2026, Sarajevo, BIH: Are You Truly Listening? Advancing Standardization and Quality Assurance in Listening Assessment

Programme

Presentations

  1. BILC update Laura Murto, BILC Chair
  2. Host nation presentation, LTC Hajrudin Bakaran, BIH
  3. Host nation presentation, LTC Ishak Ahmetović, BIH
  4. History of the Testing Workshop, Peggy Garza, BILC
  5. Evolving constructs in a changing world, Mary Jo Biase, USA
  6. From Linear to Adaptive Listening Assessment: Best Practices in an Expert-Assembled MST Model, Maja Gjurovikj and Vladimir Trpkoski, MKD
  7. Computer-Delivered Assessment of Listening: Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices, Tamar Shavlakadze, GEO
  8. Going once… going twice… sold? Exploring Repeated Listening in Military Language Testing, Kris Brams, BEL
  9. Measuring Language, Not Test-Taking: How Test Formats Influence Construct Validity in STANAG 6001 Assessments, Carina Andrade Dos Santos, NATO
  10. Are you truly listening? How your view of the world biases your understanding, Karl Testor, AUT
  11. How often is “sometimes”? Interpreting frequency expressions in language proficiency descriptors, Gerard Seinhorst, NLD
  12. Chair Closing Remarks

BILC Working Groups and Courses

  1. STANAG 6001 working group: update, Julie Dubeau, CAN
  2. Shared Item Bank Project
    1. Shared Item Bank Project Update, Merit Kompus, EST
    2. Shared item Bank READING Anchor Items Usage Feedback, Inga Fārte-Zālīte, LVA
  3. JTAC Project Update, Kåre Kildevang Jakobsen, DNK
  4. PLTCE’s Language Testing Seminars / PLTCE update, Peggy Garza

Parallel Sessions

Short summaries

  1. Sharing AI Tools in Language Testing; Facilitators: Dr Mary Jo Di Biase-Lubrano, USA and Inga Fārte-Zālīte, LVA
  2. Selecting and Rating Authentic Listening Passages with a STANAG 6001 Alignment Table; Facilitators: Dr Ray Clifford and Dr Matthew Wilcox, USA
  3. The text mapping procedure; Facilitator: Ancuta Solomon, ROU
  4. Listening Item Moderation; Facilitator: Hege Kristine Skilleås, NOR
  5. Collaborative Development of Listening Test Items: The Shared Item Bank Experience; Facilitators: Suzana Horvat, HRV, and Tadeja Hafner, SVN
  6. Assessment Engineering in Practice: Leveraging AI and Task Models to Generate STANAG-Aligned Listening Items; Facilitator: Petia Alexieva, USA

Digital Posters

Panel Discussions

  1. Level 1 listening texts and items: challenges and solutions; Moderator: Tom Labidi, BEL
  2. Authentic language and ELF considerations (accents and English varieties; Moderator: Peggy Garza, BILC
  3. From national practices to best practices in listening assessment; Moderator: Andrea Gjorevski, PLTCE

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