Best Official Languages Act Podcasts (2024)

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JCL - Gender and the Politics of War Historiography in ‘Destination Biafra’ 9:10

3y ago9:10

9:10

Sarah Jilani presents the doctoral research ‘Gender and the Politics of War Historiography in ‘Destination Biafra’ which explores how the Nigerian writer’s novel challenges war historiography through a ‘female perspective’ that scholarship has sometimes overlooked.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 34 33:04

3y ago33:04

33:04

Glenn Fulcher presents his last podcast in which he discusses the history of the podcast as well as the history of Language Testing in his 20 years of serving the journal. Posted October 2021

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JCL - The Australian Reifungsroman: Reading women’s ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide 12:00

3y ago12:00

12:00

Yuanhang Liu presents her article ‘The Australian Reifungsroman: Reading women’s ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide. Posted September 2021.

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JCL - Between Madras and Chennai: Narratives of Belonging in a Post-colonial City 11:33

3+ y ago11:33

11:33

Kavithaa Rajamony presents her article Between Madras and Chennai: Narratives of Belonging in a Post-colonial City. Posted February 2021.

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JCL - Jagadish Chandra Bose and the anticolonial politics of science fiction 39:46

3+ y ago39:46

39:46

Höne, Christin and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay discuss Christin’s article Jagadish Chandra Bose and the anticolonial politics of science fiction.

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JCL - Precariousness, Kinship, and Care: Becoming Human in Claire Cameron’s The Last Neanderthal 30:31

3+ y ago30:31

30:31

Rūta Šlapkauskaitė and Andrius Ledas discuss Rūta’s article Precariousness, kinship, and care: Becoming human in Claire Cameron’s The Last Neanderthal. Posted December 2020.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 32 18:19

3+ y ago18:19

18:19

Glenn Fulcher discusses the Special Issue on Repeated Test-Taking and Longitudinal Test Score Analysis with guest editor Anthony Green.

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Animals, Others, and Postcolonial Ecomasculinities: Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden 6:44

4y ago6:44

6:44

Animals, Others, and Postcolonial Ecomasculinities: Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden

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JCL - Representing the Representers 24:07

4y ago24:07

24:07

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: JCL - Rethinking Powers of Political: The National Emergency and the J.P. Movement in Rahi Masoom Raza’s Katra Bi Arzoo 10:13

4+ y ago10:13

10:13

JCL - Rethinking Powers of Political: The National Emergency and the J.P. Movement in Rahi Masoom Raza’s Katra Bi Arzoo

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 30 19:15

5y ago19:15

19:15

Glenn Fulcher interviews Bart Deygers to discuss language assessment literacy in university admission policies

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 29 18:52

5+ y ago18:52

18:52

Glenn Fulcher and Judit Kormos explore the field of test accommodations. Read the associated article here. Posted March 2019.

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JCL – “Fractured territories: Deterritorializing the contemporary Pakistani novel in English” 22:24

5+ y ago22:24

22:24

JCL – “Fractured territories: Deterritorializing the contemporary Pakistani novel in English”: Paul Veyret and Trevor Harris discuss Veyret’s recent article on contemporary Pakistani fiction in English. Posted February 2019.

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JCL – “An Act of Geographical Violence: Crime, Literature, and the Colonial Compulsion” 9:58

5+ y ago9:58

9:58

JCL – “An Act of Geographical Violence: Crime, Literature, and the Colonial Compulsion”: Molly Slavin and Benjamin Bergholtz discuss Slavin’s new article on imperialism as an act of geographical violence. Posted February 2019.

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JCL – “Reading the whiteness of British Asian literature” 19:24

6+ y ago19:24

19:24

JCL – “Reading the whiteness of British Asian literature": Kavita Bhanot discusses her recent article

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 27 18:40

6+ y ago18:40

18:40

Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 27: Glenn Fulcher and Stefanie Wind discuss the evaluation of rating quality.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 26 17:07

7y ago17:07

17:07

Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 26: Professor Glenn Fulcher and Professor Sara Cushing discuss corpus linguistics and language testing

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The Significance of Magical Realism in the Novels of Elechi Amadi 9:50

7+ y ago9:50

9:50

Dr Kenneth Usongo discusses his new research on the significance of magical realism in the novels of Elechi Amadi

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JCL – Samuel Selvon’s “Turning Christian” podcast 20:14

8y ago20:14

20:14

Hyacinth Simpson, Kris Singh and Asha Varadharajan discuss Samuel Selvon’s short story “Turning Christian”.

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Predicting grades from an English language assessment 11:53

8y ago11:53

11:53

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Dr Lisa Lau and Dr Ana Cristina Mendes discuss their new research 7:39

8y ago7:39

7:39

Dr Lisa Lau and Dr Ana Cristina Mendes discuss their new research on “Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.”

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JCL Podcast 2 35:24

8y ago35:24

35:24

Associate Professor Anne Collett and Dr Michael Griffiths discuss Dr Griffiths’ new research on ‘“The Fortunate Traveller” in Transit: On a Walcott Manuscript and the Vicissitudes of North and South.’

