Educational materials related to language assessment.

A free educational event giving the latest findings and insights into English language assessment.

Comprehensive audit of IELTS special arrangements highlights fairness, accessibility, and inclusion for test-takers with disabilities or special…

While many writing studies to date show that higher-proficiency and lower-proficiency L2 writers have distinct writing behaviours, there is relatively…

Language assessment literacy is a crucial, evolving skillset with implications for administrators, instructors, and students. This chapter examines assessment

BAAL TEASIG 2025 Reading conference - Constructs in language assessments: evolution or revolution?

The English Language Testing Society (ELT Society) is proud to announce the Teachers’ Assessment Literacy Enhancement (TALE) Project as the recipient of the inaugural Promotion of Language Assessment ...

The notion of grammatical metaphor (GM) (Halliday, 1985) is essentially where a writer can shift an action or quality into being a ‘thing’. As in most…

Advancing Language Testing Research Through Research SynthesisDr. Sathena Chan, Associate Professor of Language Testing, University of BedfordshireTime: 10:00–11:10 AM (London) | 5:00–6:10 PM (Beijing), 5/9/2025 (Friday) | Time Zone ConverterThis talk explores the role of research synthesis (RS) in advancing language testing research, highlighting its potential to consolidate findings across language testing studies and to direct future research in the field. Research synthesis, when conducted properly with a systematic framework with rigorous selection and evaluative criteria, provides valuable evidence-based synthesis of findings and methods to help researchers minimise the risk of “research waste” (Isaacs & Chalmers, 2023) and to inform decisions to more efficient use of resources. RS also has a role in providing enhanced accessibility of the main developments of language testing to a wider range of practitioner audiences. The speaker will introduce main types of RS (Plonsky, 2024) and share a recently developed tool SMART (Chong, 2025) which highlights important considerations when conducting RS in applied linguistics. The speaker will also discuss some directions for RS in language testing.Sathena Chan is Associate Professor of Language Testing at CRELLA, University of Bedfordshire. She has been the recipient of over 35 research grants and consultancy project commissions. Her research can be seen in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in edited volumes and two books published by Cambridge University Press. She is the founding and co-editor-in-chief of Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics.

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Recognizing the importance of mastering the English language and its potential to enhance the country's socioeconomic status, Malaysia has dedicated efforts to improve the language proficiency of its...

Future of English Symposium Japan: Online EMI Communication in University Classrooms