Best Student Paper Award

Call for Submissions

 For the first time, MwALT is going to offer an award for the best graduate student paper written on a language testing or assessment topic. We cordially invite you to submit papers written for graduate level courses in the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years.  Completed research and/or critical literature reviews with a language testing or assessment focus are eligible.

Submission Deadline and Award Announcement Date:

Papers should be submitted electronically by Monday, June 15th, 2009.

The award will be announced at the 11^th MwALT conference Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Saturday, November 7, 2009.

Instructions for submission:

Papers of no more than 30 pages including references (APA style) should be submitted electronically to MwALTatOEPP@purdue.edu.  Attach the abstract and the paper as a word file to an email with the subject header as “Best Paper Award Submission – your name.”  Electronic papers submitted without the correct header may be lost.

Abstracts are required and should be no longer than 250 words.

 On a separate page, please include the following:

a. Title of the paper;

b. Name of the author, the graduate course number, course title, professor of record, and the institutional affiliation including the location of the institution. Do not use acronyms when giving institutional affiliations;

c. Surface mail address of correspondent;

e. E-mail address of correspondent;

f. Telephone number of correspondent.

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