Vortrag "Ist mein B1 dein B1? Oder was es bedeutet, auf B1 zu sein."
2025-06-07 | Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen
Jeden Samstag um 11 Uhr werden wissenschaftliche Vorträge im Bremen Haus der Wissenschaft gehalten. Diese sind Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe “Wissen um 11.” Claudia Harsch wird im Haus der Wissenschaft im Juni einen Vortrag mit dem Titel “Ist mein B1 dein B1? Oder was es bedeutet, auf B1 zu sein” halten, als Beitrag zu der Reihe “Wissen um 11.”

46th LTRC: Vortrag: "Rating Performance and Quality of Novice and Expert Raters of Integrated Writing: Findings from a Mixed Methods Study in a German Higher Education Context"
2025-06-04 - 2025-06-08 | Bangkok, Thailand
In Bangkok in Thailand findet an den Tagen 04.06.-08.06.2025 zum 46. Mal die Veranstaltung “Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC)” statt. Claudia Harsch, Valeriia Koval, Ximena Delgado Osorio und Johannes Hartig halten bei diesem Kolloquium einen Vortrag zum Thema “Rating Performance and Quality of Novice and Expert Raters of Integrated Writing: Findings from a Mixed Methods Study in a German Higher Education Context.”

New Directions Conference: "Integrated reading-into-writing – how to assess the complexities?"
2025-03-04 - 2025-03-05 | Berlin, Germany
Am 04.03.-05.03.2025 hält Claudia Harsch eine Keynote mit dem Titel “Integrated reading-into-writing – how to assess the complexities?” auf der New Directions Conference 2025 in Berlin.

Workshop "Kompetenzen integriert prüfen - Herausforderungen nicht nur für die Bewertung der Prüfungsleistungen"
2024-03-05
Am 05.03.2024 gibt Claudia Harsch einen ganztägigen Workshop (hybrid) für das Zessko Uni Potsdam im Rahmen der AKS Workshop Woche, zu “Kompetenzen integriert prüfen – Herausforderungen nicht nur für die Bewertung der Prüfungsleistungen”.

EALTA Joint Special Interest Group Meeting for the Assessment of Writing and Academic Purposes
2024-03-01 - 2024-03-02 | University of Bremen
Theme: “The Use of Generative AI – Promises and Perils for
Assessing Writing and Assessing for Academic Purposes”
We’re pleased to announce that registration is now open for the upcoming EALTA joint SIG meeting for the Assessment of Writing and Academic Purposes in Bremen, 1st-2nd of March.
Please register for the upcoming event via this link. Registration for attendance has been extended until the 25th of February 2024. For organizational reasons, registrations for the joint dinner are no longer possible. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch with the SIG coordinators Sonja Zimmermann zimmermann@gast.de and Olivia Rütti-Joy olivia.ruetti-joy@unifr.ch.”
The planned joint SIG meeting will discuss questions such as the following:
• In what ways is the impact of technological change (e.g., through LLMs and genAI) changing communication and assessment?
• In what ways does the rise of genAI and LLMs impact on and change the constructs we assess – in our particular case “writing” and “for academic purposes”?
• What are the implications of changing global and societal dynamics in the educational and vocational domains on the objectivity, validity and reliability of language testing and assessment instruments that target writing skills?
• What are the affordances and challenges of these new technologies for language testing, language assessment, and assessment for learning? How can the potentials be harnessed, and the challenges be mitigated?
• What competences do language testers and educators need to acquire in order to sustainably, constructively and ethically collaborate with genAI today and in the future?

Theorie und Workshop: "Die Verwendung von Linguistic Landscapes in der Sprachausbildung und im Sprachenunterricht"
2024-01-31 15:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | University of Bremen
Referentin ist Prof. Dr. Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, Professorin für Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen an der Universität Hamburg. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in der Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkomprehension, im interkulturellen Lernen, in mehrsprachiger Interaktion sowie Herkunftssprachen.
“In diesem Vortrag befasse ich mich mit der Nutzung von Linguistic Landscapes als pädagogisches Werkzeug im Kontext der Sprachausbildung und des Sprachenunterrichts. Linguistic Landscapes beziehen sich auf die sichtbare Präsenz von mehreren Sprachen und semiotischen Elementen in einer bestimmten Umgebung, sei es auf Straßenschildern, Plakaten, Ladenbeschriftungen oder anderen öffentlichen Bereichen. Die Integration von Linguistic Landscapes kann Lernenden helfen, ihre Sprachkenntnisse in realen Kontexten zu verbessern und ein tieferes Verständnis für die sprachliche Vielfalt zu entwickeln. Der Workshop geht auf Methoden, Beispiele und die pädagogischen Vorteile ein, die sich aus der Einbeziehung von Sprachlandschaften ergeben können.”
Ort: Universität Bremen, GW 2, B2009
Anmeldung bei Stephanie Bergmann (stephanie.bergmann@uni-bremen.de)

19th EALTA Conference
2023-06-13 - 2023-06-18 | Helsinki, Finland
Conference Theme 2023:
Sustainable Language Assessment: Improving Educational Opportunities at the Individual, Local, and Global level
In 2015, the United Nations set ambitious goals as part of Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The 19th EALTA Conference will address the role of the wide and varied field of language assessment in contributing to these educational aims.
We have invited proposals for theoretical and empirical research presentations, works-in-progress, posters, and symposia that will shed light on a range of timely issues regarding the role of language assessment in enhancing quality education that is sustainable at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels.

