Language Testing Bytes Vodcast #36: Tineke Brunfaut, Dylan Burton, April Ginther, and Lynda Taylor

Описание: Interview about the four Viewpoints written by Tineke Brunfaut, Dylan Burton, April Ginther, and Lynda Taylor on the 40th anniversary of the Language Testing journal. A Viewpoint is a new article type in Language Testing journal. Viewpoints are 4,000-word commissioned position papers on key topics from authors with invited rejoinders. The aim is to choose timely topics and publish these through an expedited process, ensuring that the journal remains responsive to current issues and debates in the field.

The four Viewpoints discussed in this issue of Language Testing Bytes are:
• "Future challenges and opportunities in language testing and assessment: Basic questions and principles at the forefront" by Tineke Brunfaut,
• "Reflections on the past and future of language testing and assessment: An emerging scholar’s perspective" by Dylan Burton,
• "Administration, labor, and love" by April Ginther, and
• "Reframing the discourse and rhetoric of language testing and assessment for the public square" by Lynda Taylor

0:00 Introduction
2:00 Testing of various language domains in high-stakes and low-stakes assessment contexts
8:20 Measuring multimodal constructs
16:23 Issues related to technology use in language assessment
24:32 Framing the discourse about language assessment issues for the general public
29:35 Promoting research transparency in language assessment
36:10 Looking ahead

Vodcast created by Ruslan Suvorov in December 2022