Seminar on Standards for English and Other Foreign Languages
in APEC Economies
Keynote Research Presentations
Case Study Presentations
Collaborative and Panel Discussion Notes
Keynote Research Speakers |
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Dr. Gary Buck, currently Director of the Testing and Certification Division, of the ELI, at the University of Michigan, is an applied linguist with a strong assessment background. His career in second language education began with ten years of teaching experience in Japan. At the University of Lancaster, his Ph.D. research focused on the testing of second language listening comprehension; his subsequent book Assessing Listening Comprehension is the standard reference on this topic. Dr. Buck has been active in research and direction of testing programs for the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Defense Language Institute. He has published extensively on assessment related issues, and been honored by TOEFL and ILTA for his contributions to the research literature in this area. |
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Professor David Ingram is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the University of Melbourne and Director of a private language centre in Brisbane, Australia. He also co-directs his language testing organisation, ISLPR Language Services. Previously he taught in Primary and Secondary Schools 14 years, in teacher education (14 years), before founding three university language centres from 1986 to 2003 in Griffith University, after which he became Executive Dean of Melbourne University Private’s School of Applied Language Studies and a Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne.
He has extensive experience in consultancies in second language education and has published extensively, especially in the areas of language policy, curriculum design, methodology, and language testing. He was one of the developers of the IELTS Test and was IELTS Chief Examiner (Australia) for 10 years. He is the co-author of the International Second Language Proficiency Ratings (ISLPR). In 2003, he was appointed a member of the Order of Australia for service to education through the development of language policy, through assessment procedures for evaluation of proficiency, and through research and teaching. |
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Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communication at the City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Lin has conducted research for SCOLAR (Standing Committee on Language Education and Research, Hong Kong SAR Government) on monitoring and evaluating Hong Kong’s Native English Teacher (NET) scheme and has designed and written English curriculum materials for newly arrived children (NAC) in primary schools in Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada in 1996. Since then she has been on the cutting-edge of research in sociocultural theories of language communication and education, new media communication studies, critical discourse analysis and language planning in postcolonial contexts. She is the first Hong Kong scholar to work on developing inter-disciplinary approaches to second language education through drawing on cultural studies, multi-literacies theories, and language and identity research in developing innovative language teaching methodologies. She is the first Asia-based scholar elected as Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and has served on the editorial boards of TESOL Quarterly, Linguistics and Education, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, and Pedagogies and-International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. |
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Dr. Mark Moulton is a psychometrics researcher at Educational Data Systems in the USA. A graduate of the "Chicago school" of Psychometrics, Dr. Moulton has applied Rasch models to fields as diverse as program evaluation, economic forecasting, audio perception, and educational testing. For four years, he has served as a principal designer and psychometrician for the California Reading First evaluation and is familiar with the issues surrounding the measurement of elementary school English Language acquisition. His special expertise is in the area of multidimensional IRT models, having applied his
own multidimensional software, NOUS, to the problem of equating local
assessments. |
| Case Study Speakers |
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New Zealand: Dr. Rosanne Parsons
New Zealand’s Story: The Three-Step Approach to Setting Standards for Languages |
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Thailand: Dr. Arunee Wiriyachitra
English Learning Standards for Thai University Students: From Policy to Practice |
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Korea: Dr. Sunhee Choi
Standards for Language Teachers in Korea |
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Indonesia: Ms. Asri Widiapsari
Let’s Do It Together: A Pilot Project of English Teacher Empowerment through e-Learning in Malang |
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Thailand: Dr. Jirada Wudthayagorn
Development of the English Standardized Test for Thai Teachers |
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Chinese Taipei: Dr. Byron Gong
A Critical Study of Evaluation Standards for English Programs at Soochow University |
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Collaborative and Panel Discussion
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