The 3rd International Conference on Language Testing and Assessment and the 5th British Council New Directions

in English Language Assessment Conference

Day 2, Sunday, 3 December 2017-Hyatt on the Bund

Location Session Time Event/Speakers

Foyer Reception 8:00-8:50 50 mins Registration

Opening 8:50-9:00 10 mins First Day Recap

Plenary 4

Plenary 4 9:00-9:45 45 mins JIN Yan, Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Grand
The interface between language teaching and testing: The role of local standards
Ballroom
Plenary 5

Plenary 5 9:45-10:30 45 mins Luke Harding, Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Language assessment literacy: Past, present, future

Lower
Break 10:30-11:00 30 mins Tea break @lower lobby Break&Learn: Now Screening! Assessment animated
Lobby
Room 201 - Assessment Grand Ballroom - Language Tearoom - Assessment Room 205 - Foreign Glass House - Assessment Room 206+207 - Artificial Room 208 - Foreign Language
Literacy for Language Teachers Proficiency Frameworks Literacy for Language Language Testing for Literacy for Language Intelligence and Testing for Admissions and Exit
11:00-11:55 55 mins Teachers Employability Teachers Technology in Language Tests in Education Systems
Testing
Joseph Davies, Business Development Judith Fairbairn, Productive Skills Philip Horne, Assessment Johanna Motteram, CHEN Qiuxian, Associate Professor, LIN Hui, Co-Founder and Chief Jason West, Head of English, SHU UTS
Lead, University of Central Lancashire’s Testing Researcher, British Council, Solutions Consultant, British Teacher, Assessment Shanxi University, China Scientist, Liulishuo, China SILC Business School, China
School of Language and Global Studies, United Kingdom Council, China Specialist, British Council,
China Singapore Teachers and the implementation of Large scale adaptive language Connecting the Dots with Aptis testing
Developing rating scales for the A validity case for procedural formative assessment in local settings: testing via artificial intelligence insights
Grading class participation: Perception productive skills using the CEFR assessment literacy for EFL Employment in the UK, A multiple case study
and practice of ELTs in China teachers in China IELTS writing, and
11:00-11:25 25 mins Philippines trained nurses Co-Presenter:
Co-presenter: ZHANG Jiajin, Associate Professor,
Laura Davies, Programme Leader, Shanxi University, China
University of Central Lancashire‘s
franchised BA(Hons) International
Business Communication Programme,
Meeting Break-out China
Rooms Sessions
ZHOU Jiming, English Language LI Hang, Associate Professor, School Robin Skipsey, Academic LUO Lan, PhD Student, Michelle Raquel, Senior Lecturer, HE Xiaoyang, Product Manager in Suchithra Nair, Lecturer, Universiti
Teacher, Fudan University, China of International Studies, Zhejiang Manager, English for Education School of International Centre of Applied English Studies Language Assessment Department, Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
University, China Systems Japan, British Council, Studies, Zhejiang University, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Foreign language Teaching and
Assessing oral presentations in English Japan China Research Press, China Design, development and implementation
classrooms: Teachers’ and students’ Developing a rating scale for the Assessment literacy profile of tertiary of a university exit test
criteria cognitive diagnostic assessment of Teaching how to rate the A study on the effect of level course coordinators The development of an online
Chinese college EFL learners' writing productive skills: Case study classroom-based diagnostic assessment system for Co-presenter: Saidatul Akmar
proficiency from Japan assessments on medical Co-presenters: senior high schools in China Zainal Abidin, Associate Professor,
students’ EMP learning Simon Boynton, Lecturer,Centre for Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
11:30-11:55 25 mins Co-presenter: Applied English Studies, University of
Judith Fairbairn, Productive Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Skills Testing Researcher, British
Council, United Kingdom Bernadette Wo, Lecturer, Centre for
Applied English Studies, University of
Gordon Allan, Trainer of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
English, British Council, Japan

Hotel
Lunch 12:00-13:30 90 mins Lunch break
Restaurant

Room 201 - Measuring Teachers'
13:30-14:55 85 mins
Language Teaching Proficiency
Grand Ballroom- Language
Proficiency Frameworks
Room 205 - Foreign
Tearoom - Language
Language Testing for
Proficiency Frameworks
Employability
Glass House - Foreign Language Room 206+207: Artificial Room 208 - Foreign Language
Testing for Admissions and Exit Intelligence and Technology Testing for Admissions and Exit
Tests in Education Systems in Language Testing Tests in Education Systems
 Le Duy Hai Nguyen, Lecturer, Binh
Duong University, Vietnam
Measuring teachers’ English proficiency:
Reviewing a project in Vietnam
13:30-13:55 25 mins
ZOU Shaoyan, Lecturer, Qingdao
Agricultural University, China
Rating scale impact on the scoring of
CET4 writing: A mixed-method study
Co-presenter:
WANG Jun, Doctoral Student,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Thomas Garside,
Director of Teacher Training,
Trinity College London, Hong
Kong
Application of the sociocognitive
framework in contemporary
testing
Mike Mayor, Director, KONG Jufang, Teacher, Foreign
Global Scale of English, Languages College, Zhejiang Normal
Pearson English, United University, China
Kingdom
Assessing young English learners in
Creating a proficiency China: Cognitive validity re-examined
framework for the workplace
Co-presenter:
PAN Mingwei, Associate Professor,
Applied Linguistics, Guangdong
University of Foreign Studies, China
GU Xiangdong, Professor, PhD GUO Fengping, Lecturer, Southeast
Supervisor and Director, Chongqing University, China
University, China.
An investigation of the use of Aptis for
Analysing and predicting English EFL placement decisions in tertiary
majors’ TEM-4 performance in education
China
Co-presenter:
Co-presenters: ZHONG Yu, YANG Maoxia, Vice Director of the
PhD Candidate, Chongqing Testing Centre, Southeast University,
University, China China

