Language Assessment Lab

AAAL (2013, Dallas, TX)

Sunyoung Shin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:29:48 +0000

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.

Spring 2013 LAL Meeting Schedule

Sunyoung Shin — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:56:43 +0000

All the meetings will be held in the Seminar room MM 317.

S	Date	Time	Topic
1	Feb 8^th	2:30 – 4:00pm	Article Review (Oral fluency measures) (Dr. Shin)
2	Feb 22^nd	4:00 – 5:30pm	Issues in assessing L2 pragmatics
3	Mar 8^th	4:00 – 5:30pm	AAAL 13 Conference presentation rehearsal: The influence of the learners’ L2 proficiency pairing on collaborative text reconstruction task outcomes (Dr. Shin & Ryan)
4	Mar 29^th	4:00 – 5:30pm	Research talk: Examining Different Standard Setting Methods in an ESL Placement Test (Dr. Shin)
5	April 5^th	4:30 – 6:00pm	Meta-analysis (Ryan)
6	April 19^th	cancelled	cancelled

ECOLT

Sunyoung Shin — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:11:08 +0000

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.

SLRF

Sunyoung Shin — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:51:22 +0000

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

Trip to MwALT

Sunyoung Shin — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:37:34 +0000

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!

Sunyoung Shin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:38:39 +0000

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.