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---- H. G. Wells
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
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---- Mitch Hedberg
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
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---- Pablo Picasso
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Language Testing Conference
I’ve had an email from the KATE mailing list sitting in my inbox for a few days that I hadn’t looked at until today. There is a one day conference/seminar on validity in foriegn language assessment and Seoul National University on Monday August 8. Interestingly there isn’t any registation information in the email or info about costs. Just time and location. I am interested in hearing what Bachman has to say especially after having to read his incredibly heavy articles on testing in my unit on Language Testing and Assessment.
Due to the lack of information I may or may not go. I googled around and couldn’t find any online information about the conference at the Kate site or elsewhere. One thing that I thought was strange about the KATE mailing list is that the instructions on how to get there are only in Korean. Location is in Engish, but if you don’t know which building on campus that’s not particularly helpful. I’ve included the Korean directions at the bottom of the entry and will attempt to provide English directions sometime over the weekend.
KELTA (Korea English Language Testing Association) and Seoul National University FLERI (Foreign Language Education Research Institute) invite you to the second International Conference of KELTA, which will be held on the 8th of August, 2005.
The 2nd KELTA/SNU FLERI International Conference
Monday, August 8th, 2005
Venue: Room 102, Building 12, College of Education, Seoul National University
Validity Issues in Foreign Language Assessment
Invited Speakers:
Lyle Bachman (UCLA, USA)
Randy Thrasher (JLTA, JAPAN)
Program
13:00-14:00 Registration* & Socializing
14:00 - 14:20 Opening Ceremony
l Opening speech: Oryang Kwon (President, KELTA)
l Welcoming speech: Kwang-Sou Kwak (Director, FLERI)
l Congratulatory speech: Chung-Il Yun (Dean, College of Education, SNU)
14:30 - 15:30 Keynote Speech: Validity issues in web-based language assessment Lyle Bachman (UCLA) Moderater: Youngshik Lee (Hannam University)
15:30 - 16:10 Keynote speech: Validity by any other name Randolph Thrasher (President, Japan Language Testing Association) Moderator: Wonkey Lee (Seoul National University of Education)
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 Developing English proficiency assessment for civil aviation personnel Oryang Kwon (Seoul National Univ.) & Dongil Shin (Chung-Ang Univ.) Moderator: SangKun Shin (Ewha Womans University)
17:00 - 17:30 Examining the relationships between DIF and DTF Tae-Il Pae (Yeungnam University) & Gi-Pyo Park (Soonchunhyang University) Moderator: Haeng Jung (Honam University)
17:30 - 18:00 Scrutinizing the relationship between writers’ perception on topic and their performance on a field-specific writing test Hee-Kyung Lee (Yonsei University) Moderator: Dongwan Cho (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
18:00 - 18:20 Business Meeting
18:30 - 20:00 Reception (Faculty Club House)
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Directions in Korean
대회장 안내
(서울대학교 사범대학 12동 102호 대형강의실)
* 오시는 길
<대중교통편>
지하철 2호선 낙성대역 4번 출구 (에스컬레이터 이용)
→ LG주유소 뒤편 장블랑제리 제과 앞 서울대행 02번 마을버스 승차 (지도의 좌측 화살표 지점)
→ 서울대 노천강당 하차 (지도의 우측 화살표지점)
사범대학으로 걸어 내려오면 오른쪽 첫 번 건물이 12동임
서울대학교 후문 (낙성대)
→ 후문 통과 후 300M 지나 삼거리에서 좌회전
→ 40M 지나서 바로 우회전 (진입로 입구에 G7이라는 표시가 있고 차단기가 있음)
150M 정도 내려오면 우측이 사범대학 건물임.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Jul 29, 2005 at 07:06 PM
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