Organisation: International Language Testing Association 2026
Join the International Language Testing Association in beautiful Montréal, Canada for LTRC 2026, and experience two days of in-depth preconference workshops and three days of symposia, papers, works in progress, posters and more! PLUS, don't miss the opportunity to network with other language testing professionals from across the world during our conference social programs:
Opening ceremony and reception (Wednesday, June 3)
Networking dinner(s)
Banquet (Saturday, June 6 at 18h00)
Plus enjoy one of LTRC's conference excursions, including a 5k morning run, evening hike on Mount Royal, one-day trip to Quebec city and Montmorency Falls (Sunday, June 7), or a one-day trip to Mount Tremblant (Sunday, June 7). Registration and more information is forthcoming on these events.
Theme: Global to Local Language Assessment
One increasing area of interest in our field is the extent to which assessment activities are situated in their relevant contexts (DeLuca et al., 2019). Contexts may refer to anything from the micro-context of a language classroom to macro-contexts of the societies where large-scale language tests operate, including pedagogical, linguistic, social, and political elements (Saville, 2012). As Jin (2017) notes, “Context is vitally important in conceptualizing the construct and specifying the content of language learning, teaching, and assessment” (p. 1). The 47 th LTRC will focus on this tension between global and local concerns, such as the search for universal scales and models for large scale language tests vs. the drive to explore local context-bound assessment needs and practices.
