Conference Schedule
Friday, April 12
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch Talk for Jewish Studies, Dr. Elana Shohamy
16:00 – 19:00	Registration
	Welcome
	Reception
	Saturday, April 13		Sunday, April 14
	7:30 – 8:30	Breakfast	7:30 – 8:30	Breakfast
Session 1	8:30 – 9:30	Kivik & Räsänen	8:30 – 9:30	Gentry
		Portfolio Assessment of Situated Interactions		Predictors of Oral Fluency in Japanese University Students
		Tolosa		Owusu
		Challenges of Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence in Multicultural School Classrooms		Evaluating the Content Validity of High-Stakes ESL Tests in Ghana
	9:30 – 9:45	Break	9:30 – 9:45	Break
	9:45 – 10:45	Richardson	9:45 – 10:45	Wang
		Enough is Enough: Using CRT to Demand an End to SEI		Test Washback of TOEFL Preparation Courses at an Intensive English Program
		West		Bustamante
		“I think my life was ruined”: Consequences of a University High-Stakes English Language Exam		Exploring Rater’s Self-Monitoring Behaviors: an Eye-Tracking and Stimulated Recall Study
	10:45 – 11:00	Break	10:45 – 11:00	Break
	11:00 – 12:30	Keynote: Shohamy	11:00 – 12:30	Keynote:  Fulcher
	12:30 – 13:30	Lunch	12:30	Lunch and Wrap-up Discussion
Session 2	13:30 – 15:00	Burch
		Please Read this Out Loud in English: Task Transition, Framing and Repair in Japanese OPIs
		Baig & Kley
		How Task Design Impacts Test Takers’ Topic Initiations in a Classroom Paired Speaking Test
		Kley, Kunitz & Yeh
		L1-L2 Speaker Interaction: Affordances for Assessing Repair Practices
	15:00 – 15:15	Break
Session 3	15:15 – 16:45	Song & Hsu
		The Effects of Test Takers’ Oral Proficiency on Their Role-Play Tasks and Face Validity in a Virtual Reality Interactive Speaking Assessment
		Hsu
		Validity of a Classroom-Based, Democratic Assessment: A Case of Oral Tests
		Takayama
		What Factors Influence Foreign Language Anxiety in Oral Assessment?
	16:45 – 17:00	Break
	17:00- 18:00	Chavez
		A Lexical Exam for Spanish College Classes (3rd Edition): A Developmental Project
		Zhi
		The Consequential Validity of Paper- and Computer-based ESL Writing Tests
	18:30 – 20:30	Dinner