ALTE will run a one-day Introductory Course in Statistics for Language Testing on Wednesday 6th November 2019 at the Faculty of Law, University of  Ljubljana, Poljanski nasip 2, 1000 Ljubljana.

The course tutor will be Jane Lloyd, ALTE Validation Unit Manager.

Course Outline

Course Programme

Registration is now closed.

The next ALTE 54th Conference Day will be hosted by the Centre for Slovene as a Second and Foreign Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and will take place on Friday 8th November 2019. The theme of this conference day is: Monolingual testing in a multilingual reality? Language ideologies and their influence on language testing.

Plenary speakers include Professor Marko Stabej (University of Ljubljana), Petra Likar Stanovnik (University of Ljubljana), Professor Anne Gallagher (National University of Ireland Maynooth), Graham Seed (Cambridge Assessment English). 

During the morning there will be a round table with the following title: Language policy makers’ (close) encounters (the case of Slovenia).

Nel pomeriggio ci saranno anche delle sessioni parallele di workshops:

• Tanja Jerman, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Benchmarking workshop in Slovene) ‘SEJO v praksi: naravni govorec kot referenca (Kako umeščamo pisne produkcije na ravni SEJO)’, ‘The CEFR in practice: native speaker as a reference?’;
• Dr Lorenzo Rocca, CVCL, University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy,  will moderate a follow up workshop on Language policy makers’ (close) encounters (the case of Slovenia);
• Siân Morgan, Cambridge Assessment English, UK, ‘Success beyond the test: The importance of creating positive impact by design’;
• Dr Benjamin Kremmel, University of Innsbruck, Austria, ‘Avoiding bias in language test development’.

Provisional Programme of the Conference

The first two days of the meetings, Wednesday 6^th November and Thursday 7^th November, are open only to representatives of ALTE Members and Institutional affiliates.

The Examination Centre for Slovene as a Second and Foreign Language is celebrating its 25^th anniversary, therefore the Conference Day will be free of charge and open to all those with an interest in language testing.

For more information about the venue of the conference and practical information on how to get to Ljubljana, please click here.  Useful information about accommodation near the venue of the conference is available here. 

To register for the Conference Day, please click here.

The deadline for the registration is Monday 28th October 2019

This is a two day event hosted by the Goethe Institut.

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 22nd - 24th April 2020, Madrid, Spain. The co-organiser of this International Conference will be Instituto Cervantes.

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

Deadline for registration is Sunday 5th April 2020

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

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.

Deadline for registration: Sunday 5th April 2020

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.