Welcome!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,...

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Trip to MwALTTrip 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...

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

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

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AAAL (2013, Dallas, TX)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’...

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Reading Group

Either biweekly or monthly, LAL members and others interested in language assessments will get together to discuss assessment articles of interest and present recent findings. Meetings will be held in the Seminar room MM 317 on Fridays either at 2:30-4:00 or at 4:00-5:30PM. The schedule is as follows.

If you are interested in participating in the group, please email the lab director.

Time/Day

Topic

  2:30 – 4:00pm (Feb.8th )

 Article Review (Oral fluency measures) (Dr. Shin)

  4:00 – 5:30pm (Feb. 22nd)

 Issues in assessing L2 pragmatics

  4:00 – 5:30pm (Mar. 8th)

 AAAL 13 Conference presentation rehearsal: The influence of the learners’ L2 proficiency pairing on collaborative text reconstruction task outcomes (Dr. Shin & Ryan)

  4:00 – 5:30pm (Mar. 29th)

 Research talk: Examining Different Standard Setting Methods in an ESL Placement Test (Dr. Shin)

  4:30 – 6:00pm (April 5th)

 Meta-analysis (Ryan)

 

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