The 53rd Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) will take place in Ghent (Belgium) from Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th April 2019.
The conference theme is Multilingual access to education, with particular reference to the role of language testing and language assessment in education (primary, secondary, higher, adult education), concentrating on processes of access to education (entry requirements for newcomers and other learners, language certification of lecturers, etc.).
The conference also takes note of the increasing role of standardized testing and the issues that this raises.
The programme on Wednesday and Thursday is open only to ALTE Members and Institutional affiliates. The open conference day on Friday April 26 includes plenary sessions, a series of fact checks and four parallel workshops.
Plenary speakers include Micheline Chalhoub-Deville (University of North Carolina), Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences), Stef Slembrouck (Ghent University) and Piet van Avermaet (Ghent University).
For more information please visit the ALTE conference website.