cas du sudois pour les immigrs adultes

Ene Alas; Suliko Liiv - Working towards Fairness and Quality in Scoring Speaking Tests during National Examinations

Rnnaug 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

17.30 17.35 17.35 18.25

Transition time Plenary 2 Jessica Wu Ensuring Quality and Fairness in the Asian EFL context: Challenges and Opportunities Gala Reception

18.30 20.00

Friday 11 April 2014 Mobility Diversity Intercultural Communication Fairness & Quality
Time Registration area Plenary Parallel Session 1 Parallel Session 2 Parallel Session 3 Parallel Session 4 Parallel Session 5 Parallel Session 6 Parallel session 7

Espace Adenauer 09.00 09.15 09.15 09.20 09.20 10.05 Opening Ceremony

Espace Adenauer

Salle Branet

Salle David-Weill Salle Gulbenkian

Mexico House

Salle Nathan

Salle Satsuma

Buffer time Plenary 3 Bruno Mgre Quality initiative for assessing language skills and international mobility: the case of French Break

10.05 10.30 10.30 11.00

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11.00 11.30

TWO SESSIONS

Pei-Yun (Marian) Pan - Investigating the Dimensionality of L2 Reading Comprehension Competence in Taiwanese EFL Beginners LAMI Rachel Yi Fen Wu Establishing test form comparability: a case study of a ChineseEnglish translation test

Aleidine Moeller Language Assessment and Mixed Methods Research

Stephen Bax - Using eye-tracking technology to researching Multiple Choice format in an advanced online reading test

Claire Tardieu; Pascale Manoilov Analyse des interactions orales professeur-lve et lve-lve en situation de speed meeting Carlos Soler Montes Evaluacin del espaol en contextos multiculturales: Datos sobre la adquisicin del nivel A1 en escuelas primarias de Norteamrica

Tomoyasu Akiyama Examining test fairness: Focusing on Rater Behavior in the Case of Employing Prospective English Teachers

Hatice Asvaroglu English as a Foreign Language Teachers' Intercultural Awareness and its Influence on their Assessment Practices

Nahal Khabbazbashi; Hanan Khalifa - An investigation into the impact of a workplace English language program in Egypt Transition time

Li Yanglong; Liwen Li English Matriculation Reading Test and Cultivation of Critical Thinking Ability Based on Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy

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)

11.30 11.35 11.35 12.05

12.05 12.35

TWO SESSIONS

LAMI and LAMI Discussion

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 Jovanovic 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

12.35 13.30

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Inmaculada Borrego Ledesma; Jorge Snchez-Iglesias Gnero textual e interculturalidad en la evaluacin de la expresin escrita: El parmetro de adecuacin Cristina Perez Guillot; Julia ZabalaDelgado - Requisitos lingsticos 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 Maria Alcantud Diaz The Strength of Cultural Diversity: Teaching Intercultural and Solidarity Competences through Languages and Literatures: TALIS

Jian Xu; Xiandong Gu - Voice from TestTakers: An Exploratory Study on Business English Certificate within Chinese Context

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Espace Adenauer 13.30 14.00

Espace Adenauer Sibylle Plassmann Assessment for the workplace: the new German test for doctors

Salle Branet Christian Krekeler Assessing language for specific purposes: The role of background knowledge

Salle David-Weill Maria Jos 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 Salle Gulbenkian Henrik Bhn; GroAnita Myklevold Assessing spoken EFL in Norway: How nativespeaker centered?

Mexico House Jacqueline Van Houten - Innovation in the use of intercultural competency standards for state assessment data on student growth

Salle Nathan Rachel Brooks Comparing Native and Non-Native Raters of US Federal Government Speaking Tests

Salle Satsuma Xiangdong Gu, Yuwen Shen; Jian Xu - A TAP Study of Thai Test-takers' Processes of Taking a Chinese Vocabulary Test

14.00 14.30

TWO SESSIONS

Ina Ferbear "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

Felix Etxeberria 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

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 Break/ Exhibition Vivien Berry; Barry OSullivan; Sandra Rugea - Language standards for medical practice in the UK: issues of fairness and quality for all TWO SESSIONS Break/ Exhibition Mardik Andonyan; Julia Todorinova - A Differential Item Functioning Study for Less Widely-Taught Languages Break/ Exhibition Angeliki Salamoura; Angela Ffrench; Jayanti S. Ravi - An investigation into the use of standardised assessment for employability purposes in India Marina Solnyshkina - The first Language Assessment course in Kazan University (Russia): Learning Outcomes Break/ Exhibition 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 Break/ Exhibition John Tucker - Test specifications and item writer guidelines in a multilingual world: issues and solutions Break/ Exhibition 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 Bart Deygers; Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen The B2 level and its applicability in university placement tests

15.20 15.45 15.45 16.15

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Maria Brau Assessing Competence in Intercultural Communication: The Interagency Language Roundtable Skill Level Descriptions

Mohammad Alavi; Hossein Karami Examining Differential Item Functioning in a Rasch model, Logistic Regression, and Mantel-Haenszel

Geoff Tranter - A Language Testing System Designed to Enhance Mobility for Professionals in Technical Industries

Stphanie McGaw Language certification in French universities: an attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice

16.45 16.50 16.50 17.35

Transition time Plenary 5 David Graddol - The changing status of English in the Pearl River Delta, China Closing

17.35 17.55