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Special Issue - “LSP Testing for Health Professionals” 17:15

8y ago17:15

17:15

Professor Glenn Fulcher and Dr Catherine Elder discuss research on LSP Testing for Health Professionals. Posted March 2016

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy Podcast 10 8:12

9y ago8:12

8:12

Evaluation of core vocabulary therapy for deaf children: Four treatment case studies

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Language Testing Bytes: Diagnostic Language Testing 16:10

9y ago16:10

16:10

Number of speakers: 2- Glen Fulcher/ Eunice Jang

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 21 22:16

9+ y ago22:16

22:16

Glenn Fulcher and Hyejeong Kim discuss assessing aviation English at the University of Leicester

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy Podcast 9 20:51

9+ y ago20:51

20:51

Christina Samuelsson and Charlotta Plejert discuss their article on the use of Conversation Analysis and retrospection in intervention for children with language impairment. Posted March 2015

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 20 20:21

9+ y ago20:21

20:21

In this podcast Martin East describes an assessment reform project in New Zealand. Posted January 2014

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy Podcast 8 9:16

10y ago9:16

9:16

Sarah Maso and Elise Baker discuss their article about how children with phonological impairment respond to requests for clarification containing polysyllables. Posted November 2014

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 19 20:21

10y ago20:21

20:21

Fred Davidson and Cary Lin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign discuss the role of statistics. Posted October 2014

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy 14:22

10y ago14:22

14:22

Silke Fricke interviews Blanca Schaefer and Indra Sinka about their article on the development of the New Reynell Developmental Language Scales and of a Multilingual Toolkit for use with children from linguistic and cultural backgrounds other than English, published in Volume 30 Issue 1 of Child Language Teaching and Therapy. Posted July 2014.…

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 18 13:21

10y ago13:21

13:21

Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder from the University of Amsterdam discuss rater variability in the assessment of speaking and writing in a second language.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 17 16:43

10+ y ago16:43

16:43

In this podcast Ryo Nitta and Fumiyo Nakatsuhara discuss whether providing pre-task planning time impacts upon the scores and talk of test takers in a paired-format speaking test. Posted May 2014.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast 16: Morphological analyses in language samples 24:23

10+ y ago24:23

24:23

Jodi Tommerdahl and Cynthia Kilpatrick discuss their paper on the reliability of morphological analyses in language samples.

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy Podcast 6: Treating the Passive in Children with Specific Language Impairments 9:09

10+ y ago9:09

9:09

James Law interviews Nick Riches about his research on treating the passive in children with specific language impairments.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast 15: Eye-tracking 13:24

11y ago13:24

13:24

Stephen Bax talks about his paper on eye-tracking and what it can tell us about how successful readers go about processing items and texts in reading tests.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast 14: Special issue on Assessment Literacy in Language Testing 25:35

11y ago25:35

25:35

Ofra Inbar, guest editor, talks about the special issue and the growing importance of assessment literacy in language testing.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast 13: Rater bias 10:20

11+ y ago10:20

10:20

Paula Winke and Susan Gass talk about rater bias in the assessment of speaking.

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy Podcast 5: Dynamic Assessment of Preschoolers Proficiency in Learning English 14:30

11+ y ago14:30

14:30

Nicola Botting discusses the dynamic assessment of preschoolers proficiency in learning English (DAPPLE) with Natalie Hasson and Bernard Camilleri.

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Language Testing Bytes 12: Assessment of Academic English 20:12

11+ y ago20:12

20:12

Alan Davies discusses the assessment of Academic English with Glenn Fulcher.

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Language Testing Bytes 11: Yes-No vocabulary tests 17:27

12y ago17:27

17:27

Ana Pellicer-Sanchez and Norbert Schmitt talk about the usefulness of yes-no vocabulary tests and the problems language testers face with scoring them.

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy Podcast 4: Phonological Representations 12:12

12y ago12:12

12:12

Mary Claesen and Suze Leitão discuss their article on the performance of children with specific language impairments on two measures of phonological representations.

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Language Testing Bytes 10: Classroom based assessment 21:16

12y ago21:16

21:16

Kathryn Hill talks about classroom based assessment and her new framework for describing how teachers use assessment as a classroom tool.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast 9: Standard accents on tests of listening 15:39

12+ y ago15:39

15:39

Luke Harding discusses why many language test providers only use standard accents on tests of listening.

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy Podcast 3: Reading programmes for children with Downs syndrome 13:23

12+ y ago13:23

13:23

Pam Baylis and Maggie Snowling evaluate a phonological reading programme for children with Downs syndrome.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast 8: Scoring performance tests 16:50

12+ y ago16:50

16:50

Tan Jin and Barley Mak discuss approaches to scoring performance tests based on fuzzy logic.

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Language Testing Bytes Podcast 7: Measurement Models 11:42

13y ago11:42

11:42

Mark Wilson discusses Measurement Models.

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy Podcast 2: Working memory and language impairments 8:12

13y ago8:12

8:12

Lisa Archibald talks about her two papers on working memory and language impairment.

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy Podcast 1: Evaluating intervention and service provision in schools 13:47

13y ago13:47

13:47

Joy Stackhouse and Jannet Wright discuss their special issue on evaluating intervention and service provision in schools for children with speech, language and communication needs.