Carol Chapelle awarded grant from Educational Testing Service

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Carol Chapelle and Amy Hutchison (Associate Professor in the School of Education) received a two-year $120,000 grant from Educational Testing Service to conduct foundational research informing potential future development of English language tests using mobile-technology. The goal of the research is to complete a domain analysis paper focusing on the new language practices afforded by tablet technologies in K-12 classrooms and to develop task framework, task specifications and prototype assessment tasks in collaboration with ETS staff  (2013-2015).