American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2013, Dallas, TX

Dr. Shin, Ryan, and our former LAL members Stacy and Rebecca presented their recent research project on The influence of the learners’ L2 proficiency pairing on dictogloss test outcomes at AAAL 2013 in Dallas, TX.

Dr. Shin presented his recent work, “Examining Different Standard Setting Methods in an ESL Placement Test”   at East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT) held in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Shin and Ryan Lidster presented their work, “Dictogloss as dynamic assessment?” at Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) held in Pittsburgh, PA.

We Language Testing Lab folks went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to attend the annual MwALT conference held on October 5-6th.

The theme of the conference this year was: “Inferences and Actions in Language Testing.”

Welcome to the website for the Language Assessment Lab at Indiana University.

Directed by Dr. Sun-Young Shin, the Language Assessment Lab (or LAL) is devoted to the understanding and advancing of theory, research, and practice in second/foreign language assessment used for intended decisions to be made at a variety of educational and societal settings.

We are primarily interested in exploring the effects of different test methods on test performance, standard setting, validity issues in EAP assessments, oral fluency measurement and development, and program evaluation.