{"id":434,"date":"2017-07-20T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T15:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/?p=434"},"modified":"2017-07-20T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T15:24:49","slug":"workshop-language-testing-academic-staff-business-communication-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/workshop-language-testing-academic-staff-business-communication-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on \u201cLanguage Testing\u201d for the Academic Staff of the Business Communication Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Business Communication Unit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Workshop on \u201cLanguage Testing\u201d for the Academic Staff of the Business<br \/>\nCommunication Unit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Business Communication Unit is organizing a Workshop on \u201cLanguage<br \/>\nTesting\u201d for the Academic Staff of the Business Communication Unit on 24 th July<br \/>\n2017 from 9.00 am to 12. 00 noon at the Board Room of the Faculty of<br \/>\nManagement Studies and Commerce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Resource Person &#8211; Prof. Priyanvada Abeywickrama<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/abeywickrama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-432\" src=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/abeywickrama-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"abeywickrama\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/abeywickrama-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/abeywickrama-768x957.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/abeywickrama-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/abeywickrama.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The workshop will be conducted by Prof. Priyanvada Abeywickrama from the<br \/>\nDepartment of English Language and Literature, San Francisco State University.<br \/>\nShe is co-editor of TESOL\u2019s Applied Linguistics Interest Section forum and is co-<br \/>\nauthor with H. D. Brown of Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom<br \/>\nPractices (2nd ed.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Professor Abeywickrama has taught TESL methods and language assessment in a<br \/>\nvariety of contexts, including in the MATESOL program at California State<br \/>\nUniversity, Los Angeles, and for the U.S. State Department sponsored Uzbek<br \/>\nTeacher Training Program. Her research combines her interests in language<br \/>\nassessment with issues in second language literacy. A secondary area of her<br \/>\nresearch is discourse analysis in code switching. She frequently presents her<br \/>\nresearch at the annual conferences of International TESOL, the American<br \/>\nAssociation for Applied Linguistics, and the Language Testing Research<br \/>\nColloquium (LTRC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce Business Communication Unit Workshop on \u201cLanguage Testing\u201d for the Academic Staff of the Business Communication Unit The Business Communication Unit is organizing a Workshop on \u201cLanguage Testing\u201d for the Academic Staff of the Business Communication Unit on 24 th July 2017 from 9.00 am to 12. 00 noon at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}