Fall 2025 online event: We are so pleased to have Matthieu Meignan, Meng-Hsun Lee , and Christina Hammam sharing their student award winning papers from our in-person Fall conference. Everyone is welcome to join us for this exciting event! To register email [email protected].

Anddddd that’s a wrap!!! What a wonderful end to the #CALA2025 Fall Conference💙 Thank you to all the amazing students and professionals who contributed their time and expertise to this conference, and to CALA’s leadership team for all their guidance and leadership in organizing this event.

✨Congratulations to our Student Award winners!!! 🏆 1️⃣ Matthieu Meignan 2️⃣ Meng-Su Lee 3️⃣ Christina Hammam Thank you all for your contributions to our #CALA2025 conference, offering us insightful and meaningful perspectives into language assessment and how we can improve the field!

At #CALA2025, Eunice Jang presents “Leveraging AI for the Assessment of Critical Reasoning in Graduate Writing: Connecting Theory, Ethics, and Practice in Canadian Higher Education.” #CALA #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #Duolingo #DuolingoEnglishTest #LanguageAssessment #CELPIP #toefl #academicresearch

At #CALA2025, Heike Neuman dives into the transformative power of Generative AI in education. GenAI: Leveraging Disruption for Positive Change — turning disruption into meaningful progress.🔎✨

✨Bilingual (En/Fr) Presentation by Jennifer MacDonald! Adapting the Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale (AIAS) for University English Language Teaching: A Case Study from the Chinese Context #CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax

Engaging discussions and new perspectives emerging at #CALA2025! 📘CLB/NCLC in Practice: Gathering Feedback to Guide Future Use

✨What an amazing Panel Discussion!! #CALA2025 📙📕State of Language Assessment in Canada: Past, Presert and Future 💬 Heike Neumann, Shahrzad Saif, Eunice Jang, and Beverly Baker

✨🧠📘 #CALA2025 🔹 Christina Hammam – Understanding referral barriers: A scoping review of psychoeducational assessment pathways for EAL students 🔹 Yara Yazbek – A qualitative examination of school psychologists’ knowledge of and experiences with supporting newcomer students in Nova Scotia schools

🧠✨ Exploring the intersection of Educational Psychology and language learning at #CALA2025! Emma Becker presented “Aligning Social-Emotional Learning theory, evidence, and assessment for EAL learners: A scoping review of Canadian evidence.” 🇨🇦 #MSVU #EAL #Social-EmotionalLearning #LanguageAssessment

✨ Meng-Su Lee presented “An Investigation into Feedback Uptake in Computerized Dynamic Assessment” #CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #DynamicAssessment #ComputerizedDynamicAssessment #LanguageAssessment #academicresearch

✨Zhi Li presented on Comparing the use of interactional tools in IELTS lecture-based listening tests and the BASE lectures. #CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #LanguageAssessment #AcademicResearch #IELTS #BASELectures

✨Anne-Marie Sénécal and the research team started the morning off with their presentation “Examining research on language test preparation practices: A systematic review with insights for the Canadian context” 💬🇨🇦

✨ Welcome to Day 2 of the Fall 2025 #CALA Conference 💙📚 Get ready for another great day full of exciting presentations!! #CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #Duolingo #DuolingoEnglishTest #LanguageAssessment #CELPIP #toefl #academicresearch

✨#CALA2025 Work-In-Progress 🔹Susan Ballinger: Assessing cross-linguistic awareness: Illuminating a key construct in multilingualism 🔹Andrea Fraser: Early Reading Screening Measures: How Universal Screeners Support Decision-Making for All Students

✨ #CALA2025 Work-In-Progress Michelle Chen: Jagged Profiles in High-Stakes Language Testing: Patterns and Implications Mahdi Ramezani: From Trust to Test Scores: Digital Confidence and Fairness Mediating Motivation in Adaptive (DET) and Traditional Language Testing (IELTS)

✨ #CALA2025 Work-In-Progress 🔹Kevin Croisetière-Otis: Professional Representations of FFL Classroom Assessment: Discourses of Quebec Teachers in Vietnam 🔹 Ramsey CardWell: Predictive Validity of DET Scores in Canadian Higher Education English

✨#CALA2025 Work-In-Progress 🔹Han Lai: Fluent Readers, Stronger Speakers: Predicting Oral Language Skills in ELL and Non-ELL Students 🔹John Smith III: Indigenizing English Placement Assessment: Transforming Assessment for Indigenous Learners' Success

