language assessment literacy across stakeholder boundaries

146 Pages·2017·3.62 MB·English

LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
LITERACY ACROSS
STAKEHOLDER BOUNDARIES
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CONTENT
Conference
Site Details
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Recommended
hotels
Campus
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Maps
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Welcome
Transportation to
message 98
and from the site
from the ILTA
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President
Restaurants, cafés
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and bars around
Letter the recommended
from LTRC areas
Co-Chairs 23 Works-in-
Progress
Invited Abstracts
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Speakers
Special Invited
LTRC 2017
Plenary:
Conference
Language and
Overview
Assessment in
the Colombian
Context
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The Samuel Paper
J. Messick Abstracts
Memorial
Lecture Pre-
Conference
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Workshops
Abstracts
Poster Abstracts
The Davies
Lecture
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Los Andes Language 133
14 Assessment
Outreach Workshop
Leaders
LTRC Organizing
Committee 2017
Index of
ILTA Executive Board 81 Presenters
and Committee
Members 2017
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The Cambridge/
ILTA Distinguished
Achievement Award Symposia
Abstracts
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Awards
CAMPUS MAPS
2nd
floor · Mario Laserna (ML) / registration, opening reception, auditoriums, WIPs, posters
5th
floor · Mario Laserna (ML) / pre-conference workshops, exhibitors, coffee breaks, lunch, terraces
6th
floor Mario Laserna (ML) / parallel sessions
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WELCOME MESSAGE
FROM THE ILTA PRESIDENT
¡BIENVENIDOS TODOS Y TODAS A COLOMBIA! The conference co-chairs Beverly Baker, Jee Wha
I am delighted to welcome you all to the 39th Dakin, Gerriet Janssen, Heike Neumann, and
Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) Isabel Tejada Sánchez have worked tirelessly
held for the first time ever in Latin America. The over the last year to assemble a stimulating
theme of the conference ‘Language Assessment program of workshops, symposia, papers, posters
Literacy Across Stakeholder Boundaries’ is and work-in-progress sessions, which tackle
particularly appropriate for a conference language assessment literacy from multiple
held in this new location, reminding us of the perspectives. ILTA is extremely grateful to them
International Language Testing Association for their efforts. Many presentations address
(ILTA)’s mission not only to share understandings the conference theme directly, attempting
and stimulate professional growth amongst its to define the scope of language assessment
members but also to cooperate with and learn literacy, to consider the extent to which it varies
from others in contexts very different from across contexts, to report on conceptions of
our own, including those where English is not assessment and assessment practices among
the primary language. I am particularly happy different groups and to document or evaluate
different approaches to sharing understandings
to recognize the Department of Languages and
or delivering assessment information to
Culture, here at Universidad de los Andes, for
users. Others contribute more broadly to our
the impressive investment they have made
professional knowledge by reporting on the
in ILTA’s mission: they have organized six
methodologies and findings of recent research
pre-conference workshops about the basics
on language tests designed for a range of
of language assessment supported by both
purposes and users. We particularly look forward
CaMLA and Goethe Institut. We also very much
to the Messick Award lecture by Stephen Sireci
appreciate the opportunity LTRC 2017 will
and the Davies lecture by Ofra Inbar-Lourie and
afford us to hear about local assessment and
thank our sponsors (ETS and the British Council)
evaluation issues from two invited speakers
for making these two events possible.
from Colombian universities, Ana María
Velásquez and María Lucía Casas Pardo. And we Note that if you are a first-time participant you
are particularly pleased to welcome the strong will find it helpful to attend Tuesday afternoon’s
contingent of Colombian and Latin American Newcomer Session (sponsored by the Language
participants at this conference. Learning and Testing Foundation) where you will
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ILTA provides many opportunities for
ILTA activities, including plans for future
professional growth in addition to our annual
conferences, at our Annual Business Meeting
conference. Our new ILTA website links you
from 12.20-2pm the same day, which I urge all
to a range of language assessment resources
members to attend. With a new management
including a Code of Ethics (translated into
company ILTA is well placed to develop a more
multiple languages) and the annually updated
active voice in language assessment issues
bibliography of testing publications and
world-wide and it is important that you play
doctoral dissertations (coordinated by Tineke
your part in discussing how our organization
Brunfaut). Some of these resources are available
might develop.
to members only, so if you have not joined our
organization already, now is the time! (http:// I look forward to greeting old friends and
www.iltaonline.com/page/MembershipPlans) meeting new colleagues here in Bogotá.
ILTA also funds assessment workshops and Cathie Elder
awards, with international testing agencies ILTA President 2017
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LETTER FROM LTRC
glimpse of these developments here in Colombia
with the invited plenary talks on Wednesday
CO-CHAIRS
morning given by Ana María Velásquez from
the Universidad de los Andes on Educational
challenges in Colombia: The role of language
On behalf of the co-chairs, welcome to the
learning in peace building and by María Lucía
39th LTRC, to Colombia, to the city of Bogotá,
Casas, Rector of the Institución Universitaria
and to the Universidad de los Andes campus!
