Webinars

Thank you for attending our series of Pre-Conference webinars. The aim of the webinars was to explore the themes of the Conference and introduce some of the main speakers and presenters that will join us in July, connect colleagues and exchange information and ideas.

If you missed them out, you can find the recordings of the webinars here: 

Podcasts

Through these short, interesting and informal podcasts we’d like to share views and opinions on different aspects of Language Assessment Literacy. 

The basis of the Podcasts are some of the questions we received during the three pre-conference webinars. The questions are important and we did not want to leave them unanswered. The questions provide a wonderful springboard to thinking about the main themes of the conference. The podcasts contributors are professionals and practitioners who work in the field of language testing and assessment who have been kind enough to share their thoughts with us. 

We’d like to thank both the participants of the webinars for their questions and the contributors for their time in engaging with this activity.

Listen here the views and opinions from experts about your questions:

  1. How effective is classroom assessment in teaching and learning of English?
    Listen to the answer of Tony Clark
  2. Is assessment for learning the same as formative assessment?
    Listen to the answer of Carolyn Westbrook
  3. What advice do you have for teachers trying to learn about the CEFR?
    Listen to the answer of Jane Lloyd 
    Listen to the answer of Jamie Dunlea
  4. How can context-independent CEFR be operationalized into a specific context?
    Listen to the answer of Jane Lloyd 
    Listen to the answer of Jamie Dunlea
  5. What new considerations inform assessment rubrics for remote language learning?
    Listen to the answer of Jamie Dunlea
  6. Can the CEFR be used to motivate learners? How does it benefit learners?
    Listen to the answer of Jane Lloyd 
    Listen to the answer of Sian Morgan 
    Listen to the answer of Jamie Dunlea
  7. Please can you suggest some alternative asessment ideas and how they can be implemented.
    Listen to the answer of Carolyn Westbrook
  8. How do you deal with the interlanguage problems of A2, and B1 level learners while assessing the production skills of them in terms of communicative language assessment?
    Listen to the answer of Jamie Dunlea
  9. Have you got any idea of supporting language assessment literacy in big groups? (40 or more students)
    Listen to the answer of Jane Lloyd 
    Listen to the answer of Richard Spiby
  10. Can you give examples of synchronous and asynchronous assessment
    Listen to the answer of Jane Lloyd
  11. I'd like to know how to assess writing through WhatsApp
    Listen to the answer of Jamie Dunlea
  12. How can we work inclusion practices in English Language Assessment?
    Listen to the answer of Richard Spiby
  13. How can students be assessed virtually?
    Listen to the answer of Richard Spiby
  14. What do you think is the role of local assessment policies (i.e. those mandated by national educational offices) in developing LAL? What is their role in language assessment in general?
    Listen to the answer of Jamie Dunlea
  15. Should assessment literacy be an obligatory part of all TEFL/CELTA/MA in TESOL and other such qualifications?
    Listen to the answer of Tony Clark
  16. What can be done to encourage higher education entities to address more responsibly the problem of initial or in service training for language assessment?
    Listen to the answer of Tony Clark 
    Listen to the answer of Radosveta Valkova
  17. What is the difference between evaluating, assessing and testing?
    Listen to the answer of Jane Lloyd 
    Listen to the answer of Karen Dunn and Carolyn Westbrook
  18. Are exams necessary in Elementary? 
    Listen to the answer of Jane Lloyd

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