Sobre o evento
No dia 23 de julho de 2021, o São Paulo Open Centre promoveu seu primeiro Assessment Day, cujo tema foi Challenges of assessing children’s and teenagers’ English language development.
Foi um dia especial onde aprendermos mais e conversarmos sobre questões específicas, relacionadas à avaliação de línguas em nossas escolas. Tivemos a participação de quatro grandes profissionais, o apoio de Cambridge Assessment English e a participação de um grande número de professores, coordenadores, diretores e amigos da área de língua inglesa e dos diversos setores de educação, aos quais muito agradecemos pela presença e participação!
PALESTRANTES
Judit Kormos
Lancaster University – UK
Title: Fairness and accessibility in language assessment for teenage language learners with specific learning differences
Abstract: The number of teenage students with Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs) taking language proficiency tests is increasing. It is therefore essential that neither the test design nor test implementation procedures create an unfair barrier for these students. This session will start with a comprehensive overview what makes a test fair and valid from the perspective of test takers with SpLDs. Next I will review some recent research findings on how various types of special arrangements impact on the performance of students with SpLDs. In the second half of the session we will explore ways to make summative and formative assessment more accessible for language learners with SpLDs.
Judit Kormos is a Professor in Second Language Acquisition at Lancaster University. She was a key partner in the award-winning DysTEFL project sponsored by the European Commission and is a lead educator in the Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching massive open online learning course offered by FutureLearn. She is the co-author of the book Teaching Languages to Students with Specific Learning Differences with Anne Margaret Smith. She has published widely on the effect of dyslexia on learning additional languages including a book entitled The second language learning processes of students with specific learning difficulties. She is the author of multiple research papers that investigate the role of cognitive factors in second language acquisition.
Miriam Sester Retorta
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – UTFPR – Brazil
Title: The challenges of inclusive assessment practices
Abstract: This talk will focus on how to include students with disabilities in assessment practices.
Professor Miriam holds a Bachelor degree in English Language and Literatures from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1989), license teacher degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1989), master degree in English language studies from the Federal University of Paraná (1996), doctorate degree in Applied Linguistics from the State University of Campinas (2007) and post-doctorate in Applied Linguistics from the State University of Londrina (2016). She works at the Academic Department of Modern Languages at the Federal University of Technology-Paraná. Currently conducts research in the group Technology, Teacher Education and Literacies. Coordinates the project entitled Mobile, Digital and Multiliteracies to Visually-Impaired Students. Also concentrates studies on Assessment Literacy, Academic Literacies, Mobile Literacy and Multiliteracies.
