Technology for Second Language Learning (fwd)

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Technology for Second Language Learning
3rd annual conference
Assessment Issues
Friday, September 30, 2005
Memorial Union, Iowa State University

Keynote speaker
Professor J. Charles Alderson, Lancaster University, UK.

In conjunction with the conference of the Midwest Association of 
Language
Testers (MWALT), where Susan Nissan, test developer extraordinaire at 
ETS,
will be a guest speaker talking about the new internet-based TOEFL.

We invite proposals for papers addressing the issues associated with
assessment of language learning through technology and assessment of
technology for second language learning. The following questions 
illustrate
some of the themes at the intersection of TSLL and assessment:

      * How can assessment of learning goals be conducted in CALL 
programs?
      * How does the use of assessment in CALL affect students' learning?
      * How can researchers assess the quality of the experience learners
engage in for language learning when they use CALL?
      * How does the use of technology for second language learning
challenge assessment practices?
      * How can concepts and methods from assessment help researchers to
interpret data about performance on technology-assessed second language
learning tasks?

Papers will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes for discussion. Please
submit a 200-word abstract to Volker Hegelheimer (volkerh at iastate.edu) 
by
July 1, 2005. Please include your name, address, phone number, email
address, and Web page address. You will be informed about acceptance by
July 20, 2005.

Hosted by the Program in Teaching English as a Second Language/Applied
Linguistics, Department of English, and the CALL Club, Iowa State
University, Ames, Iowa

More info available at:
http://www.iastate.edu/~apling/conf/tsll/2005/cfp.html



Volker Hegelheimer, Ph.D. (UIUC, 1998)
TESL/Applied Linguistics Program
Department of English
341 Ross Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

Phone: (515) 294-2282 (office)
Fax:   (515) 294-6814
E-mail:volkerh at iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~volkerh/