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BILC 2016 Professional Seminar: Authenticity in Training and Testing

Join us at the 2016 BILC Professional Seminar in Budapest, focusing on authenticity in language training and testing. Explore sub-topics like real-world language use, authentic materials, and collaboration with universities.

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BILC 2016 Professional Seminar: Authenticity in Training and Testing

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  1. Budapest, 24-27 Oct. 2016BILC Professional SeminarAuthenticity in Training and Testing: Making It RealBILC Update BILC Secretariat

  2. BILC events and courses • Annual Conference (May) • STANAG 6001 Testing Workshop (September) • Professional Seminar (October) • Testing Seminars • Faculty Development Workshops

  3. 2015 BILC Professional Seminar,Helsinki, Finland, 4-9 October • Theme: Increasing proficiency levels: What works and what doesn’t • Sub-themes: - Aptitude vs. Attitude in Language Learning - Immersion Programmes as Proficiency Enhancers - Blended Learning - Applying STANAG to Languages Other than English - Best Practices in Classroom Based Assessment

  4. 2016 BILC ConferenceRiga, Latvia, 22-26 May • Theme: From goals to outcomes: measuring success • Sub-themes: - Creating courses and validating their effectiveness - Accreditation of courses - Applying quality assurance measures to language programs - Creating coherence across different assessments - Portability of STANAG 6001 scores to civilian contexts - STANAG 6001-based training and the Bologna process - (Dis)parities between scales and tests - The impact of digital learning environments on learning success - Challenges of transitioning from traditional to blended learning - Enhancing performance through standardization - Creating templates for success. • Study Groups Topics: - Quality assurance for language programs - Portability of STANAG 6001 certificates to civilian context - Best practices in blended learning - Successful templates for designing, developing and validating courses.

  5. 2016 BILC STANAG Testing WorkshopBrno, Czech Republic, 6-9 September Theme: TESTING THE TEST – HOW VALID IS OUR VALIDITY ARGUMENT? Sub-themes: • Qualitative versus quantitative analysis • Piloting challenges • Test validation partnerships • Think aloud protocols • Data analysis tools • Consequential validity • Modified Angoff procedure and its place in the validation process • Use of validation procedures to inform training

  6. Funding: NATO Self-Payers NATO Subsidies for eligible partners ACT-sponsored BILC courses A. Hosted by the Partner Language Training Center Europe (PLTCE), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany • Language Testing Seminar - 2 weeks - twice a year • Advanced Language Testing Seminar - 3 weeks - once a year • Language Standards & Assessment Seminar - 2 weeks - twice a year B. Hosted by PLTCE, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; FLD, Shumen, Bulgaria; Poljce, Slovenia • English Teaching Faculty Development Workshop - 2 weeks • four times a year

  7. BILC Cooperative Visits (August 2015- Oct 2016) • Mongolia, August 2015 • Georgia, January 2016 • Ukraine, March/April 2016 • Ukraine, April 2016 • Azerbaijan, May 2016 • Mongolia, May/June 2016 • Azerbaijan, October 2016 • Georgia, October 2016

  8. Request from Allied Command Transformation Joint Force Trainer 1. In accordance with References A and B, the SGNTG kindly asks BILC to conduct SGNTG 2015 Action Item Numbers 6 and 7 as follows: a. BILC to investigate the portability of NATO military language certification into civilian terms and vice versa, based on discussions during SGNTG 2015 Agenda Item #13.1. b. Integration of Language Education into Military Training & Exercises. Based on discussions during SGNTG 2015 Agenda Item #13.1, it was determined that a Study should be conducted to assess whether Language Education can be integrated into Military Training and Exercises more efficiently. BILC volunteered to conduct an informal review internally.

  9. Two BILC Working Groups Level 4 Working Group Portability and Recognition of STANAG 6001 Certificates 27-28 Sept. 2016, Bled, Slovenia - Improving recognition of STANAG 6001 certificates both within the militaries as well as by civilian institutions - Exploring more standardization of STANAG 6001 certificates across nations - Rendering to non-specialists the complexities of comparing the STANAG 6001 criterion referenced tests to other types of language tests - Formation of Working Group on Level 4 – BILC 2010, Istanbul - Paper: “A Conceptual Model and Implications for Testing” –BILC Website, 2014 - Article: “Defining and Assessing Level 4 Proficiency” Chapter 10 in “Language in Uniform”, Cambridge Scholars 2015 - Prototype Reading Test – Work in Progress

  10. Special Initiatives • NATO-Partnership Training and Education Centre (PTEC) collaboration • BILC SharP

  11. BILC site

  12. 2016 BILC Professional Seminar, Budapest, Hungary, 24-27 October Theme: Authenticity in training and testing: making it real • Sub-topics • Linking training and testing to real-world target language use • Traditional textbooks versus authentic materials • Co-operating/partnering with local universities • Attaining concordance between linguistic objectives and training outcomes • Benefitting from tele-collaboration between training establishments • Using social media in training • Teaching and learning as two sides of the same coin • Language maintenance • Workshops • Designing reading to write tasks for Student Military Staff Officers • Education programmes for Communicatively and Culturally Literate Military Personnel

  13. Questions? BILC site: www.natobilc.org BILC e-mail address: chairman@natobilc.org

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