26.4354, Calls: Applied Ling/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-4354. Mon Oct 05 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.4354, Calls: Applied Ling/USA

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:36:07
From: Tyler True [aelrcevents at georgetown.edu]
Subject: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics

 
Full Title: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 
Short Title: GURT 2016 

Date: 11-Mar-2016 - 13-Mar-2016
Location: Washington DC, USA 
Contact Person: John McE. Davis, Tyler True
Meeting Email: aelrcevents at georgetown.edu
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/gurt2016/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2015 

Meeting Description:

GURT is an annual international conference hosted by Georgetown University that deals with different issues and approaches to language each year. GURT 2016 focuses on the uses for assessment and evaluation in relation to language learning and teaching, with a primary emphasis on how assessments and evaluations are designed to maximize their usefulness as well as how the uses of assessment and evaluation impact a variety of stakeholders.

2nd Call for Papers:

The Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center at Georgetown University and the Center for Applied Linguistics would like to announce that 
the deadline for abstract submissions for GURT 2016: Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education has been extended to Saturday, October 31. 

GURT 2016 is seeking proposals for papers, posters, colloquia, or works-in-progress that address the theme, “Useful assessment and evaluation in language education” and relate to any of the following topics:

- Language program evaluation at work: Uses, frameworks, methods, examples
- Learning-oriented assessment: Design and validation for use in language classrooms
- Student learning outcomes assessment: Accreditation, accountability, and improvement
- Assessment consequences: Investigating the impact of assessments on language learners, teachers, schools, communities, and societies
- Validity evaluation: Determining and improving the quality of assessments in use
- Social dimensions of language assessment
- Assessment innovations for testing new constructs and meeting new demands

The Call for Papers and more information is available at our website: https://sites.google.com/site/gurt2016/submission.




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