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8:00 - 8:30
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Registration
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8:30 - 8:45
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Opening Remarks
Antony John Kunnan, CSULA
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8:45 - 9:30
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Guest Speaker
Lynda Taylor, University of Cambridge Local Examinations
Syndicate
"Cambridge EFL Examinations :
Research and Practice"
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9:30 - 10:00
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Greg Kamei, UCLA
"An Exploratory Validation
Study of a Test of Oral Proficiency in Japanese for Business
Purposes"
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10:00 - 10:30
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Beryl Meiron, CSULA
"Rating Oral Proficiency
Tests: An Exploratory Triangulated Study of Rater Thought
Processes"
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10:30 - 10:45
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Break
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10:45 - 11:30
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Guest Speaker
Frances Butler & Robin Stevens, UCLA Center for the
Study of Evaluation, Graduate School of Education &
Information Studies
"The Validation of Second
Language Proficiency Descriptors for Writing"
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11:30 - 12:00
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Martha Inez Castellon, UCLA
"Content Based Assessment in
Sheltered 7th Grade Social Studies Classrooms: The Potential
Impact of Student Preferred Accommodations on Large Scale
Performance Assessments for Language Minority
Students"
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12:00 - 12:30
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Yoon-kyung Kecia Yim, CSULA
"The Relationship between Grammar
and Communicative Competence"
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12:30 - 1:45
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Lunch
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1:45 - 2:30
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Guest Speaker
Peter Lowenberg, San Jose State University
"Testing English as a world
language: The significance of non-native varieties"
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2:30 - 3:00
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Ashley Myoung-Soon Paik, CSULA
"Construct Validation of the
Reading Comprehension Test Investigated by Item level
Analysis and Test Taking Process"
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3:00 - 3:15
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Break
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3:15 - 3:45
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Mikyung Kim, UCLA
"Assessing Korean Oral
Proficiency of Korean-American Children in the
Korean/English Two-Way Immersion Program"
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3:45 - 4:30
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Closing Panel
Bachman, Butler, Lowenberg, Kunnan, Taylor
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