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From http://beyondvalidity.rice.edu/call-for-papers/

 

The Center for Languages & Intercultural Communication at Rice University invites you to submit a proposal to the:

4th Annual CLIC Conference

Beyond Validity: Social and Ethical Consequences of Assessment

April 12 – 14, 2019

Houston, TX

 

The 4th Annual CLIC Conference focuses on the analysis of the social and ethical consequences of assessment practices in second language education, ranging from macro-level perspectives, such as language ideology, to micro-level perspectives, such as classroom interaction.

 

Proposals are invited to address work on language assessment in the following broad thematic divisions:

a) Theoretical frameworks for assessing social and ethical consequences of assessment;

b) Advantages and limitations of incorporating various layers of social context into the theoretical construct of L2 ability;

c) Social and ethical issues when tests use decontextualized language data, with limited regard to the actual language use by the target language communities;

d) Practical adaptations required to make general assessment frameworks (e.g., ACTFL, CEFR, TOEFL, Cambridge exams) viable for the evaluation of language ability at the local level;

e) Political connotations of the specific tests based on contextualized views of L2 competence.

 

The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2018.

 

View the full call for papers at http://beyondvalidity.rice.edu/call-for-papers/