English Profile Seminar no. 16

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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