Welcome to MATSDA

The Materials Development Association brings together teachers, researchers, writers and publishers from all over the world to help inform the field of materials development for language learning. CLICK HERE to watch a video describing MATSDA in more detail.

Membership to MATSDA entitles you to a year's subscription and online access to back issues of its journal, Folio, plus reduced rates for MATSDA conferences and workshops.

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The MATSDA/Bilingual International School Conference

Materials for Testing

Wednesday June 21^st - Thursday June 22^nd, 2023

Villa di Poggio Reale in Rufina near Florence

Plenary Speakers

Dave Allan      Neus Figueras Casanovas      Alan Maley

Hitomi Masuhara     Barry O’Sullivan    

Brian Tomlinson     Carolyn Westbrook

Conference Focus

The Conference will focus on the development, adaptation and use of materials for testing. The materials could be designed to facilitate learner preparation for tests, learner participation in tests, the evaluation of learner performance and/or feedback on learner performance and the provision of learner follow up.

For the sake of the Conference a test will be considered to be any activity which aims to discover useful information about learner performance in a target language. The test could be informal or formal, formative or summative, lowstakes or high stakes, in a classroom or in an examination hall, with a pen and paper or with a computer.

Parallel Presentations

There will be over sixty parallel presentations lasting thirty minutes each. To submit an abstract for a presentation please send a 100-150 word summary of the proposed presentation to Brian Tomlinson at brianjohntomlinson@gmail.com

Poster Presentations

To submit an abstract for a poster presentation please send a 100-150 word summary of the proposed poster presentation to Brian Tomlinson at brianjohntomlinson@gmail.com

Conference Fees

Two Days

Participation fee = 175 Euros (including lunches, coffees and teas)

MATSDA members, members of MAWSIG, members of LEND and members of TESOL Italy pay 140 Euros.

Students pay 140 Euros.

One Day

Participation fee = 95 Euros (including lunches, coffees and teas)

MATSDA members, members of MAWSIG, members of LEND and members of TESOL Italy pay 80 Euros.

Students pay 80 Euros.

To enrol for the Conference and to enquire about methods of payment please contact Kristin Lanese at formazione@centrostudimugello.it

MATSDA Membership

To join MATSDA contact Siv Sears at siv.sears@gmail.com

Hotels

For information about hotels and any information about the venue please contact Kristin Lanese at formazione@centrostudimugello.it

The Venue

Here is a link to the venue for the Conference

https://www.comune.rufina.fi.it/villa-di-poggio-reale

Please distribute this information to anybody you think might be interested in joining the Conference.

See you in Tuscany in June 😊