For the 1st time, #LanguageTesting Language Testing has published a set of 2 articles from the same larger project-a practice that coheres w/COPE guidelines. Both papers by Neittaanmäki & Lamprianou University of Jyväskylä online & will be published in same issue journals.sagepub.com/home/ltj

Call for Language Testing Special Issue 2026 proposals is now open! Submission deadline: May 26, 2024. For information about how to submit a proposal, please read the “Language Testing – Special Issue Instructions for Guest Editors” document:
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Now available in Online First, Ute Knoch (Ute Knoch ) and Jason Fan (at University of Melbourne ) evaluate the concordance practices of language test providers based on concordance studies focusing on four large-scale English language tests.
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Now available in Online First, Khaled Barkaoui (York University) reviews L2 Writing Assessment: An Evolutionary Perspective by Anthony Green
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Now available in Online First, Tia M. Fechter and Heeyeon Yoon explore two methods for improving the validity and reliability of the recommended cut scores for language proficiency tests in the U.S. Government Defense Language Proficiency Test program.
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Call for Language Testing Special Issue 2026 proposals is now open! Submission deadline: May 26, 2024. For information about how to submit a proposal, please read the “Language Testing – Special Issue Instructions for Guest Editors” document:
uofi.app.box.com/v/LTspecialiss…

Congrats Dr. Vahid Aryadoust et al on winning #ILTA best paper award! High impact Language Testing article advances knowledge of cognitive load during #listeningassessment & pioneers use of advanced technologies, w/methodological implications for future work on test-takers’ cognition

We have updated the guidelines for Brief Report submissions to Language Testing! Details about the increased word limit and the scope of this article type can be found here:
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Now available in Online First, Shangchao Min (Zhejiang University) and Kyoungwon Bishop (@UWMadison) evaluate the multistage adaptive test design of ACCESS, a language proficiency test for English learners in Grades 1-12.
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Now available in Online First, Maria Treadaway and John Read (University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau) present standard-setting procedures for the Overseas Flight Training Preparation Test (Treadaway, 2021), a diagnostic English proficiency test for ab initio cadet pilots.
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Now available in Online First, Haerim Hwang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK) and Hyunwoo Kim (@yonsei_u) present a new open-source application for measuring syntactic complexity in L2 Korean production.
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There’s still time to register for the upcoming ‘ORCID Workshop for Researchers’ on February 7 at 2pm. This workshop, hosted by ORCID Organization and Lyrasis, will cover the benefits of using ORCID. Learn more and register here: stonybrook.edu/commcms/propos…

Now available in Online First, Haiwei Zhang (Peking University) and colleagues present a translation-based Chinese vocabulary proficiency test for learners of Chinese as a second/foreign language and discuss their initial validation evidence.
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Jan. 1 is a 'change of the guard' for Language Testing, Paula Winke, outgoing Co-Editor of #LanguageTesting , had a transformative 5-yr tenure--introducing new article types, steering journal thru pandemic, advancing #openscience ...
Our new Co-Editor is: linguistics.illinois.edu/news/2023-11-0…

.OASIS Database #openaccess summaries available on #LanguageTesting topics too. I'd encourage all authors to widen access for their scholarship in this way. Summaries for 21 Language Testing articles available here, some in >1 language. Need more in 2024! oasis-database.org/catalog?f%5Bpu…