Theme: Multimodal Constructs in Language Assessment in a Digital Age

On 25-27 November 2022, the School of Education is hosting the 42^nd annual Language Testing Forum (LTF), chaired by School of Education's Professor Guoxing Yu.

The theme of the conference is “multimodal constructs in language assessment”. LTF is a long-running UK-based language testing and assessment conference, inaugurated in 1980. Since 2016, LTF has been the official conference of UKALTA  (UK Association for Language Testing and Assessment).   

Multimodal integrated tasks are being used increasingly in language assessment, facilitated by technology in task design, delivery, and completion. Integrated multimodal language assessment tasks are traditionally defined and operationalised with reference to the requirement of different language skills in task completion. With the use of technology, we see an expansion of constructs of language assessment, with multimodal input (e.g., non-verbal materials such as cartoons, maps and graphs, and videos in listening and speaking tasks) and multimodal composing and presentation (e.g., by creating a video, drawing a picture, a map, or an outline to summarize what test-takers have read/listened).

Bristol hosted the 20^th and 32^nd annual LTF in 2000 and 2012 respectively. We are expecting a full house at LTF2022, with attendees from over 15 countries. It’s especially exciting to be able to come together face-to-face once again since our last gathering in November 2019.

At the 42nd Language Testing Forum, we are also planning to celebrate the contributions Professor Liz Hamp-Lyons made to language assessment, especially in writing assessment. We are also very excited to welcome back Professor Jennifer Rowsell to deliver our Cyril Weir Lecture - Unsettling Language Acquisition: Towards Multimodal Approaches to Language Development.  

Please see the LTF 2022 programme (PDF, 3,729kB) for further details.

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