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From http://www.iltaonline.com/LTRC/index.php/ltrc2017

39th Language Testing Research Colloquium
July 17–21, 2017
Universidad de los Andes
Las Aguas, Bogotá, Colombia
July 17–18 preconference workshops
July 19–21 39th LTRC
Theme: Language Assessment Literacy Across Stakeholder Boundaries

LTRC 2017 marks a milestone for the assessment community as the International Language Testing Association will meet for the first time in Latin America. LTRC 2017’s venue reminds us of the tremendous growth our field has experienced, in part from engaging with language testers in different contexts across a variety of language testing issues. Accordingly, as we explore different stakeholder territories, the theme of language assessment literacy (LAL) seems appropriate as we strive to build understanding among different stakeholders in an effort to learn from their perspectives and to generate new knowledge in LAL research.

While all proposals will be considered for LTRC 2017, preference will be given to proposals which highlight understandings of and tensions between the different skills, knowledge, and competencies of language assessment literacy as they interact with different assessment stakeholders—including the specialists themselves—in the ecologies of their particular contexts. Examples include, but are not restricted to:

•    language assessment research as related to language policy and policy makers;
•    validation research that includes bi-directional collaborations with assessment stakeholders;
•    assessment literacy in relation to the assessment of languages other than English;
•    investigations of the sociocultural context in relation to assessment literacy;
•    examinations of differential knowledge and assessment literacy needs of different stakeholder groups.

The proposal deadline is October 2, 2016.

View the full call for papers at http://www.iltaonline.com/LTRC/index.php/call-for-papers-2017