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📢 We're organising the Language Testing Forum 2025 at the University of Southampton.
📝 Submit your abstracts by 11 July 2025!
👉 For more information, please visit the LTF2025 page: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n... #LTF2025 #languageassessment
April 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
taliaisaacs.bsky.social
Open call to submit a proposal to guest edit a special issue of #LanguageTesting in 2027. All topics related to #languageassessment welcome, inc interdisciplinary ones. Deadline: Feb 20. Instructions:
journals.sagepub.com/page/ltj/spe.... Previous special issues: journals.sagepub.com/page/ltj/col...
December 6, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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Our recommendation for #OAWeek addresses anyone interested in #LanguageAssessment:

@dima403.bsky.social, Matthew Poehner and Ari Huhta collected the latest research on dynamic and diagnostic approaches to language assessment: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783111233918/html#bibliographicData
Book cover of "Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment" edited by Dmitri Leontjev, Matthew Poehner, and Ari Huhta.
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
pamlab.bsky.social
New paper alert: congrats to Profs. @cbchang.bsky.social, Sunyoung Ahn & Youngjoo Kim on the publication of "LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency"! 🎉🎉

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

#OpenAccess #Korean #LanguageProficiency #LanguageAssessment #langsky 🐦🐦
LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency - Behavior Research Methods
To facilitate objective measures of proficiency for language users of diverse backgrounds, recent research in second language acquisition and multilingualism has developed short, yet reliable, tests o...
link.springer.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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SALT Vol. 26, Issue 1 features a forum on “Expanding Constructs in Second Language Assessment,” introduced by Soo Hyoung Joo and Daniel Eskin.

Read the forum introduction here: journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/SA...

#AppliedLinguistics #TESOL #LanguageAssessment #openaccess #TeachersCollege
July 24, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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✨Welcoming everyone to the Fall 2025 CALA Conference at Mount Saint Vincent University! A day of meaningful connections, learning, and celebrating research on language assessment🧡📘 #CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #Duolingo #DuolingoEnglishTest #LanguageAssessment #CELPIP #toefl #academicresearch
October 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
duygucandarli.bsky.social
Happy to share my new article, out in Language Assessment Quarterly!
A corpus-based multimodal analysis of written assignments: Implications for L2 multimodal writing task design and assessment
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1543...
#l2writing #multimodality #languageassessment @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Screenshot of an abstract of the article titled ‘A corpus-based multimodal analysis of written assignments in the target language use domain: Implications for L2 multimodal writing task design and assessment’
December 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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✨ Welcome to Day 2 of the Fall 2025 #CALA Conference 💙📚

Get ready for another great day full of exciting presentations!!

#CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #Duolingo #DuolingoEnglishTest #LanguageAssessment #CELPIP #toefl #academicresearch
October 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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🧠✨ Exploring the intersection of Educational Psychology and language learning at #CALA2025!
Emma Becker presented “Aligning Social-Emotional Learning theory, evidence, and assessment for EAL learners: A scoping review of Canadian evidence.” 🇨🇦

#MSVU #EAL #Social-EmotionalLearning #LanguageAssessment
October 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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#openaccess

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For #SLP #SLT #bskyseechies 😃 Did you know a fully normed (18-47 months) Language Use Inventory (LUI) in Portuguese is available here at no cost! languageuseinventory.com/translations

#languageassessment #pragmatics #toddler #preschooler
Current practices of Portuguese speech-language pathologists with preschool-age children with pragmatic impairment: A cross-sectional survey | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge Core
Current practices of Portuguese speech-language pathologists with preschool-age children with pragmatic impairment: A cross-sectional survey - Volume 52 Issue 2
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February 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
taliaisaacs.bsky.social
Contribute to this groundbreaking issue of #LanguageTesting on humanising practices in #languageassessment, co-edited by a fantastic cast of guest editors: @jlschissel.bsky.social, Angel Arias, Mohammed Kazemian-Sanati & Donather Magabe. Final call for abstracts
langtestjournal.bsky.social Language Testing @langtestjournal.bsky.social · Aug 19
Reminder: Abstract proposals for the Language Testing 2028 Special Issue are due on September 1st: journals.sagepub.com/page/ltj/cal...
August 19, 2026 at 4:51 PM
taliaisaacs.bsky.social
Job alert: Associate Professorship in #AppliedLinguistics #TESOL at UCL-IOE in London

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Priority areas include but not limited to
#LanguageTeaching #LanguageLearningTechnology #CALL #EdTech #LanguageAssessment #LanguageTesting #MaterialsDevelopment #ResearchMethods #SLA
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 30, 2026 at 3:54 PM
profilejournal.bsky.social
📖In the new issue!
🔎This study examines the experiences of five Colombian English teachers and calls for context-sensitive LAL courses that bridge communicative assessment and institutional requirements.
📄https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v28n2.124263

#ELT #LanguageAssessment #TeacherEducation
July 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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🚨 Final call!

