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Language Testing: May 2013
How better to welcome this year's late Spring than with a new Feature? This month we have a guest feature, the centrepiece of which is a video lecture by Dr Geoff Jordan. The topic is Second Language Acquisition Research and Language Testing. Language Testers often ask this question: "What can we get from second acquisition to help with test design and construction?" The answer never appears to be clear. In this feature Dr Jordan gives us a tour of current SLA theory, and attempts to show us why.

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Conferences: A call for proposals has been made for MWALT 2013. There is also a call for proposals from JLTA 2013, with a deadline of 2nd June. Also a call for ECOLT 2013, with a deadline of 13th June.
Awards: Time for applications for the Caroline Clapham MA Award, for students completing their studies in the last year. Deadline for submission is 30th June.
Coming Soon: The next podcast will feature Ofra Inbar on Assessment Literacy. Two features are in preparation. One on the multiple-choice item type, and why it's still so popular, and the other on language testing as social science. Not sure which one will arrive first!

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Second Language Acquisition Research and Language Testing.
Click on the 'Features' link to see selected topics that have previously appeared in the features slot. These are changed up to four times a year, providing short pieces on subjects of interest to students of language testing and assessment.

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Testing and assessment is serious because it can affect the lives of test takers, institutions, and society. But like all human and social activities, there is a humorous side as well. So after all the heavy stuff in the rest of this website, you may enjoy looking at testing in a rather different way, in the humour page, where you'll find video, audio, cartoons and other fun stuff related to testing and assessment.

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