27.2479, FYI: The Paragon Research Grants

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2479. Mon Jun 06 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2479, FYI: The Paragon Research Grants

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Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:08:32
From: Zhi Li [zli at paragontesting.ca]
Subject: The Paragon Research Grants

 
Dear colleagues, 
This is a friendly reminder that the deadline of the Paragon Research Grants
is July 10, 2016. 

Paragon is pleased to announce the 2016 round of Paragon Research Grants. The
grants provide funding for research projects into Paragon’s tests:

- Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP,
https://www.celpiptest.ca/)
- Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) Assessment (https://www.cael.ca/)
- Language Proficiency Index (LPI, https://www.lpitest.ca/)
 
Research projects in the following areas are of particular interest.

Constructs
- Test-takers’ cognitive processes (e.g., test-taking processes in
reading/listening tests, composing processes in writing tests)
- Corpus-based analysis of test responses

Alignments
- Align Paragon’s tests to existing language frameworks e.g., Common European
Framework of Reference (CEFR) and Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB)
- Link Paragon’s tests to other tests

Test use and impact
- Test taker perceptions and experience
- Test score user’s needs analysis

Application of complex psychometric models to solve language assessment
issues.

Please visit https://www.paragontesting.ca/paragon-research-grants/ for more
details about applicant eligibility, application procedures, and evaluative
criteria. 

Inquiries should be emailed to research at paragontesting.ca. 
Thank you.
 
Zhi Li
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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