PhD Students' Research

Mahmood Abasabadi

The washback effect of the Specialised English Test (SPE)

Zahra Al-Lawati

Investigating the characteristics of language test specifications and item writer guidelines, and their effect on item development

Lauren Barrows

Exploring anchor-based methods for judgementally estimating item difficulty in English for academic purposes reading test items

Lynn Blakes

Assessing the Reading Skills of EFL Young Learners

Yuhua Chen

A developmental study of lexical bundles in corpora of Chinese learners of English (completed 2009)

Karen Dunn

Investigating the construct of vocabulary knowledge

Nigel Downey

Listening at C1 Level? A Case Study of the Listening Section of the Advanced Level Certificate in English

Doris Froetscher

Washback of the Exit-Level Examination reform for Foreign Languages in Austria

Elizabeth Guerin

Assessment Literacy

Tania Horak

Issues in the assessment of ESOL students in adult, state sector provision in England in relation to the implementation of the Skills for Life Strategy

Chihiro Inoue

Identifying criterial differences in speaking proficiency levels of Japanese learners of English

Jun Shik Kim

Exploring Written Performance of Korean Candidates - Implications from Developmental Patterns of Morphosyntactic Features (completed 2010)

Geraldine Ludbrook

Investigating English language teaching performance competences for Italian CLIL teachers in the secondary school science
classroom

Gareth McCray

Quantitative modelling of difficulty in reading test items

Sangbok Park

The washback of a high-stakes test on the way students study: An investigation using insights from motivation  theory.

Geoffrey Shaw-Champion

The Interactive Speaking Task - Investigating the Construct

Paul Underwood

Predicting the Impact of Japan's Educational Reforms from Teacher Beliefs: A Study Using Insights from Social Psychology and Innovation Theory

Hiroko Usami

Application of corpora to multiple choice grammar questions

Theresa Weiler

Investigating the Construct of Language in Use Tasks