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LTRG 2011 - 2012 Programme

LTRG will meet on Thursdays, from 3.30 to 5.00 p.m.

The meetings will take place in Bowland North (except for week 1 which will be in B017 in the library). The seminar room numbers are indicated below. Rooms will be open 5 minutes before our start time, to allow presenters time to set up their presentations.

LTRG is open to staff members and PhD students in Term 1, and to MA students in Terms 2 and 3.

Staff and students working away from campus can attend the seminars on-line. Please contact Luke Harding (l.harding@lancaster.ac.uk) for details.

Term 2

Week	Date	Room	Presenter	Topic
1	19 Jan	Library B017	Various	Introductions and research plans for 2012
2	26 Jan	BN SR21	Zahra Al-Lawati	The use of the case study method in a language testing PhD
3	2 Feb	BN SR2	Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding	The use of visuals in listening tasks (discussion session)
4	9 Feb	BN SR5	Karen Dunn	Factor analysis and SEM: starting out and troubleshooting
5	16 Feb	BN SR21	---	---
6	23 Feb	READING WEEK
7	1 Mar	BN SR15	Luke Harding	The challenge of English as an International Language for language testing
8	8 Mar	BN SR21	Gareth McCray	Multilevel IRT in the explanation of cross-national and cross-linguistic DIF in reading comprehension in the PISA 2009 study
9	15 Mar	BN SR15	Charles Alderson & Tineke Brunfaut	Components of reading in first and second language, test item difficulty and overall reading ability
10	22 Mar	BN SR15	---	---

Term 1

Week	Date	Room	Presenter	Topic
1	11 Oct	22	Luke Harding	Defining the language assessment literacy gap: Evidence from a parliamentary enquiry
2	18 Oct	25	Charles Alderson	Towards a theory of diagnosis
4	1 Nov	25	Tineke Brunfaut and Andrea Révész	Judging the necessary information in listening items
5	8 Nov	12	Tineke Brunfaut and Andrea Révész	Judging the necessary information in listening items (Part 2)
7	22 Nov	Lancaster House	Whole group	Surprise party!
8	29 Nov	12	Gareth McCray	Eye-tracking as a research tool in reading comprehension
9	6 Dec	16	Karen Dunn	Explaining item difficulty with random item IRT models: An example using vocabulary test data

See the programme archive to see programmes from previous years.