LARC 2025 Conference Presentationโ€”Investigating Convergent Validity Evidence of an English Literacy Test

Investigating Convergent Validity Evidence of an English Literacy Test Date & Time: April 4, 2025 | 05:00โ€“05:30 p.m. PDT Location: LARC, Fullerton, CA Presenter(s): Yage Leah Guo (Center for Applied Linguistics) Reshmi Kompakha Rachel Myers Anna Zilberberg Description: Building a validity argument involves examining the relationships between test scores and other measures intended to assess ... Read more

LARC 2025 Conference Presentationโ€”PreK-8 Oral Proficiency Assessment: Free Tools and Training for Educators

PreK-8 Oral Proficiency Assessment: Free Tools and Training for Education Date & Time: April 5, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.โ€“12:00 p.m. PDT Location: LARC, Fullerton, CA Presenter(s): Elyssa Sun Jamie Morgan Leslie Fink Rachel Myers Jenna Bushton Description: Interest in PK-8 world language (WL) programs has increased in recent years, and there is a growing need ... Read more

LARC 2025 Conference Presentationโ€”Examining Alternate-Form Reliability in Adult ESL Literacy Assessments: A Case Study

Examining Alternate-Form Reliability in Adult ESL Literacy Assessments: A Case Study Date & Time: April 5, 2025 | 04:00โ€“04:30 p.m. PDT Location: California State University, Fullerton Presenter(s): Leah Guo (Center for Applied Linguistics) Aubrey Sahouria (Center for Applied Linguistics) Leslie Fink(Center for Applied Linguistics) Description: One essential quality of any good assessment is reliability, which ... Read more

CAL Spanish-English Biliteracy Instruction (ยกen espaรฑol!): Foundations

April 7โ€“10 and 14โ€“15, 2025 Cรณmo fomentar el desarrollo de la lengua y lectoescritura: Diferencias lingรผรญsticas entre el espaรฑol y el inglรฉs y su impacto en la enseรฑanza de la lengua y lectoescritura bilingรผe This interactive institute, formerly known as the Spanish Language and Literacy institute, is designed to provide participants with research-based, effective methods ... Read more

2025 AAAS Conference Roundtableโ€”The Lapdog Syndrome: Polyethnographies of Asian Women Navigating Power and Identity

The Lapdog Syndrome: Polyethnographies of Asian Women Navigating Power and Identity Date & Time: April 19, 2025 | 2:45 โ€“ 4:15 p.m ET Location: Alcott Room, The Westin Boston Seaport District, Boston, MA Presenter(s):  Christine Montecillo Leider, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Minh Nghia Nguyen, University of Massachusetts, Boston Alisha Nguyen, Lesley University Diep Nguyen, Center ... Read more

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentationโ€”A Graduate Student Perspective on ELT Preparation to Advance the Decolonization/Decolonial Project in TESOL/applied Linguistics

A Graduate Student Perspective on ELT Preparation to Advance the Decolonization/Decolonial Project in TESOL/Applied Linguistics Date & Time: April 24, 2025 | 09:50โ€“11:20 a.m. MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3G Presenter(s): Sarah Howard Description: Fostering critical dispositions (McClure & Vasconcelos, 2011) and equipping future language educators with the ... Read more

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentationsโ€”Instructional Quality in Collaborative Teaching: What Factors Support or Impede It? 

Instructional Quality in Collaborative Teaching: What Factors Support or Impede It?  Date & Time: April 24, 2025 | 1:45โ€“3:15 p.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 711 Presenter(s): Sarah Howard Description: Co-teaching is a prominent instructional model used to provide integrated language and content learning for EL-designated multilingual learners (Kibler ... Read more

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentationโ€”Teachersโ€™ Development of Critical Consciousness around Multilingual Families

Teachers' Development of Critical Consciousness Around Multilingual Families Date & Time: April 25, 2025 | 9:50โ€“11:20 0.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 711 Presenter(s): Sarah Howard Description: Fundamental to teachersโ€™ culturally relevant instructional practices is their knowledge of students and families (Gay, 2010; Ladson-Billings, 2014), but teachers typically receive ... Read more

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentationโ€”Developing a Classroom Assessment System in Science: Centering Educatorsโ€™ and Multilingual Studentsโ€™ Voices

Developing a Classroom Assessment System in Science: Centering Educatorsโ€™ and Multilingual Studentsโ€™ Voices Date & Time: April 25, 2025 | 1:30 โ€“ 3:00 p.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 403 Presenter(s): Keira Ballantyne, Brittany York, Amy Burden, Ivanna Anderson Description: The Multilingual Multimodal Science Inventory (M2-Si) is a classroom ... Read more

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentationโ€”Design Principles for Opportunity and Thriving: Centering Multilingual Learners in Formative Assessment

Design Principles for Opportunity and Thriving: Centering Multilingual Learners in Formative Assessment Date & Time: April 26, 2025 | 11:40 a.m. โ€“ 1:25 p.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 403 Presenter(s): Amy Burden, Ivanna Anderson, Keira Ballantyne, Brittany York Description: We present the process for selecting design principles that ... Read more

Newcomers in Your School: Cultural Connections and Instructional Strategies

May 7, 14, and 21, 2025 Learn effective strategies and activities to increase your newcomer studentsโ€™ inclusion and learning in the classroom. Please join CAL for this engaging and interactive three-day virtual institute providing practical resources for building a welcoming environment, both socially and instructionally, for all students. LEARN MORE