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IATEFL TESTING, EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP

TEA SIG Program - Thursday April 2nd, 2009 During the annual IATEFL Conference in Cardiff,

TEA SIG will have a day consisting of selected talks and an Open Forum for all who are interested. Please join us if you are in Cardiff.

We look forward to seeing you.

Predavanje:workshop Mick Sumbling & Pablo Sanz SIMTEST: a web-based component in an EFL

placement test battery SIMTEST is an online test that delivers C-tests and

multiple-choice items using computer-adaptive testing (CAT) technology as the first component of a placement test battery. Newly-enrolling students are classified in terms of CEFR levels before being placed on the most appropriate courses. This talk describes the use and advantages of SIMTEST in its institutional context at a university

Talk:

Zeynep UrkunAssessing a new writing task type: Short Answer Responses (SARs)This session will describe how the English Program of Sabanci University, School of Languages, developed a new writing assessment task for Short Answer Responses (SARs). I will explain how the new writing task was incorporated into the teaching program, how the assessment criteria were developed and implemented, and offer some practical suggestions to those wishing to follow a similar path.

IATEFL TEASIG PCECardiff, Tuesday 31 March 2009

‘Placement testing 30 years on’

Dave Allan & Tony Prince

KEY FACTORS IN PLACEMENT TEST DESIGN

VALIDITY RELIABILITY RANGE DELICACY LENGTH TEST ECONOMY DELIVERABILITY MARKABILITY

ADMINISTRABILITY FLEXIBILITY SUSTAINABILITY SECURITY COMPARABILITY CALIBRATION CURRENCY COST MARKETABILITY

Sheila ThornThe Listening Business

Real Lives, Real Listening: a new approach to listening practice

Reasons for supplementing coursebook listening passages with authentic listening materials

What is the purpose of classroom listening practice?

What makes listening to informal spoken English so difficult?

Bonny Norton: Literacy,Identity and English Teaching

HIV/AIDS by Penina Nafuye The following poem was shared by Bonny

Norton in her plenary on how “learner identities are

central in meaning-making.” It is from Penina Nafuye, one of the participants in here recent

work with learners in South Africa.

CREATING INTERESTING EXERCISES, AND MAKING BORING EXERCISES INTERESTING

GOODBYECardiff !!!