1. Brno, Sept. 2016 STANAG 6001 Testing Workshop BILC Update
Emilija Nesheva,
BILC Secretary

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

4. 2016 BILC Conference Riga, Latvia, 22-26 May
Theme: From goals to outcomes: measuring success
Topics:
- Creating courses and validating their effectiveness
- Accreditation of courses
- Applying quality assurance measures to language programs
- Creating coherence across different assessments in a language program
- 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 Professional Seminar, Budapest, Hungary, 23-28 October
Theme: Authenticity in training and testing: making it real
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

6. Testing Seminars
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

7. Why Have Annual STANAG 6001 Testing Workshops?
Need for periodic renorming / standardization
Chance to update approaches and knowledge of proficiency testing
Forum for exchanging ideas / lessons learned

8. BILC STANAG 6001 Testing Workshops
Zagreb, 2009
Focus on standardization, moderation and validation
Sarajevo, 2010
Focus on testing speaking
Stockholm, 2011
Focus on testing writing
Copenhagen, 2012
Focus on testing listening
SHAPE Mons, 2013
Focus on integrating test development stages
Reichenau, 2014
Focus on item development practices
Vilnius, 2015
- Challenges in STANAG 6001 testing

10. BILC 2017 Calendar (draft) Date Event 13-24 February
Language Testing Seminar (LTS), ACT
Partner Language Training Center Europe; Garmisch, Germany
14-23 March
English Teaching Faculty Development Workshop, ACT.659.1
24 April - 12 May
Advanced Language Testing Seminar (ALTS), ACT 658.1
14-18 May
BILC Conference, ACT
Vienna, Austria
Theme: TBD
12-23 June
Language Testing Seminar (LTS), ACT
11-20 July
English Teaching Faculty Development Workshop, ACT.659.3
Foreign Languages Department; Shumen, Bulgaria
25 July - 3 August
Language Standards & Assessment Seminar (LSAS), ACT 648.2
September
STANAG 6001 Testing Workshop, ACT
Location: TBD
Theme: TBD
19-28 September
English Teaching Faculty Development Workshop, ACT.659.2
October
BILC Professional Seminar, ACT
Tbilisi, Georgia
7-16 November
English Teaching Faculty Development Workshop, ACT.659.4
School of Foreign Languages; Poljče, Slovenia
28 November –
7 December
Language Standards & Assessment Seminar (LSAS), ACT 648.3

12. BILC site: www.natobilc.org BILC e-mail address: chairman@natobilc.org
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