发言专家：Deborah Healey, TESOL International Association, US
发言题目：Reading and writing in a digital world
As language teachers, we are concerned with literacy: the ability to understand, critically analyze, and create and share information in a way that others can understand it. These days, literacy starts with text-based reading and writing and continues into digital literacy. The American Library Association’s Digital Literacy Task Force defines digital literacy as “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.”
Though many people believe that learners today are experts with technology, this is not quite true. Learners today still need critical thinking skills and awareness of tools outside of social media. This session demonstrates some approaches to finding, judging, saving, and sharing digital information. Healey discusses using open-access journals, digital curation, collaborative writing, authentic audience, and other apps and sites as aids for writing and reading in a digital world.
专家简介：Deborah Healey is the 2020–2021 past president (2019–2020 president) of TESOL International Association. She has taught online and face-to-face teacher training courses, primarily focusing on technology in education. She has also taught both ESL and EFL at community colleges and language institutes. She is a contributor to two TESOL Technology Standards publications, as well as the TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, the Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology, CALL Environments, and A Handbook for Language Program Administrators. She has written and presented extensively in the United States and internationally, including in Turkey, Nigeria, Malaysia, Korea, Uruguay, Tunisia, England, Indonesia, Georgia, Croatia, Serbia, the West Bank, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and Thailand.
发言题目：Best Practice
in English Language Exam Development
发言专家：Christine Coombe, Dubai Men's College, UAE
This session
focuses on the principles of test design and item construction that underpin
good testing practice, but it presupposes no prior knowledge of testing.
Participants will be provided with the essential theoretical and practical
background that they need to construct their own tests or to evaluate other
tests.
简介：Christine
Coombe has a Ph.D in Foreign/Second Language Education from The Ohio State
University. She is currently an Associate Professor of General
Studies at Dubai Men's College. She is the former Testing and
Measurements Supervisor at UAE University and Assessment Coordinator
of Zayed University. Christine's
forthcoming books are on innovation in the MENA, research questions
in TESOL and Applied Linguistics and professionalism
in education.