​44th Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC)
2023-06-05 - 2023-06-09 | New York City
Language Assessment for a Global, Digital, and More Equitable Era
The historic events of the past three years have brought immense change to the world in many ways, including, of course, to language assessment. For LTRC 2023, we focus on how the field can respond to current realities. Technology has played an important role in our field for decades but the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified its role and impact. The pandemic also brought into sharp focus the fact that we live in a global, interconnected society and served as a reminder that our assessments and constructs need to reflect our multilingual, multimodal, integrated world. In addition, events, in particular in the US, have reminded us how far we have yet to go to achieve a more equitable and just society prompting us to ponder how language assessment can be used in ways that promote equity and disrupt inequality. Therefore, for the 44th LTRC held in the global city that is New York, we particularly welcome proposals that address these issues (technology, globalization, equity) independently and in relation to each other. Join us for the first in-person LTRC to be held in four years to discuss both established and innovative approaches and move language assessment research and practice forward in new directions.

Join us for an ILTA Webinar
2023-04-11 11:00 - 12:30 | online
Formative Language Assessment in the Time of COVID 19: Lessons Learned
Moderators: Heike Neumann, Concordia University & Claudia Harsch, University of Bremen

8th Bremen Symposium 2023
2023-03-01 - 2023-03-03 | University of Bremen
Bremen Symposium 2023

Rethinking the Role of Language Centres: Flexibilty, Relevance & Vision

The 8th Bremen Symposium on Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages at Universities is hosted and organised by the Language Centre of the Universities of Bremen (SZHB) in cooperation with the Association of Language Centres, Language Teaching Institutes and Institutes of Foreign Languages at German Universities (AKS). The symposium will take place from (Wednesday) March 01, 2023 through (Friday) March 03, 2023 on the campus of the University of Bremen.

XVII. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer
2022-08-15 - 2022-08-20 | Wien, Österreich
Prof. Dr. Claudia Harsch: Plenarvortrag: Neue Impulse durch den Begleitband zum GERS (CEFR Companion Volume)

Joint Event, prior to EALTA conference
2022-06-02 14:00 - 17:00 | Budapest, Hungary
The EALTA Special Interest Groups for the Assessment of Writing and Assessment for Academic Purposes will hold a joint event on Thursday 2 June 2022, 14.00–17.00, prior to the EALTA conference in Budapest.

43rd Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) – online
2022-03-07 - 2022-03-11 | online
Prof. Dr. Claudia Harsch with Prof. Dr. Johannes Hartig: Linguistic preparedness in EMI contexts, paper in the Symposium “Language assessment in EMI: Linking assessment to learning in new domains”.

DGFF WebWorkshop – Tests
2022-02-23 | via Zoom
Prof. Dr. Claudia Harsch: DGFF WebWorkshop: Die duale Funktion von Sprachtests in der Fremdsprachenforschung – Forschungsinstrument und Untersuchungsgegenstand. DGFF Kolleg.

EALTA SIG-Meeting
2019-11-08
On November 8th 2019, the EALTA SIGs Assessment of Writing and Assessment for Academic Purposes are holding a joint meeting at the University of Bremen, Germany. The 1-day meeting will include presentations by and discussions amongst SIG participants. We are looking forward to welcome practitioners with an interest in assessment as well as language testing researchers and professionals to share ideas and discuss recent and future projects. For more information visit our second website here.

UNIcert Workshop
2019-11-08 - 2019-11-09
“New times – new paths: Opportunities to implment the CEFR companion volume on teaching, learning and assessment within the UNIcert(r) framework.”
For more information please visit our second website here.

EALTA’s 16th annual conference
2019-05-31 - 2019-06-02 | Dublin, Ireland, Irland
EALTA’s 16th annual conference
Transitions in language assessment. University College Dublin, Ireland

Colloquium, LTRC 2019
2019-03-04 - 2019-03-08 | Atlanta, Georgia, Vereinigte Staaten
Colloquium, LTRC 2019
41th Language Testing Research Colloquium. Language testing and social justice. Atlanta, Georgia, USA

7th Bremen Symposium
2019-02-28 - 2019-03-02 | 7th Bremen Symposium, Deutschland
7th Bremen Symposium on language learning and teaching at universities. Rethinking the language learner. Paradigms – Methods – Disciplines. FZHB, University of Bremen, Germany
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