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Language Testing: May
The May update to the Language Testing website sees the first part of a two-part feature on Test Architecture. The second part will be available in September. These two short pieces pose questions that focus on the metaphor of test design as architecture. They are designed to go with the 2009 paper Test Architecture, Test Retrofit published by myself and Fred Davidson in Language Testing. These features started life as part of an inservice training package for Cambridge Assessment, now rewritten and shortened for the website.

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Conferences: ECOLT 2012 takes place in November, and proposals should be received by 15th June. MWALT 2012 is at the University of Illinois in October. Abstracts due latest 5th June by email at mwalt2012@illinois.edu. A call for proposals has also been made for the 2012 JLTA conference by 8th July. Awards: Applications for the 2012 IELTS Masters Award should be submitted by 30th June. Funding: A call for proposals for this year's round of IELTS research funding has been made. Closing date is 30th June. Coming Soon: The first part of a two-part feature on test architecture was released in May. The second part will be available on 1st September. This is to accompany my 2009 paper on the subject with Fred Davidson, which won the ILTA Best Paper award in 2011. See the podcast page for news of future issues of Language Testing Bytes.

Current Feature:
Test Architecture, Design and Retrofit I.
Click on the 'Features' link to see selected topics that have previously appeared in the features slot. These are changed up to four times a year, providing short pieces on subjects of interest to students of language testing and assessment.

The Language Testing Bookstore is an Amazon affiliate. We try to keep the store up to date with all books on language testing currently in print. These are arranged under a number of categories from general texts, to specialist areas of testing and assessment. You can also find texts on educational measurement and statistics that are commonly used in language testing programmes. All books ordered through the bookstore are delivered by Amazon.

Information Alert Services
The website has a number of free Information Alert Services that are designed to help you keep up to date with what is going on in the world of language testing & assessment. These services use webslicing, which is a web feature introduced with Internet Explorer 8. Information on how webslicing works is available on the site's technical page. When you subscribe to a webslice a tab is placed on the favourites bar of Internet Explorer and you are alerted whenever the information is updated. You can currently subscribe to any of the following services:

Language Testing News: Available on this page. When you subscribe your browser will check for new language testing stories on this website every few hours. Go straight to the top story, or come back to this page to see all new stories in the world's media. Frequency: Daily.

Jobs4U: A daily roundup of jobs in testing and assessment. You see just the most recent job available in the alert, but just click to go to the employment page where you will find all the new positions just advertised. Frequency: Daily.

Article Alert: Checks the language testing journals and many applied linguistics and educational research journals for articles on language testing. When you receive an alert, go to the page to see all the new articles that have just been published. Frequency: Weekly.

Language Testing Bytes: Notification of new issues of the podcast so you can download them from this website. Frequency: 3 - 4 times annually.

Language Testing on Youtube: Keep up with the videos published by testing, assessment and media companies. Frequency: Variable.

Also available is this website's bulletin with periodic information about updates and other language testing news. Frequency: variable.

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Humour
Testing and assessment is serious because it can affect the lives of test takers, institutions, and society. But like all human and social activities, there is a humorous side as well. So after all the heavy stuff in the rest of this website, you may enjoy looking at testing in a rather different way, in the humour page, where you'll find video, audio, cartoons and other fun stuff related to testing and assessment.

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