Friday 6 February 2015 9:15am to 4:00pm
Cass centre, Cambridge University Press
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Time | Presenter | Presentation |
9.00-9.30 | Registration and coffee | |
9.30–9.45 | Nick Saville | Introduction and welcome |
9.45– 10.15 | Andrew Caines and Calbert Graham | The automatic assessment of spoken language |
10.15–10.45 | Øistein Andersen, Ted Briscoe, Ronan Cummins, Helen Yannakoudakis, Menglin Xia, and Meng Zhang | Improving Cambridge English Write and Improve: Benchmarking writing assessment and formative feedback to CEFR levels: Part I |
10.45-11.15 | As above | Part II |
11.15-11.30 | Coffee | |
11.30-12.00 | Sarah Grieves, Laura Grimes and Samantha Owen | New projects from the Language research team at Cambridge University Press |
12.00–12.30 | Brechtje Post | Assessing L2 pronunciation: Distinguishing features at different proficiency levels |
12.30-13.00 | Anne O’Keeffe and Geraldine Mark | Update on the (completed) EGP |
13.00-14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00-14.30 | Paul Seedhouse | The IELTS Speaking Test: Interactional Design and Practice in a Global Context |
14.30-15.00 | Joe Sheils | An update from the Council of Europe on RLDs |
15.00-15.30 | Mike McCarthy | Teaching Grammar at the Advanced Level. |
15.30-16.00 | Milos Jakubicek and Jan Michelfeit | Sketch engine update |
16.00-16.15 | Ben Knight | Wrapping up |
Contact
Julia Harrison