Wrapped up Day 1 of #CALA2025 with our Work-In-Progress discussions. So inspired by the incredible range of talks today! #MSVU #AcademicResearch #Duolingo #LanguageAssessment

❇️ Ramsey Caldwell with #Duolingo discussed a study extended time accommodations on a computer-adaptive high-stakes English test. 💻💬 #CALA2025 #CALA/ACEL #LanguageAssessment #DuolingoEnglishTest #ELL #MSVU #Halifax #LanguageTest

✨Johanathan Woodworth presented on educator perspectives on AI literacy and fairness in language assessment and feedback. 💬📚 #CALA2025 #CALA/ACÉL #MSVU #MountSaintVincentUniversity #MSVUResearch #TESL #LanguageAssessment #AI #Literacy

🔹Beverly Baker and Heike Neumann highlighted critical issues in language assessment, including extended time accommodations in computer-adaptive English testing and the broader implications for TESL contexts. #CALA2025 #msvu_halifax #LanguageAssessment #TESL

✨Keynote Speaker Spiros Papageorgiou presents on Methodologies for Mapping Test Scores to External Standards in the Canadian Context. 🎓🇨🇦 #CALA2025 #LanguagingAssessment #ETS #MSVU #LanguageScores #LanguageProficiency #Canada

💡Meaningful contributions and discussions #CALA2025 #MSVU 🔹 Christine Doe – Taking a positive turn for the affective dimension of the Learning-Oriented Assessment Framework: “These things give us courage” 🔹 Meng-Hsu Lee – A mixed-methods investigation into raters’ assessments of prosodic features

🌟 #CALA2025 Amazing presentations on diverse perspectives in language research and assessment: 🔹 Matthieu Meignan – Consequential validity for minoritized communities through experiential knowledge (Bilingual EN/FR) 🔹 Pelin Irgin – Note-taking in academic listening: A translanguaging perspective

✨Engaging insights this morning on heritage language learners and their acquisition pathways! Marie Nader shared bilingual (EN/FR) findings on oral production and morphosyntactic elicitation, highlighting the impact of exposure on language performance. 🌍📊 #CALA2025 #LanguageAssessment

🔎✨ Amna Mirza presenting at #CALA2025 on enhancing irregular word recognition in English learners through the Packing–Unpacking–Packing method 📚💡 #CALA #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #Duolingo #LanguageAssessment #EnglishLearners #CELPIP #toefl #academicresearch

✨Welcoming everyone to the Fall 2025 CALA Conference at Mount Saint Vincent University! A day of meaningful connections, learning, and celebrating research on language assessment🧡📘 #CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #Duolingo #DuolingoEnglishTest #LanguageAssessment #CELPIP #toefl #academicresearch

Today is the day!!! Welcome to Day 1 of the 2025 CALA/ACÉL conference in Halifax. We have some amazing sessions planned for today, we are looking forward to seeing everyone there! 😊 Please scan the QR code to see the full program!

We have an exciting program for our upcoming conference in Halifax with some amazing speakers & workshops! The conference is free for CALA members. To become a member go to:https://www.cala-acel.org/become-a-member. To register go to: ticketbud.com/events/d0e67.... Register by September 23rd! 😊

We are so excited to share our call for papers for our Fall 2025 Conference in Halifax! Our theme this year is: Connections across theory, ethics, and practice of language assessment in Canada. Abstracts are due August 22nd. Submit your abstract here: forms.gle/CRtmijQDVwi1....

We are so excited about our upcoming Montreal event focused on Corrective Feedback in L2. Check out our some of our presenters' research! Registration is still open: ticketbud.com/events/0a11e... This event is free for members. To become a member go to: www.cala-acel.org/membership-a...

Our bilingual winter event in Montreal is coming up soon! Here's some of the exciting research some of our presenters will share. For more information on the event, please go to: www.cala-acel.org/winter-bilin.... We hope to see you there 🙂 Registration is still open: ticketbud.com/events/0a11e...

Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer notre Événement d'hiver bilingue Montréal, QC (5 mars 2025). La rétroaction corrective : catalyseur de progression, au-delà des notes et des examens Rendez-vous sur notre page Ticketbud pour vous inscrire à l'événement. Cliquez ici: ticketbud.com/events/0a11e...

Our bilingual event, Corrective feedback in L2: A catalyst for progress, beyond grades and exams, will take place in Montreal on March 5th . This bilingual event is free for CALA/ACÉL members and $70 for non-members. To become a member go to: www.cala-acel.org/membership-a....