Welcome! 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,...
Trip to MwALT
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...
SLRF
Dr. Shin and Ryan Lidster presented their work, “Dictogloss as dynamic assessment?” at Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)...
ECOLT
Dr. Shin presented his recent work, “Examining Different Standard Setting Methods in an ESL Placement Test” at East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT)...
AAAL (2013, Dallas, TX) 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’...
We are currently working on the following language assessment projects:
1. Dictogloss as a dynamic assessment tool
2. Oral fluency development and measures
3. E-portfolio as a research and assessment tool
