The Social and Educational Impact of Language Assessment

A major multilingual event open to all professionals with an interest in language assessment and associated issues.

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English (PDF 347kb), Spanish (PDF 272kb) & German (PDF 262kb)

Welcome

The Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) is holding its 3rd International Conference at the University of Cambridge, hosted by the University of Cambridge  ESOL Examinations.

The conference theme, The Social and Educational Impact of Language Assessment, makes this key, multilingual event form a bridge between the world of language assessment and educational, social, cultural and economic environments and contexts.

Language assessment has an impact on the whole of society: the plenary speakers – leading experts in language assessment – will deliver a series of keynote papers drawing these elements together.

These speakers, together with papers and forums, will create a dynamic convergence of ideas where these links will be explored, and exciting connections and breakthroughs in understanding happen.

ALTE Cambridge 2008 represents a unique opportunity to take part in this interchange of ideas, to meet with other experts in the world of language assessment and linguistics:  to learn, to share and to develop our knowledge.

ALTE Cambridge 2008 will be of interest to anyone concerned with language testing and its impact, and is of interest and importance to anyone working in the following fields:

• Applied linguistics
• Language teaching
• Educational policy and regulation
• European language policy
• Social policy and regulation
• Migration policy and regulation
• International business

Programme

The theme of the conference is The Social and Educational Impact of Language Assessment. The plenary papers will anchor the theme of the conference. Other papers will develop this theme and the major topics:

• Language Assessment for Teaching and Learning
• Language Assessment and Intercultural Dialogue
• Language Assessment: Impact and Stakeholders

There has been an unprecedented response to the Call for Papers, with submissions received in German, English, Spanish, French and Italian.

The provisional programme is now available.

Any enquiries relating to the provisional programme should be forwarded to the ALTE Secretariat (alte2008@ucles.org.uk).

In support of the International Year of Languages 2008