2012 CRELLA Spring and Summer Seminars

CRELLA Summer Research Seminar

July 5th 2012

Download: Summer Seminar Abstracts - PDF 67.2 KB and Timetable - PDF 61.4 KB

Sanaullah Ansari (CRELLA)

The relationship of students' reading habits and lingual preferences to their cognitive processes and performance in English reading: a pilot study at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan.

Dr John Field (CRELLA)

Cognitive validity and the testing of language skills.

Shumaila Memon (CRELLA)

Relationship between Reading Attitudes in Home Language and Second Language in a Multi-Lingual context of Pakistan.

Nathaniel Owen (University of Leicester)

Enhancing validity through reverse engineering three tests of English as a foreign language: an evidence-centred approach.

Carolyn Westbrook (CRELLA / Southampton Solent University)

Investigating 'excessive assistance', plagiarism and washback in EAP writing.

Gareth McCray (Lancaster University)

Predictive models of reading comprehensive item difficulty.

CRELLA Spring Research Seminar

March 15th 2012

Abstracts - DOCX 39.9 KB

Dr John Field (CRELLA)

Cognitive validity and the testing of language skills - PDF 116.2 KB

Dr Tony Green (CRELLA)

Writing Assessment and washback - PDF 1.6 MB

Dr Fumiyo Nakatsuhara (CRELLA)

The role of listening in oral interview tests - PDF 165.4 KB

Professor Stephen Bax (CRELLA) and Daniel Waller (CRELLA and UCLAN)

Metadiscourse in learner writing

Professor Sara C. Weigle (Georgia State University)

Textual borrowing in integrated writing tasks: The rater's perspective - PDF 451.1 KB

address

Professor Tony Green
Director of CRELLA
University of Bedfordshire
Putteridge Bury
Hitchin Road
Luton, Bedfordshire
UK, LU2 8LE

tony.green@beds.ac.uk

telephone

+44 (0)1582 489086

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