Conference Program
Sessions will take place in the Gallery and the Pioneer Room at the Memorial Union on the Iowa State University campus.
| Friday, September 16, 2011 | |
| 11:00am – 11:30am | Registration (Gallery Room) |
| 11:30am – 1:00pm | TSLL Innovators’ Poster Session with refreshments (light lunch) (Pinoneer Room) |
| 1:00pm – 2:30pm | Automatic Evaluation of Writing (Gallery Room)Volker Hegelheimer, Ahmet Dursun, Zhi Li, Aysel Saricaoglu, & Hyejin Yang: The Use of Criterion as a Formative Assessment Tool in Second Language Writing Classrooms
Kirk Hagen: Computer-assisted Writing Assessment: The Constraints of Accreditation and Remediation Victor Santos, Marjolijn Verspoor, & John Nerbonne: How can machine learning help towards automated essay scoring? |
| 2:30pm – 2:45pm | Break (Gallery Room) |
| 2:45pm – 3:45pm | Gallery RoomPlenary: Sara Weigle Automated essay scoring in high stakes language testing |
| 3:45pm – 4:00pm | Break (Gallery Room) |
| 4:00pm – 5:30pm | Test Development (Gallery Room)Joan Jamieson, Jacqueline Church, & John Laird: Issues Developing a Semi-adaptive English Placement Test
Sun Joo Chung: Development of a Web-based Placement Test for International Students Erik Voss, Barbara Schwarte, Jarred Brinkmann, Jesse Patterson, & Kristi Ver Mulm: Confronting Development, Administration, and Technical Issues Involving Online Achievement Tests |
| 5:45pm | Reception and Dinner |
| Saturday, September, 17, 2011 | |
| 8:00am – 8:30am | Registration |
| 8:30am – 8:45am | Welcome to MWALT & TSLL: Carol Chapelle (Gallery Room) |
| 8:45am – 10:15am | Gallery RoomColloquium: Investigating Innovative Assessment Tasks (Lia Plakans)Elena Cotos: How Can Automated Feedback Enhance the Qualities of Formative Assessment? Cindra Visser: Considering the Use of Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) with ELLs Aurore Mroz: L2 Negotiation of Meaning in a Problem-based Virtual Learning Environment: A Mixed Methods Study |
| 10:15am – 10:30am | Break (Pioneer Room); Poster Setup (Sun Room) |
| 10:30am – 11:30am | Gallery RoomPaula Winke: Formative, Oral Assessments for Improving Self-regulation in the L2 Classroom
Yujie Jia: Investigating the Relationship between Self-assessment and Oral Test Performance Pioneer Room Chih-Kai (Cary) Lin: Examining the Association Between Content Standards and Academic English Language Proficiency Standards Anu Virkkunen-Fullenwider: Task-based LSP Testing in Universities |
| 11:45am – 12:15pm | Sun RoomPoster introductions |
| 12:15pm – 1:00pm | Discussion with Poster Presenters (Sun Room) |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Lunch and Poster time (Sun Room) |
| 2:00pm – 3:30ppm | Gallery RoomElena Cotos, Jing Xu, & Hye-won Lee: Revising an Oral Proficiency Interview Test for ITAs
Xiaoming Xi & Yoo-Ree Chung: Developing Grammar and Vocabulary Usage Features to Enhance an Automated Speech Scoring System Huei-Lien Hsu: The Impact of World Englishes on Language Assessment: Rater Perception Scale Pioneer Room Jesse Gleason: Mixed-Methods and Systemic Functional Grammar: Different Approaches to Evaluating Automated Oral Assessment Cristina Pardo-Ballester: Using Video in Web-based Listening Tasks Elana Spector-Cohen, Miriam Schcolnik, & Sara Kol: Reading Comprehension Tests on Screen: An Option?s |
| 3:30pm – 3:45pm | Break (Gallery Room) |
| 3:45pm – 4:45pm | Gallery RoomPlenary: Margaret Malone Innovative language tests: What the test-takers say |
| 4:45pm – 5:15pm | Awards and Business Meeting |
| 6:00pm | Reception and Dinner |
Posters for TSLL Innovators’ Session: Posters on the use of technology for second language learning and assessment. (11:30am -1:00pm, Friday, Sept. 16—No introductory comments; light, stand-up, walk around lunch available)
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- Eric Bodin, iPhone/iPod Touch Multimedia Flashcard Application for Pronunciation Practice [Video Preview]
- Elena Cotos, Sarah Huffman, Stephanie Link, & Todd Paden, SFL and Genre Analysis for Formative Assessment Technology [Video Preview]
- Helen Heaney, An Eco-friendly Reading Test at 800 wpm [Video Preview]
- Moonyoung Park, A Task-based Needs Analysis for Mobile-assisted Language Learning
- Jim Ranalli, Motivated Learning of L2 Vocabulary Depth-of-Knowledge Features: Self-regulation, appraisal, and self-assessment [Video Preview]
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MwALT Posters: Before lunch on Saturday (11:45am – 12:15pm)—with 3-minute introductions by presenters (Posters to be set up in Sun Room during the mid-morning break (10:15am – 10:30am))
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- Mark Chapman, Development of a New Trait in Second language Writing Assessment
- Ahmet Dursun, Assessing the Second Language Ability of Young Learners: Turkish English Teachers’ Assessment Purposes and Practices
- Stéphanie Gaillard, Yeon-Sook Yi, & Annie Tremblay, Implementing an Elicited Imitation Task as a Component of a Language Placement Test in French at the University Level
- Heesung Grace Jun, A Web-search-permitted Integrated ESL Writing Test: Processes, Products, and Perceptions
- Jia-Ying Lee, Reading Strategies for Multiple-choice Questions- Familiar vs. Unfamiliar Topics
- Ruslan Suvorov, Interacting with Visuals in L2 Listening Tests: Eye Tracking Study
- Yeon-Sook Yi & Stephanie Gaillard, Implementing Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment in an Institutional Test Through Collaboration of Language Testers: A New Networking Model in Language Testing
For further information about the conferences, contact Carol A. Chapelle (carolc@iastate.edu)
Note: Participants will have guest access to the ISU wireless network.