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From https://www.iltaonline.com/page/LTRC2020CallForProposals

42nd Annual Language Testing Research Colloquium
Assessment in multilingual contexts: models, practices, policies & challenges
Hammamet, Tunisia
9-13 June 2020

For many individuals and communities in our changing and globalized world, multilingualism has become the norm. The theme of LTRC 2020, “Assessment in multilingual contexts” attempts to tackle the many issues and challenges that we face as assessors of language ability in multilingual environments. Assessing this construct across multiple languages, for example, and doing so equitably, fairly and responsibly, is a complex institutional challenge; assessing the language competence of multilingual individuals is a similarly complicated undertaking. It requires not only test adaptation, but also innovation in test design, and novel views on how to tackle that challenge. How do language testers respond to the myriad of theoretical and empirical approaches that currently attempt to address these issues? How do language teachers cope with the assessment of multiple languages present in their classrooms? Why is it challenging for test designers to define the construct, to assess and to score language assessments in multilingual contexts? How do immigration officials or administrators, and immigrants and newcomers handle institutional language demands? How do we deal with high status languages that dominate those of lower status in institutional contexts? And what does all this mean for the assessment of language ability?

The aim of LTRC 2020 is to bring together researchers from around the world to address critical themes in assessment in multilingual environments. The organizers do not wish to limit potential contributions in any way with the few examples given here; they aim to have a diverse set of approaches to the models and the policies that may be adopted to solve this complex issue, and they therefore welcome a range of approaches for discussion at the conference. They also welcome papers and presentations on other topics in language assessment.

The call for proposals will close on Thursday, 15 October 2019.

View the full call for proposals at https://www.iltaonline.com/page/LTRC2020CallForProposals