Colombo Americana ÚNICA, Bogotá, Using
We are very excited about the 2017 colloquium
assessment to add value in higher education.
program, and especially the focus of extending
the conversation about language assessment We also hope that you will be able to enjoy
literacy across typical stakeholder boundaries the city of Bogotá while here. As with most
into new and different contexts. This discussion major urban areas in Latin America today, it
starts during the opening symposium Towards an is important to always move about the city
ILTA policy of assessment literacy, and concludes with a friend or colleague, take good care of
with Ofra Inbar-Lourie’s Davies Lecture, Language any personal items and valuables. With this in
assessment literacies and the language testing mind, we invite you to take advantage of the
community: A mid-life identity crisis? We are great attractions the city has to offer. Near
also extremely pleased to welcome Stephen G. the conference site, be sure to check out the
Sireci from the University of Massachusetts Gold Museum (el Museo de Oro), the Botero
Amherst, USA, as this year’s Messick Lecture Museum (la Donación Botero), and Monserrate
Award speaker with his talk How would Messick (Bogotá’s proud symbol with the white church
validate 21st-century language assessments? on top), or stroll through the historic district, la
Candelaria. In the recommended hotel district,
We are happy that LTRC 2017 comes to Colombia at
be sure to explore the incredible variety of
a very important time in its history with the current
restaurants that has made the city of Bogotá
peace process. It is our belief that a wide variety
one of the emerging culinary capitals of Latin
of stakeholders here in Colombia (politicians,
America. Whenever you move about the city,
educators, ex-combatants, and citizens in both
remember to always bring a sweater and water
rural and urban areas) are now particularly ready
bottle as it can get really cold quickly and we
to consider new conversations about important
are at a high altitude (Bogotá is one of the
themes such as education, additional languages,
highest capitals in the world).
and the role that assessment can play in the
educational process and political process of peace- Finally, we hope you will fall in love with
building. We also believe that it is vital that this Universidad de los Andes for its historical
conversation be bi- or multi-directional, such that campus, but also for its innovation and current
educational initiatives consider local conditions social relevance. We are deeply grateful for
and empower local actors to seek meaningful and the continued and fantastic support that
realizable outcomes. It is our hope that you get a the Universidad de los Andes has provided
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towards the realization of LTRC in terms of the Questions about anything? Ask any one of the
physical, human, and financial resources we professor-volunteers, student assistants, or
have been afforded. Most touching has been conference co-chairs wearing an orange name
the Department of Languages and Culture’s badge, and we will be glad to help.
commitment to LTRC: Along with CaMLA and
¡Bienvenidos a LTRC 2017! Es todo un gusto
the Goethe Institut, this department sponsored
tenerlos en casa y deseamos que disfruten este
six assessment workshops so that instructors of
congreso y que pasen una buena estancia en la
Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German,
ciudad de Bogotá.
Japanese, and Spanish as a foreign language could
Yours sincerely,
meet each other and then consider assessment
themes that are relevant for their teaching
The LTRC 2017 co-chairs
community. Be sure to walk around our campus,
take a ton of pictures, and learn more about what Beverly Baker, Jee Wha Dakin, Gerriet Janssen,
los Andes is doing (https://uniandes.edu.co/en). Heike Neumann, and Isabel Tejada Sánchez
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emotional development,
INVITED SPEAKERS
classroom social climate,
and citizenship education
programs. Her research is
Special Invited Plenary: Education, focused on examining the
Language, and Assessment in the relationship between the
classroom climate and socio-
Colombian Context
emotional development. Dr.
Velasquez has participated in
Wednesday, July 19th, 8:45–9:45
the design and evaluation of
the violence prevention program Classrooms in
Ana María Velásquez, Universidad de los Andes,
Peace (Aulas en Paz). Also, she has collaborated
Colombia
with the Ministry of Education of Colombia
1. Educational challenges in
and the Secretary of Education of Bogota, in
Colombia: The role of language
the development of citizenship competencies
learning in peace building
curricula and evaluation. She has been the author
Colombia is currently facing a postconflict context of several peer-reviewed and invited publications
that demands us to reconsider the purposes of on these topics and she participated as a co-
education in terms of the citizens our society editor of the book “Citizenship Competencies:
needs to rebuild peace. Among the various means From the standards to the classroom.”
we can consider to achieve this goal, one of them
is to widen the perspective of our citizens to
María Lucía Casas Pardo, Institución Universitaria
understand how we can live in dialog with our
Colombo Americana ÚNICA, Colombia
worldwide cultural differences, as well as learning
from the experiences of other cultures who have 2. Using assessment to add value in
faced similar postconflict challenges. Language higher education
learning and testing may play an important role
ÚNICA’s fundamental mission has been to
in this process, and this talk will present some
become the best teacher’s college in Colombia.
ideas on how second-language researchers and
From the day it began, we tackled this mission by
practitioners may contribute to this goal.
providing students from the most marginalized
Ana María Velásquez is an associate professor backgrounds—from all corners of the country—
and chair of the undergraduate program in with the opportunity to excel academically. After 13
the School of Education at Universidad de los years, ÚNICA’s pedagogical model and continuous
Andes, Colombia. She holds a B.A. in Psychology, assessment of both teachers and students has
an M.A. in Education from Universidad de los allowed us to become the top bilingual school and
Andes, and a Ph.D. degree in Developmental teacher college in the country. ÚNICA implements
Psychology from Concordia University, Canada. assessment tools that have given high-quality
Her areas of expertise are related to socio- results; this year our students ranked number one