This is an excellent development by Language Testing. Clear guidance on the preparation and reporting of systematic reviews, including pre-registration on IDESR.org, quality appraisal, open data, and adherence to PRISMA.

Link to new Language Testing #systematicreview guidelines (part of author submission guidelines) journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmsc…
Generating & refining these a team effort. Thanks Ruslan Suvorov, Xun Yan, Sofya Styrina, Hamish Chalmers, Dr. Vahid Aryadoust & Sin-Wang Chong. Hope authors find them useful

#LanguageTesting has published new author guidelines on #SystematicReviews , including #metaanalysis #bibliometric & other forms of #evidencesynthesis to drive up reporting standards. Highlights: PRISMA flow diagram& checklist, appraisal of methodological quality, #preregistration

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Job opening UCL IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society for Associate Professor in Communication, with background in an area related to #communicationstudies , to lead a new BA. Some focus on language for specific purposes in program (eg #healthcommunciation ). Deadline May 29 2024. ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

New CUP Linguistics book 'Assessment for #LanguageTeaching ' free to download until May 20 2024. Congrats to Authors Aek Phakiti & Constant Leung and Series Editors Heath Rose & Jim McKinley. A welcome addition to bolster teachers' #assessmentliteracy . cambridge.org/core/elements/…

For IOE students, the IOE Doctoral Student Conference will take place at IOE Thursday July 4th from 1 to 9pm - sign up moodle.ucl.ac.uk/mod/forum/disc… Come and hear about other students' research or present about your own
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.Language Testing has published its 1st #openaccess #peerreview report w/consent of all authors, reviewers & editors in pilot for special issue on #openscience . Thanks Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social & Benjamin Kremmel @benjaminkremmel.bsky.social for groundbreaking initiative. Access article HTML to read reviewer comments

Cambridge Elements in Language Teaching series new title free download until 20th May!

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'Assessment for Language Teaching'

by Aek Phakiti (University of Sydney) and Constant Leung (King’s College London)

Now available in Online First, Salomé Villa Larenas (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) reviews From Assessment to Feedback by Inez De Florio.
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Now available in Online First, Shungo Suzuki and Judit Kormos examine L1 Japanese fluency measures as predictors of the corresponding L2 English measures in an argumentative task and explore the extent of cognitive fluency scores as a moderating factor.

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Now available in Online First, Junlan Pan 盘峻岚 and Emma Marsden (@UniOfYork) present the preliminary results from the initial validation of Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL), an open research instrument for measuring language learning aptitude.
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Now available in Online First, Suh Keong Kwon (Chinju National University of Education, Republic of Korea) and Guoxing Yu (School of Education | University of Bristol) investigate the effects of visual cues in a video-based listening test on the performance of English learners in Korea.
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Early bird registration is open until May 15 for LTRC 2024! Join us in Innsbruck, Austria, July 1-5. To register, visit our website! rb.gy/m44t1y #LTRC2024 #ILTAOnline

Discover the power of young voices with @thekidstrial! This enlightening video, narrated by a child #PPI partner, unpacks what it’s all about. Please watch, share, and help us spread the word to parents everywhere! Please…. #ChildAdvocacy

Many thanks for sharing our latest paper with Judit Kormos. We examined how L1-L2 fluency link can change in accordance with L2 proficiency. The answer is, “it depends on how you measure it” and we should be aware of complex processes behind L2 fluency. #OpenAccess

The Caroline Clapham IELTS Masters Award 2024 is now open. Applications should be submitted by 30 June, 2024. Emma Bruce Nick Saville IELTS Official

For further details, please visit: ielts.org/for-researcher….

'We are perhaps best known for our work in education, but we also have an extensive portfolio of research on mental health and wellbeing, health promotion, health inequalities, and health policy.'

Meet Jeff Bezemer, IOE Vice Dean Health: ucl.ac.uk/health-of-publ…

Last chance to sign up to be randomly matched with UCL Coffee Connect programme participants! 🌍

Since 2020, thousands of UCL alumni and students have made new connections through UCL Alumni's programme - from Boston to Brazil, and from Tokyo to Tooting.

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Rankings are rankings but the best part of working IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society UCL is the human resource-outstanding students & colleagues. For our UCL Applied Ling. community, a dynamic hub. Within that #languagetesting on the map, inc. w/recent addition of David Wei Dai
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