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A new President's message (August 2024) has now been sent out, please check your spam folders if you haven't received it. Lynda Taylor Tony Clark Dr Nathaniel Owen Catherine Hughes

Pleased to have a UKALTA presence at this year’s BAAL conference to help strengthen the bridge between AppLing and LTA. ⁦UKALTA⁩ ⁦BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics⁩

Final keynote of BAAL 2024. Looking forward to hearing Bonny Norton share her thoughts on stories and multilingual identities. ⁦UKALTA⁩ ⁦ILTAonline⁩ ⁦BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics⁩

Outstanding and inspiring talk by Bonny Norton on the power and impact of storybooks in promoting social justice worldwide, esp among lang learners and teachers. V grateful to learn more about this amazing project! ⁦UKALTA⁩ ⁦ILTAonline⁩ ⁦BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics⁩

New information about the UKALTA Student Awards and the UKALTA Grant Funding is now available here: ukalta.org/ukalta-awards-… Lynda Taylor Dr Nathaniel Owen Tony Clark Catherine Hughes @santiblestari

.UCL Applied Ling. UCL ALTIC Society UCL PaLS PPG UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Brain Sciences UCL Cognitive Neuroscience Masters English Language & Applied Linguistics at UoR CRELLA UKALTA King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures Warwick Applied Linguistics Department of Education, University of Oxford BBK - Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics Linguistics@QMUL British Council Cambridge University Press & Assessment Trinity College London Language Sciences BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics Language & Linguistics @ UoY

Looking forward very much to LTF in November - UKALTA’s annual conference. The event has a strong EDI focus this year and will include a separate pre-conf workshop plus the UKALTA AGM (more details of both to follow on the UKALTA website shortly). See you there? 😊UKALTA

Hard to believe it’s already been a year since we lost Tim from our LTA community. 😔 Glad Tim’s ‘voice’ and legacy live on in contributions such as these… thanks to all authors and editors involved. 👏John Pill @KellieMFrost Susy Macqueen Jason TestJournal UKALTA

Rethinking policy and practice for English in complex linguistic landscapes: Sub-Saharan Africa UKALTA

A new President's message is now available, if you haven't received it please check your spam folder. Lynda Taylor Tony Clark Dr Nathaniel Owen

September 26 marks the annual European Day of Languages, celebrating & encouraging language learning for life.🙌 UKALTA aims to promote good quality language testing & assessment in support of language teaching & learning for all. 💬 ✍️ UKALTA BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics #EuropeanDayOfLanguages

It’s been great to work alongside BAAL colleagues over recent months to nurture EDI leadership skills in our respective domains. This 2nd of our 2 w/shops will address issues in the field of lang testing and assessment. Looking forward to it! UKALTA BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics Academy of Social Sciences

We’re finally under way with our conference presenting case studies on CEFR alignment - in beautiful Barcelona! Over 110 delegates from at least 24 countries across 3 continents. Lots to share and learn together over the next 2 days... ⁦UKALTA⁩ ⁦ILTAonline⁩ ⁦

Day 2 of the CEFR Alignment conference in Barcelona: exploring the future with the affordances of EdTech. How can AI support alignment projects? ⁦UKALTA⁩ ⁦ILTAonline⁩

Some excellent posters on display during the CEFR Alignment conference in Barcelona this w/e - as well as some fascinating presentations from all around the world. Thanks to all contributors to this great event - such a vibrant community! ⁦UKALTA⁩ ⁦ILTAonline⁩

So how did delegates feel at the end of our 2-day CEFR Alignment gathering in Barcelona…? Good outcome! 😊 ⁦UKALTA⁩ ⁦ILTAonline⁩

Don’t forget to register for Language Testing Forum (22 to 24 Nov) by 7 November! store.beds.ac.uk/conferences-an… Also sign up for a free pre-conf. workshop on EDI: forms.gle/XaLMYKxMhwkEtZ… Timetables with more info: beds.ac.uk/crella/seminar…

Really good to see this open & thoughtful debate in the LTJ SI on the potential affordances and constraints of OS in our field. Looking forward to seeing more discussion of some complex angles & issues we still need to consider. 🧵 1/2 UKALTA ILTAonline Language Testing

A new President's message is now available, if you haven't received it please check your spam folder. Lynda Taylor Tony Clark Dr Nathaniel Owen

Language Testing Forum programme out now: ukalta.org/ltf-2024/ CRELLA Chihiro Inoue @Sathena_Chan Tony Clark