Menu
Log in


ALTE 54th Conference Day

  • 8 Nov 2019
  • 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Ljubljana, Slovenia

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).

In the afternoon there will also be parallel 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’.

Programme of the Conference

The first two days of the meetings, Wednesday 6th November and Thursday 7th 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 25th 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



 ALTE - the Association of Language Testers in Europe is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), registered in England, charity number 1184799.

Spanish Translation © Instituto Cervantes and University of Salamanca 2024 | French Translation © France Éducation International 2024 | Italian Translation © University for Foreigners, Perugia 2024 | Dutch Translation © CNaVT 2024 | Romanian Translation © Babeş-Bolyai University 2024 |  | Portuguese Translation © CAPLE-University of Lisbon 2023 | Swedish Translation © Stockholm University 2024 | Catalan Translation © Generalitat de Cataluyna 2024 | German Translation © Goethe Institut and ÖSD 2024

Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software