Schedule

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