CRELLA Online Spring Research Seminar: Wednesday 22ndMay @ 10 am
Presenters: Prof Christine Goh, Jane Lloyd, Sathena Chan & Lynette May.
To book:
eventbrite.com/e/crella-sprin…
Tickets are free! Tony Clark CRELLA Chihiro Inoue

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….

Still time to sign up for talk UCL in Bloomsbury London tomorrow (Feb 6) by Tony Clark, head of #IELTS research Cambridge University Press & Assessment. #EAP #languagetesting UCL Applied Ling. BALEAP TAFSIG (Testing, Assessment and Feedback) BALEAP London Higher CLSS CRELLA. Book here. All welcome ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/202…

Thanks Talia Isaacs looking forward to it

The 2023 Caroline Clapham IELTS Masters Award winner is Shanshan He at Western University, Canada.

'Exploring the Use of Interactive Videos in an L2 Listening Test', was supervised by Dr Ruslan Suvorov. More info here: lnkd.in/gAttuKwz
Shanshan He Ruslan Suvorov

LTF 2023: How can we use Spoken dialogue systems to assesses oral communication for multilingual individuals?

UKALTA Tony Clark Emma Bruce Carolyn Westbrook Lynda Taylor Looking forward to seeing all my language testing friends 25-27 Nov in London. Free online event on Friday.
buytickets.at/britishcouncil…

We are recruiting survey responses from Academics on English Language Testing for HE entry. What do you understand these regimes to test? Do they help us understand student abilities & skills? Do they influence our pedagogical or assessment approaches?
cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1W…

A new UKALTA President's message (October 2023) has just been sent out, please check your spam folders if you have not received it.
Lynda Taylor
Tony Clark
Judith Fairbairn

This amazing view could also be yours next summer: Submit your proposal by November 14, 2023, and join us in the first week of July 2024 Universität Innsbruck @[email protected]!

uibk.ac.at/de/congress/lt…

Two exciting new funding opportunities:

UKALTA Student Travel Award 2023: ukalta.org/wp-content/upl…

UKALTA Grant Funding 2024: ukalta.org/wp-content/upl…
Lynda Taylor Judith Fairbairn Tony Clark Dr Elin Arfon (she/her) Dr Nathaniel Owen John Pill

🚨 Save the Date 🚨 If you're interested in language teaching & research, join ManMetUni Languages, online, on October 13th, for a free event on the teaching-research dialogue in English Language Teaching. We'll share the programme and registration details soon, so watch this space.

So, we’ve launched! Do share the link with anyone you think would find it useful. We’ve Clare Lynch, writer had great fun making it! We look forward to hearing what you think about it. More are in the pipeline! 👌

Another new briefing sheet is now available on the UKALTA Website. If you are interested in 'Multilingualism, Translanguaging and Assessment' have a look here:

ukalta.org/ukalta-reports…

Lynda Taylor Tony Clark Dr Elin Arfon (she/her)

Are you passionate about assessment?
Do you want the privilege of leading highly skilled experts?
Fancy working towards goals focused on purpose and public-service?

If so, check out this opportunity to join Department for Education & the senior civil service.
civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…

Cheating concerns lead to Universities of Edinburgh and Sussex no longer accepting PTE test scores via remote proctoring:

UK universities withdraw offers after Pearson cheating concerns (thepienews.com)