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Tbilisi, 2-5 Oct. 2017 BILC Professional Seminar Paving the Road to the Standardization of Training and Testing: Lessons Learned Closing remarks. BILC Secretariat. We did have successful work during the seminar …. …although we had 50 shades of weather. We worked hard …. 64 participants
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Tbilisi, 2-5 Oct. 2017BILC Professional SeminarPaving the Road to the Standardization of Training and Testing: Lessons LearnedClosing remarks BILC Secretariat
We worked hard …. • 64 participants • 23 countries • 1 representative of IMS HQ NATO • 22 presentations: 7 presentations by the USA; 4 presentations by Georgia; 3 presentations by France; 2 presentations by Austria; 1 presentation by Italy; 1 presentation by Norway 1 presentation by Poland; 1 presentation by Portugal; 1 presentation by the UK; 1 presentation by Denmark and Finland
Day 1 • Making Teaching English More Productive, Ms. Teona Kupatadze, Ms. Maya Danelia, NDA, Georgia • Standardized Interpretation Techniques Training, David Oglesby, PLTCE • The Standardisation of Learning: The Italian Approach., Mr Benjamin Charles Pim, Italian Aviation Training Center, Italy • The benefits and challenges of standardization, Lt-Commander Marta Gabriel, Portugal • Teaching English in Simulators. Assistant Professor Anne Linda Løhre, Royal Naval Academy, Norway • Experimental Attempts to Implement Digital Technologies in language training at the Polish Naval Academy, Ph.D. Daria Łęska-Osiak, Polish Naval Academy, Poland
Day 2 • Test Standardization: from Design to Concurrent Validation, Dr. Ray Clifford, BILC Senior Advisor • BILC Standardization Efforts and BAT, Round 2, Peggy Garza, BILC Associate Secretary, Roxane Harrison, PLTCE program manager • The Challenges of Designing an Effective Multi-Level Assessment from SLP 1-4, Maj David Gibb, UK • The Vicissitudes of Language Testing, Mzia Skhulukhia, TMEC, Georgia • Lowering the standards-a blessing or a curse? COL Dr. Josef Ernst, Austria • Assessment at DLIFLC, Detlev Kesten , DLI Monterey, USA • Instructor Evaluation Process Improvement, Angel Bishop-Petty, DLIELC , USA • Promoting Standards of Excellence in Language Instruction with the Defense Language Institute English Language Center’s (DLIELC’s) Instructor Rubric and Susan Butcher, DLIELC, USA
Day 3 • Foreign Language student motivation, Dr. Mina Lee, DLI Monterey, USA • Developing Listening and Speaking Skills, Lela Khubuluri, Zurab Chkhikvadze, NDA, Georgia • Making the leap from level 2 to level 3, Camille Hess, France • STANAG 6001 Speaking Test -Observations; Lessons Learned, Tamar Shavlakadze , TMEC, Georgia
Day 4 • Challenges of teaching the skill of writing in French, Jérôme Collin Professor, France • Challenges of teaching the skill of writing in English at level 4, Emilie Alice Cleret, France • All at Sea - developing professional and academic writing skills among junior officers., Allan Juhl Kristensen, Denmark • Writing Matters -- Challenges of teaching and assessing student writing, Elisabeth Mueller-Lipold, Austria