<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Perpetua,serif">Dear Colleagues,<br>
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We are delighted to announce the formation of the Test-taker Insights in
Language Assessment (TILA) SIG.</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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April 2021, with a mission to:</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Perpetua,serif">lead and support academic activities by
providing a forum to substantively and critically advance scholarship on
designing, developing, and using language tests and assessments that center the
voices of test-takers and language learners.</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Perpetua,serif">promote critical, grounded inquiry
orientations in language testing and assessment research through fostering
transdisciplinary, transnational collaborations.</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Perpetua,serif">increase public and academic
understandings of test-takers’ and language learners’ perspectives to the
benefit of test-takers through formal and informal meetings, presentations,
discussions, and publications.</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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alphabetically) by:  </span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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(Queen’s University, Canada)</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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Schissel (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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(Knox College, USA)</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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Guanfang Zhao (University of Macau, China)</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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This SIG is open to ILTA members. If you are not an ILTA member, please join
now. Looking forward to seeing you in the group.</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p>

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of Macau, China)</span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif"></span></p></div>