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The CRELLA Research Centre at the University of Bedfordshire is pleased to announce the CRELLA Summer Research Seminar on Thursday July 5th, 2012 at the Putteridge Bury campus on language testing and assessment.
The event is free. If you would like to attend please email Dr. Stephen Bax stephen.bax@beds.ac.uk so we can plan numbers.
Timetable:
Dr John Field (CRELLA)
Cognitive validity and the testing of language skills
Dr Tony Green (CRELLA)
Writing Assessment and washback
Dr Fumiyo Nakatsuhara (CRELLA)
The role of listening in oral interview tests
Professor Stephen Bax (CRELLA) and Daniel Waller (CRELLA and UCLAN)
Metadiscourse in learner writing
Professor Sara C. Weigle (Georgia State University)
Textual borrowing in integrated writing tasks: The rater’s perspective
Timetable:
Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller (University of Reading)
Vocabulary size revisited: an analysis of work knowledge of undergraduate students and its relationship with academic achievement.
Dr Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
Lexical Concreteness and text difficulty
Michael Corrigan (CRELLA and ALTE Validation Unit/Cambridge ESOL)
Comparability of tests linked to the CEFR: the meaning of the link.
Dr Lynda Taylor (CRELLA)
Exploring readers’ mental representation of text
Joanna Bhatti (CRELLA)
The communication of emotions in England and Poland: compliments and refusals
Jamie Dunlea (STEP-Society for Testing English Proficiency) Japan
Analysing the vocabulary of a university entrance exam
Research seminar 2011 -
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Abstracts in full -
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Timetable:
Sathena Chan (CRELLA)
Investigating the cognitive validity of EAP reading-into-writing test tasks. A pilot study. [pdf]
Laurence Kinsella (CRELLA)
To what extent and in what ways does an intensive programme of targeted intentional vocabulary instruction impact on the development of reading proficiency?
Chihiro Inoue (Lancaster University)
Task Parallelness: Investigating the Difficulty of Two Spoken Narrative Tasks.
Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
Using eye-tracking technology to research onscreen reading tests.
Hussain Sivardeen (CRELLA)
Mission impossible? Vocabulary acquisition in beginners engaged in extensive reading of unsimplified English material.
Professor Liz Hamp-Lyons (CRELLA and University of Nottingham)
The role of the construct in writing assessment project design. . Download -
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Discussion and roundup
For CRELLA research students only, there was an extended workshop session on the use of SPSS
Timetable:
Dr Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
Eye tracking in researching reading
Andrew Marunchak (University of Hertfordshire)
Exploring Second Life and Real-Time 3D as a Platform for Education in the 21st Century
Dr John Field (CRELLA)
Better listeners versus more listening: rethinking the Comprehensive Approach
Dr John Kullman (Canterbury Christ Church University)
The Materials World: Culture and the English language textbook in the 21st Century.
Dr Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
Eye tracking technology in understanding cognitive processes in reading
Deng Jie (Hunan University, China)
Validation in Language Assessment
Timetable:
Fumiyo Nakatsuhara (CRELLA) and Ryo Nitta (Nagoya Gakuin University, Japan)
Pre-task planning effects on beginning learners
Daniel Waller (University of Central Lancashire)
Examining timed-essay scripts at B2 and C1: Why look at discourse?
Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
Lexical concreteness and text difficulty
Jenny Lu (University of Southampton)
Cognitive factors in timed essay writing
Tony Green (CRELLA)
Crafting level descriptors for English Profile
Julie Norton (University of Leicester)
Performing Identities in Speaking Tests: Co-construction Revisited
Timetable:
Laurence Kinsella (CRELLA)
Accelerated vocabulary acquisition and the development of reading skills
Serge Korevaar (via Skype from Saudi Arabia)
The impact of Computer Interface Design on Test Takers and Test Results of a L2 Reading Test
Claudia Saraceni (CRELLA)
An investigation of the role of Aesthetic Response in the reading of narrative literary texts
Daniel Waller (CRELLA)
An empirical investigation into the features of exam-produced written discourse at levels B2 and C1 of the Common European Framework through the Lancashire Examination Board ESOL tests
Sathena Chan (CRELLA)
An investigation into the composing processes in writing-only and reading-to-writing computer based test tasks: computer-assisted episode analysis and stimulated recall
Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
Discourse and genre at levels C1 and C2 of the Common European Framework
Qian Zhang (CRELLA)
Using Mixed Research Methods to identify students’ language learning motivation change
Discussion and Roundup
Dr. Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
12th May 2010
Many countries around the world are now attempting to teach content subjects such as maths and science through English, in what are known as bilingual or immersion programmes. This talk will discuss a recent research project evaluating the effectiveness of such programmes in Thailand, Indonesia and Korea. It will consider the research methods appropriate to such an evaluation, and will then discuss the different ways in which each country approaches bilingual and immersion programmes, as well as the key factors which appear to influence the success of such programmes.
Dr Alejandro Armellini, Senior Learning Designer, Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester
10th March 2010
This research talk considered how social, teaching and cognitive presences, as defined by Garrison and Anderson (2003), may be created and identified in the Second Life (SL) 3D multi-user environment in Higher Education (HE). Using research data from in-world sessions in different disciplines, we map the criteria associated with each of the three presences against the learners’ and facilitators’ use of text, audio, visuals and in-world avatar behaviour. The talk will conclude with discussion of the work of 'The Beyond Distance Research Alliance' at the University of Leicester, which provides the evidence to bring innovation in learning technology and learning design into the mainstream, research to practice. The talk will be of interest to anyone who might wish to use Second Life in an educational environment, as part of a face-to-face course or as part of distance education.
Dr. Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
24th February 2010
This talk discussed approaches to researching the use of technology in language education, starting with discussion of a developing theoretical framework for evaluating and understanding the use of technology in language education, and then evaluating examples of computer software and internet resources for language education, including wikis and Hot Potatoes software, in the light of this framework.
Sarojinik Krishnan (CRELLA)
20th January 2010
Sarojinik Krishnan, one of our PhD students then spoke about her research project "Modelling Academic Reading" with UK undergraduates.
