#EALTA2025

Simplified PRISMA chart (adapted from Page et al., 2021)

Stefan O‘Grady, Nazlınur Göktürk & Olena Rossi presented a systematic review of AI use in language testing between 2019 and 2024 at #EALTA2025

Ari Huhta, Sylvia Opriessnig, Josep Maria Montcada Escbairo, Doris MoserFrötscher, Olivia Rütti Joy, Gyula Tánko, & Karin Vogt
Gave a panel discussion at #EALTA2025 focusing on assessment impact
- who and how much have agency at the steering wheel?
- can we make it into a discussion?

Recommendations for Assessment Literacy courses • Course content • Glossary with a related language-focussed task • (Simple) quantitative and qualitative test analysis • Facilitating assessment design and marking • Course delivery • Practical test development activities & peer feedback • Topics seen from different viewpoints to raise awareness of function of assessment • Carefully staged content • Contextualisation • Frame within a particular context • Emphasise learner-controd aspects

Carolyn Westbrook, Richard Spiby & Jordan Weide on corpus linguistics-based approach to investigate teachers’ challenges in language assessment at #EALTA2025

Breakthroughs: Al & LLM Application to language testing: Scoring essays for a high-stakes test Scoring accuracy: A fine-tuned BERT model was most accurate Detecting anomalous responses: Prompt engineering with an LLM was best Providing qualitative feedback: Prompt engineering with an LLM was most informative Solution: One Al agent retrieves the scores from the fine-tuned BERT model Another Al agent checks for anomalous essays and flags them Another Al agent provides qualitative feedback by prompting with an LLM

Jamie Dunlea Lecture #EALTA2025: Alistair Van Moere's giving a keynote on AI innovation transforming language assessment

Title slide of the presentation "I think the most interesting thing iscthat this would help them"

Very interesting CBLA and MLA SIG today at #EALTA2025 with a large variety of foci, contexts, and methodologies. Vera Vesala and I presented our paper on a part of @ddlangproject.bsky.social project, focusing on our collaboration with teachers, namely, on how we together design classroom activities

DD-Lang #collaborator meeting is also happening during the #EALTA2025 conference.

DD-Lang team is travelling to #EALTA2025, Saltzurg. We will be presenting two papers focusing on different aspects of the project: ⏭️

Waking up in Salzburg ready for the kickoff of #EALTA2025! Karen Dunn and I are starting our workshop today on modeling clustered and repeated language assessment data in R.