7 days remain to apply for the Oxford Test of English Learner Corpora Research Competition.
Don’t miss the chance to publish your research and win an iPad Air.

Deadline: 31 July 2026

Apply today: oxford.ly/3RakidZ

#LanguageAssessment | #OTELC | #ResearchOpportunity
Last chance to enter the Oxford Test of English Learner Corpora Research Competition by 31 July 2026 to win an iPad Air. OUP.
July 24, 2026 at 4:00 PM
castledown.bsky.social
📏 Are English tests in Indonesian schools measuring what matters?

🔍 New review reveals weak validation & low expert input—raising key concerns.

🔗 lnkd.in/gx2HhrEn

#LanguageAssessment #EFLIndonesia #EdResearch
July 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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⏳ Just 1 month to go!

Dream of publishing your research and winning an iPad Air?

Submit your proposal to the Oxford Test of English Learner Corpora Research competition!

Apply now: elt.oup.com/feature/glob...

#LanguageAssessment | #OTELC | #ResearchOpportunity
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May 5, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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📢 Don’t miss out!

The Oxford Test of English Learner Corpora Research Competition is open.

Master’s students—your chance to:

✔ Publish your research
✔ Win an iPad Air
✔ Access learner data

📅 Deadline: 31 May 2026

🔗 Details: oxford.ly/4bgBYuc

#LanguageAssessment #OTELC
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March 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Less than 1 week left!

On 15 Feb, we launch a research competition for master’s students in linguistics & language assessment. A chance to get your research published – and win an iPad Air!

Don’t miss out!

#LanguageAssessment #OTELC #ResearchOpportunity
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February 11, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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What would you do with access to authentic learner data? Find out soon!

📅 Details coming 15 February 2026

#LanguageAssessment #OTELC #ResearchOpportunity
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February 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Attention master’s students in linguistics & language assessment! An exciting research opportunity is coming soon…

📅 Save the date: 15 Feb 2026
Stay tuned! #LanguageAssessment #OTELC #ResearchOpportunity
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January 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
citizenptnewsco.bsky.social
Colorado's House Education Committee is taking a bold step to reshape how we assess multilingual learners, especially those newly arrived from Ukraine, addressing critical gaps in our education system.

Learn more here

#CO #InclusiveEducation #EducationAccess #LanguageAssessment #CitizenPortal
Education officials discuss testing strategies for multilingual learners from Ukraine
Officials address language assessment challenges for students newly arrived from Ukraine.
citizenportal.ai
March 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
langtestjournal.bsky.social
The 2 systematic reviews embody two encouraging developments that strengthen reporting standards in #systematicreview & #metaanalysis research. 1) Both publications conduct evaluations of #methodologicalquality, which is rare in #appliedlinguistics & #languageassessment research.
April 8, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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Coming soon! Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior/Distinguished Threshold (Bella Cohen)

msipressblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/comi...

#languagelearning #languageteaching #languagetesting #languageassessment #nearnativelanguageproficiency
Coming soon! Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior/Distinguished Threshold (Cohen)
News about MSI Press authors; Excerpts from MSI Press authors' books; Carl's Cancer Compendium information; tips for authors
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March 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Coming soon! Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior/Distinguished Threshold (Cohen)

msipressblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/comi...

#languagelearning #languageteaching #languageassessment #foreignlanguages #books
Coming Soon! Second Edition of Diagnostic Assessment at the Superiod/Distinguished Threshold
News about MSI Press authors; Excerpts from MSI Press authors' books; Carl's Cancer Compendium information; tips for authors
msipressblog.blogspot.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Oregon City School District is tackling the critical challenges of language assessment for English learners, ensuring no student is misidentified and all receive the support they truly need.

Read the full story

#OR #LanguageAssessment #StudentEngagement #DiverseNEeds
District focuses on language support and assessments for English learners
Kelly addresses strategies for improving language support and assessment challenges in schools.
citizenportal.ai
February 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM