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Antony John Kunnan
Language Assessment Website
Selected conference talks, 2010-2025; for more talks, see my CV

2025 [4]
[152-153] 75 years of language assessment: Representation and fairness. AALA Conf., Penang; ALTE Conf., Pecs.
[151] The need to integrate teaching and assessment. Teaching and Testing Conf. Melaka.
[150] Assessing languages around the world. LARC, Fullerton.
2024 [13]
[149] Integrating teaching, learning and assessment, VNU-ISEE, Hanoi
[148] AI and language assessment. Mindanao State University.
[143-147] Four lectures on Assessing Language. Hanoi University of Industry.
[142] Scenario-based language assessment. Vietnam Military Colleges, Ho Chi Minh City.
[141] The role of AI in language assessment. Vietnam Military Colleges, Ho Chi Minh City.
[140] Integrating language teaching, learning, and assessment. VNU Univ., Hanoi.
[139] Reforming language assessment, LTRC, Innsbruck.
[136-38] A case for a scenario-based language assessment. LTTC, Taipei;
Chulalongkorn University Language Inst.;
Chiang Mai Rajabhat Univ.
[135] Publishing in the field of language education. Bangkok
[134] Ethics in language assessment with Asian case studies, Chulalongkorn University
[133] Immigrant attainment of English: Impressions from the field, LARC, Utah.
2023 [8]
[132] Innovations in language assessment. Workshop, AALA, Tokyo.
[131] Voices of minority researchers, Special session, LTRC, New York.
[130] Language assessment for immigration and citizenship. Workshop, LTRC, New York.
[129] Authenticity in the age of AI: Using GPT-4. Education Univ of HK.
[128] What is the future of digital language assessment? AAAL Conference, Portland.
[127] Integrated language skills in teaching and assessment. TESOL Arabia, Dubai.
[126] Scenario-based language assessment. University of Southern California.
2022 [7]
[125] Innovation in language assessment. AFELTA/CULI Conference, Bangkok.
[124] Scenario-based language assessment. AFELTA-CULI Conference, Bangkok.
[123] Considering language assessment scenarios. AALA Conference, Chennai.
[122] Applying a fairness and justice framework in the Indian Context, AALA Conf., Chennai.
[121] Integrating language skills, UECA Conference, Gold Coast, Australia (v)
[120] What is the future of language assessment? Asia TEFL Conference, Malang.
[118-119] Scenario-based language assessment: AAAL Conf., Pittsburgh; LTRC, Tokyo (v)
2021 [9]
[116-117] On the historiography of U.S. immigration, citizenship, and language policies. Teachers College, Columbia University (v); California State University, LA (v)
[112-115] Innovative language assessment: Scenario-based approach. AALA Conference. Seoul, South Korea. (v); UK ALTA, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. (v); Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, UAE. (v)
[111] Scenario-based language assessment. Workshop for English-Australia, Australia. (v)
[110] Standards and Ethics. King Sejong Institute of Korea, South Korea. (v)
[109] Teaching English Abroad. California State University, Fullerton, USA. (v)
[108] Language assessment for citizenship: The USNT. Duolingo, Pittsburgh, USA. (v)
2020 [3]
[107] Evaluating language assessments: Fairness and Justice. Duolingo, Pittsburgh, USA. (v)
[106] Assessment for Language for Specific Purposes, Moscow, Russia. (v)
[105] Publishing in language assessment. ILTA Webinar. (v=virtual)
2019 [6]
[104] TEPS 20th anniversary Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
[103] Multilingualism and assessment. AALA Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam.
[102] Evaluating fairness and justice in language assessments. JLTA Conference, Niigata, Japan.
[101] Individual and institutional responsibility in language assessment. Melakka. Malaysia.
[100] Institutional responsibility in justifying language assessments. HK Institute of Linguists.
[99] Panel discussion on technology in language assessment. HK, British Council.
2018 [10]
[98] Fairness and Justice in language assessment. KATE Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
[97] How do we make teachers responsible language assessors? Asia TEFL Conference. Macau.
[96] Fairness and justice in language assessment, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
[95] Developing score report cards for teacher, student, and parent. City Univ. of Hong Kong.
[94] Diagnostic feedback from classroom assessments. University of Hong Kong.
[93] Multilingualism and language assessment. Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University.
[92] ESP assessment: The case of technology. ALTE plenary talk, Cluj, Romania.
[91] Fairness and justice in language assessment. ALTE Conference, Cluj, Romania.
[90] Diagnosis feedback as opportunity-to-learn. Workshop at UTHM, Batu Pahat, Malaysia.
[89] Learning about assessment knowledge. ASEAN ELT Conference, Melakka, Malaysia.
2015-17 (13)
[88] Internationally or locally developed language assessments. AFELTA Conference, Taipei.
[87] Workshop on “Learning about assessment knowledge thru scenarios.” AALA Conf. Taipei.
[86] Language assessment policies for citizenship. Seoul National University, South Korea.
[85] Classroom language assessment. Talk. Malaysian International Conference on ELT.
[84] Classroom language assessment. Symposium, Malaysian International Conference on ELT.
[83] Automated scoring. Chinese Computational Linguistics Conference, Guangzhou, China.
[76-82] How do we evaluate a language assessment?
Asia TEFL, Nanjing, China; Asia TEFL, Workshop, Nanjing, China
British Council Conference, Seoul, South Korea;
MICELT, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Anniversary of GDUFS, Guangzhou, China;
TEFLIN Conference, Denpasar, Indonesia
AALA Conf., Bangkok, Thailand [Presidential address].
2010-2012 (20)
[63] Fairness and justice: principles. Language Testing and Training, Taipei, Taiwan.
[61-62] Evaluating language assessments:
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan; University of Bologna, Part 1 and 2, Italy.
[60] Panel discussion. SCALAR Conference, UCLA, USA.
[59] Portability of the CEFR & international English language tests. LTRC, Princeton, NJ., USA
[58] Immigration and citizenship testing. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, SAR China.
[57] Multilingualism and language assessment. AILA [World Congress], Beijing, China.
[56] High-stakes tests. Korean English Language Testing Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
[55] Test Fairness in test development. ALTE Conference/Charles University, Prague, Czech.
[54] Issues in test fairness. ALTE Conference/Charles Univ., Prague, Czech
[53] Issues in language assessment: A colloquium. American Univ. in Armenia, Yerevan.
[52] What evidence do we need to evaluate language assessments? HK Polytechnic University.
[51] Assessment Evaluation Framework. National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan.
[50] Differential Item Functioning. Language Testing and Training Centre, Taipei, Taiwan.
[45-49] Assessment data issues:
Shanghai Jiatong University, China;
Seoul National University, South Korea,
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China;
Applied Linguistics Program, UCLA, USA, Apple Lecture, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.
[44] Language assessment for immigration and citizenship. Columbia University, USA.



























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