2:00 - 4:00 pm - (Grant Hall 207)

Pre-symposium Focus Group Meeting (Online Assessment Tutorial )

The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is developing an online tutorial about assessment and would like your input.

Researchers from CAL will be conducting a focus group with language educators and testing specialists to gather feedback on the tutorial.  Symposium presenters and participants are invited to participate.

The focus group will take place Friday, April 25, 2008, during the afternoon before the Language Symposium 2008 at the University of Illinois-Chicago.  During the focus group, participants will review the online tutorial and provide input on its content and layout.

The session will last approximately 2 hours, and participants will be paid $75.

More details on the time and location will be announced in April. If you have questions, or are interested in participating, please contact Victoria Nier at the Center for Applied Linguistics.

Victoria Nier Center for Applied Linguistics vnier@cal.org (202) 355-1562

You must be pre-registered for the Focus Meeting to attend.

 

4:00 pm - (Grant Hall 205)

Video Conferencing Demostration

We will first show you the video conferencing equipment in our classroom, and then demostrate a real time call to Michigan State University's Language Center.

 

 

8:00 pm - (Grant Hall Foyer)

 

8:30 am - (Grant Hall Foyer)

Registration & Breakfast

 

 

12:30 Lunch - (Grant Hall Foyer)

 

1:30 - 2:00 pm Session 3 - (Lecture Center)

Concurrent: Assessing Language Skills: Reading, Writing, Speaking

1. Language Placement of Advanced L2 Readers: The Effects of Criterion- Referenced Self-Assessment (Abstract) Room F1
	Cindy Brantmeier Washington University in St. Louis

2. Evaluating Academic Summary Writing: An Analysis of Paraphrases and Holistic Rating (Abstract) Room F2
	Choon Kim St. Cloud State University

3. Do Online and In-class Oral Assessment Task Provide Complementary Information about Oral Achievement? (Abstract) Room F3
	Susanne Rott Adam Gacs University of Illinois at Chicago

 

2:00 Break - (Grant Hall Foyer)

 

2:15 - 3:15 pm Session 4 - (Lecture Center F1)

Assessing Pragmatics

1 . A Process-Oriented Online Pragmatics Test Module (Abstract)
	Dennie Hoopingarner Fei Fei Mchigan State University

 

Faculty Development

2. Understanding Assessment: A Guide for Foreign Language Educators (Abstract)
	Meg Montee, Colleen Gallagher, Victoria Nier, Margaret E. Malone The Center for Applied Linguistics

 

3:15 Wrap-up and Closing Reception - (Grant Hall Foyer)