MENG Yao, Data Scientist, Alibaba

Corporation, China

ZHOU Qing, Professor, College of

Computer Science, Chongqing
University, China

QU Xin, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Mohd Sallehhudin Abd Aziz, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Quynh, Alan Urmston, Assistant Ali Van Moere, Chief Product Officer, CHEN Jing, Associate Professor, HUANG Dafu, Professor of Applied
Beijing Foreign Studies University, China Associate Professor, School of Director of the Center for Professor and Assessment MetaMetrics, United States School of Foreign Languages, Sun Linguistics and Dean of College of
Language Studies and Linguistics, Language Testing and Coordinator, English Yat-sen University, China Humanities and Social Sciences,
Validation of ELT certificate-LORT: A Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Assessment, University of Language Centre, Hong Understanding the reading demands Southern Taiwan University of Science
process suited for many-facet Rasch Malaysia Languages and International Kong Polytechnic University in an English medium instruction Re-fitting text complexity for testing and Technology, Taiwan
modeling Studies, Vietnam National Hong Kong program reading: Introducing a data-driven
CEFR in Malaysia: Current issues and University, Vietnam approach Developing Global English Test as a
Meeting Break-out
Co-presenter: challenges in the implementation of Investigating the writing Co-presenter: learning and exit measure for Taiwanese
Rooms Sessions HAN Baocheng, Deputy Director of the the framework Test quality improvement ability of graduates and Richard Spiby, Test Development Co-presenters: FENG polytechnic university students
National Research Centre for Foreign guidance for VSTEP test writers employees of an Asian Researcher, Receptive Skills, British Pengpeng, Associate Professor,
Language Education, Beijing Foreign Co-presenter: university Council, United Kingdom School of Foreign Languages, Sun
14:00-14:25 25 mins Studies University, China Nurul Farehah Mohamad Uri, Yat-sen University, China
Lecturer, Universiti Kuala Lumpur Co-presenter:
British Malaysian Institute, Malaysia Michelle Raquel, Senior GUO Kai, MA Student, School of
Lecturer, Centre of Applied Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao
English Studies University of Tong University, China
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
JIN Tan, Associate Professor,
School of Foreign Languages, Sun
Yat-sen University, China

Sayyed Mohammad Alavi, Professor of ZHAO Wen, Professor of English, Daniel Bates, English Lecturer, Tomoyasu Akiyama, MIN Shangchao, Associate XU Yong, Associate Professor, Jamie Dunlea, Senior Researcher for the
Applied Linguistics, University of Tehran, Northeastern University, China Visiting Faculty Member, Asia Professor, Bunkyo Professor, School of International English Language and Literature, Language Assessment Research Group,
Iran University, Japan University, Japan Studies, Zhejiang University, China Shanghai International Studies British Council, United Kingdom
Calibrating the CEFR against the University, China
Language teachers’ listening China's Standards of English for The use of language proficiency Rater cognition: Impacts of Retrofitting an in-house English A closer look at two tests aligned with the
comprehension diagnostic competence in college English vocabulary education descriptors for pronunciation rater differences on teacher listening test for diagnostic purposes Algorithm to predict item difficulty of CEFR
TBLT in China assessment employment examinations MCQ grammar assessment
Co-presenter: Co-presenters:
Co-presenter: Co-presenters: XIONG Lidi, Postgraduate, School of Co-presenter: SHANG Richard Spiby, Test Development
14:30-14:55 25 mins
Tina Mirmotahari, Teacher Trainer, WANG Boran, Professor of English, International Studies, Zhejiang Shanshan, Associate Professor in Researcher, Receptive Skills, British
University of Tehran, Iran Northeastern University, China University, China School of Business and Council, United Kingdom
Management, Shanghai
LI Xin, Associate Professor of English, International Studies University, Quynh Nguyen Thi Ngoc, Director of the
Northeastern University, China China Center for Language Testing and
Assessment, University of Languages and
International Studies, Vietnam National
University, Vietnam

Lower
Break 15:00-15:30 30 mins Tea break @lower lobby Break&Learn: Now Screening! Assessment animated
Lobby

Panel Discussion 2: Artificial Intelligence in Language Assessment

Panel:
Helen Yannakoudakis, Senior Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Panel
Grand 15:30-16:40 70 mins Alistair Van Moere, Chief Product Officer, MetaMetrics, United States
Discussion
Ballroom WEI Si, Vice Director of iFLYTEK Research, iFLYTEK, China
LIN Hui, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Liulishuo, China
Chair: Barry O’Sullivan, Head of Assessment Research and Development, British Council, United Kingdom
Closing 16:40-17:00 20 mins Closing Ceremony