第二届广外应用语言学论坛将于2012年12月7-9日在广东外语外贸大学举行。论坛由外国语言学及应用语言学研究中心（教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地）承办。论坛有关事项具体如下：
12月7日：工作坊
Workshop 1: SupportingStudent Learning: Synergy between Assessment of Learning and Assessment for Learning
David Carless，The University of Hong Kong
程李颖，Queen’s University (Canada)
Workshop 2: Rasch Analysis in Language Testing
刘建达，广东外语外贸大学
培训费：
一般学员：300元
学生：200元
12月8-9日：会议
会议议题：
语言习得与加工
语言教学技术与评估
社会中的语言
应用语言学方法论
主旨发言人：
J. Charles Alderson，Lancaster University (UK)
Title: Exploring and Understanding Diagnostic Testing
Diagnostic language testing has until recently been largely ignored by language test developers and language testing researchers, who have concentrated on high-stakes proficiency tests like TOEFL iBT, IELTS or the Pearson Test of English Academic. However, now there are some signs of an emerging interest in developing diagnostic tests. Unfortunately, what are claimed to be diagnostic tests are often little more than placement tests, and are rarely based on a theory of language learning, or a theory of diagnosis. However, tests should be specifically developed for their purpose, which in this case is not placement or proficiency, but detailed diagnosis of the cognitive and linguistic features which predict a learner's strengths and weaknesses in language abilities.
This presentation describes the results of DIALUKI, a series of studies exploring a range of potential diagnostic measures, longitudinal investigations of L2 reading and writing development as well as intervention studies teaching morphological awareness, extensive reading, vocabulary development and writing ability.
This presentation details the various instruments being used to assess reading and writing in L1 and L2, as well as other linguistic and cognitive variables, learners’ motivation and their backgrounds. Except for the motivation and background questionnaires, all instruments were administered in informants' first language (Finnish or Russian) as well as their second language (English or Finnish), in order to examine their applicability for L2 diagnosis.
The presentation will close with a discussion of the implications of the results of the DIALUKI project for the design of diagnostic tests of second or foreign language reading and writing.
桂诗春，广东外语外贸大学；杨惠中，上海交通大学
Title: China ---- A Case Study of Critical Testing
China is the homeland of critical testing as well as service examination system. As a political tool, Ke’ju had undergone a process of 1300 years of stage-setting, flourishing, and perishing as a consequence of different political considerations, but the political and social issues that perplexed Ke’ju continues to affect testing and examination in present-day China. The study tries to look at the Entrance Examination to Higher Education(EEHE) in terms of Equality（公平），Fairness（公正）and Openness（公开）, the three principled pillars of modern testing and examination in China, with special emphasis on the social roots of dominant ideologies, de-standardization, and conflict between the academics and the administration.
参会形式：
每位论文宣读者有30分钟的时间，20分钟宣读论文，10分钟回答问题。
会务费（不含交通费及住宿费）：
一般与会者：700元
学生：500元
重要日期：
2012年8月31日：来稿截止
2012年9月30日：通知录用结果
2012年10月21日：网上注册截止
2012年12月7日：工作坊
2012年12月8-9日：会议
工作语言：
英文、中文
会议论文集：
会后将出版本届论坛的论文集。论文不得是已发表或已投稿的文章。
