<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Edling Student Members:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2163" dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Midwestern Association of Language Testers (MwALT) is pleased to announce the <b class="">MwALT Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Language Assessment Research</b>. The award is to recognize research that has been carried out by a graduate student in a master’s or doctoral program. Students are encouraged to submit papers that investigate any area of language assessment that involve quantitative and/or qualitative analysis, such as data-driven empirical work or conceptual work (e.g., a literature review, meta analysis, etc.). <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2149" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2150" class="">Projects may address world languages, less-commonly-taught foreign languages, or English as a second or foreign language. The project may have been carried out in the context of a graduate-level course or may be from an original independent project conducted for academic credit (e.g., a course project, a qualifying research paper, a dissertation pilot study). The project must be in final form as a written paper at the time of submission. Research projects not eligible for this award are doctoral dissertations, projects directed by faculty, or papers co-authored with faculty. <br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2800" dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2801" dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Submissions are due by <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2820" class="">May 31, 2017</b>, and the award will be given out at the annual MwALT conference. See the call for papers and the rubric for more information at the following site: <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2153" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2154" class=""><a href="http://mwalt.msu.edu/awards/" class="">http://mwalt.msu.edu/awards/</a><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2155" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2156" class="">Thank you so much, and we look forward to receiving your submissions!<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2157" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2158" class="">************<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2159" class="">Hyun-Sook Kang<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2160" class="">Associate Professor<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2161" class="">Department of English<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490813474771_2162" class="">Illinois State University</div></div></body></html>