Great event in Prague last week

Excellent and thought-provoking start to LTF2022 - thankyou @drjenrowsell . Lovely to be able to gather again in person after a 3-year break. Looking forward to a stimulating and enjoyable weekend with language testing colleagues. UKALTA

Exploring hybrid marking for a computer-based speaking test at LTF, Bristol 2022

Some very moving tributes this afternoon at LTF2022 as we recalled with admiration & gratitude the enormous contribution to our field of our colleague, mentor and friend - Liz Hamp-Lyons. Pioneer and trailblazer in so many areas… missed but fondly remenbered. UKALTA

Congratulations also go to Alexander Black of UCL who received the #LTF2022 Best Poster award (sponsored by TextInspector) for his study of assessment washback/impact in public universities in Oaxaca, Mexico. Well done! UKALTA

Emma and Reza from the IELTS Research Group present preliminary findings about at-home test delivery (newly launched IELTS Online) at New Directions in Language Assessment, East Asia 2022

The hidden face of public language policy: a case study from the UK tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Pleased that this article with Emma Humphries from Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Promoting Language Policy project now out open access!

Multilingual tongue twister #challenge 2022 How many tongue twisters, in at least 3 different languages, can you manage in 1 minute? We have received over 150 submissions. Some are very good. Check them out here: edl.ecml.at/Activities/Mul…. A big THANK YOU to all participants!

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Caroline Clapham IELTS Masters Award winner 2022, well done Juliana! cambridgeenglish.org/news/view/cana… Juliana Bahia Nick Saville 雯雯❤吉林-(兼职|学生|约炮|上门)永吉县 UKALTA

Three jobs in language testing/assessment: Emerging Researcher (British Council) careers.britishcouncil.org/job/London-Eme… Senior Research Manager (Cambridge University Press & Assessment) careers.cambridge.org/jobs/vacancy/s… Lecturer in Language and Education (University of Bristol) bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta…

Great to see articles synthesizing research in self-assessment in language learning & assessment. Many studies are small-scale, different learning contexts & proficiency levels, so this is much needed! cambridge.org/core/journals/… An important contribution as is Li & Zhang (2021).

Hearing about the Assessment of Swiss German Sign Language

Featured speaker - Huu Nguyen describing the foreign languages policy in Vietnam.

Busy day at LTRC 2023. Recognise any names on the programme?

We’d love to hear more about your experiences with generative AI. Take part in our Cambridge research study and help shape the future of English language teaching and learning. Complete our online survey: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/genAIinteach… The survey will be open until 15th July.

Two new briefing sheets now available on the UKALTA Website: ukalta.org/ukalta-reports… What is language testing? Dr Nathaniel Owen Artificial intelligence (AI) in language assessment Nick Saville Lynda Taylor Tony Clark Dr Elin Arfon (she/her) Fiona Orel

Talking to language teachers at LEND about ways to use AI to integrate learning and assessment. Demo of W&I. writeandimprove.com

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We are so proud that our Growth Monitoring Study from the plains of Nepal has contributed to this amazing piece of work on stunting just out in NATURE!! 👇