ALTE is organising a session of the ALTE Introductory Course in Language Testing from 7th till 11th  September 2020.

The course will take place in Cambridge, UK and will be presented by Professor Anthony Green (CRELLA, University of Bedfordshire) and Jane Lloyd (Cambridge Assessment English).

Please click on the link below to find the outline and the programme of the course.

Course outline

For more information about the venue of the course and practical information on how to get to Cambridge, please click here.

Registration will open later this year.

The ALTE course in Assessing Writing in the Digital Age will take place from 14th to 18th September 2020 in Cambridge, UK.

The course will be presented by Dr Sathena Chan  from the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA), University of Bedfordshire and Dr Jing Xu from Cambridge Assessment English.

The course outline will be available soon

For more information about the venue of the course and practical information, please click here.

Registration will open later this year.

The ALTE 55th Meeting and Conference will be hosted by Yunus Emre Institute in Istanbul, Turkey, and will take place from 4th to 6th November 2020. The conference will include workshops, plenaries and a gala dinner. 

The first two days of the meetings are open only to ALTE Members and Institutional affiliates. Friday 6th November will be an open conference day for all those with an interest in language testing. 

The theme of the conference is: 

Pluriculturalism: Implications for Language Learning and Assessment

Further information will be available in due course.

This is a two day event hosted by ELTE Origó Language Centre, in Budapest, Hungary.

I gruppi SIG sono aperti ai rappresentanti dei Membri ALTE e degli Affiliati Istituzionali.

Ulteriori informazioni su questo evento saranno fornite in tempo utile.

The ALTE 7^th International Conference will take place in Madrid, Spain on 28-30 April 2021. The co-organiser of this International Conference will be Instituto Cervantes.

Please note that the dates for this conference are being rescheduled due to the coronavirus outbreak. Registration is currently disabled.

Further information can be found on our detailed webpages www.alte.org/Madrid-2020

To register for this event, click on the 'Register' button on the left. This will guide you through the booking process, where you can pay for your conference attendance.  Please note that registration is currently disabled until it is reopened later this year.

Accommodation at the Conference Venue

The ALTE Secretariat has arranged a special rate for accommodation at the Novotel Madrid Centre.  However, there is a limited availability so, delegates wanting to stay at the conference venue are advised to book accommodation as soon as they register.

Rates: € 160.00 single room; € 175.00 double/twin room.

Rates are per night and include breakfast and VAT. To book, please click here.

The ALTE Forum on Language Assessment for Migration and Integration (LAMI) will take place on Friday 30th April 2021, after the closure of the main ALTE 7th International Conference in Madrid, Spain.

The theme of the LAMI Forum is: 'Mediation: from theoretical concepts to evaluation practices within the migration context'

View the concept note and draft programme here.

Delagates attending the ALTE 7th International Conference are welcome to also attend the LAMI Forum, free of charge, and won't need to register separately in the LAMI forum page.

If you would like to attend the LAMI Forum only, there is a registration fee of €25.

Registration is currently disabled for this event.