Presentations

McKay, T. H., Sağdıç, A., & Teimouri, Y. (2018, October). More on the validity and reliability of C-test scores: A meta-analysis of C-test studies. East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT): Seventeenth Annual Conference, Educational Testing Service, October 13. (.pdf and .ppt formats)

McKay, T., Kim, A. I., & Malone, M. E. (2018, March). STARTALK: Understanding the ACTFL guidelines. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2018, Chicago, IL.

Xu, Y., McKay, T. H., & Malone, M. E. (2018, March). Developing a Chinese C-test for research purposes. Presentation at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2018 (AAAL), Chicago, IL.

Xu, Y., McKay, T. H., & Malone, M. E. (2018, March). Developing a Chinese C-test for research purposes. Language Assessment Research Conference 2018, Ames, IA.

Malone, M., McKay, T., & Kim, A. (2017, December). STARTALK: Understanding the ACTFL Guidelines. Presentation to the Interagency Roundtable Testing Committee at the National Foreign Language Center, December 8.

Son, Y. A., McKay, T., & Kim, A. (2017, January). The C-test project. Presentation to the Interagency Language Roundtable Testing Committee at the Foreign Service Institute, January 13.

McKay, T., Kim, A. I., & Malone, M. (2017, December). STARTALK: Understanding the ACTFL guidelines. Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) meeting, National Foreign Language Center (NFLC), Riverdale Park, MD.

McKay, T. H. (2016, August). Tasks for the transition: Identifying the practical English-language needs of college students in Bangladesh. University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), August 14.

McKay, T. H., Bryfonski, L., & Bogachenko, T. (2016, March). How common is common? Addressing task-based innovation and implementation issues in Bangladesh, Honduras, and Ukraine. Paper presented at the Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) in Linguistics, Washington, D.C.

Sasayama, S., Raish, M., & McKay, T. H. (2015, October). The C-test format and non-Latinate orthographies: Text selection and deletion strategies for Japanese, Bangla, and Arabic. East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT): Fourteenth Annual Conference, Georgetown University, October 9.

McKay, T. H. (2015, September). A task-based needs analysis in Bangladesh: Issues and insights for the South Asian context. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, Leuven, Belgium. 

McKay, T. H. (2012, June). Improving speaking skills via low-resource materials development. English Teacher Development Program: Developing Skills-Based Learning in ELT, Mymensingh, Bangladesh, June 29.

McKay, T. H. (2012, June). Reflections on ELT in Bangladesh. Collaboration across Cultures through ELT, Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 7.