Research Projects

: The impact of Generative AI on academic language use: evidence from student practices and experiences
: A review of Reading indices for automated text analysis
: Review of the CEFR alignment of the Welsh for adults examinations

: The British Council Audit of critical features of Junior High School English textbooks in Japan
: Aptis Writing in real-life conditions : the impact of allowing access to spelling and grammar checking
: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Speaking test trial analyses - Phase 1
: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Speaking test trial analyses - Phase 2
: An investigation of how generative AI and tools such as Chat-GPT are used by language teachers
: Uruguay CEFR-linking
: BESTEP Speaking - CEFR benchmarking
: Relating LanguageCert examinations to the Canadian Benchmarks

: The British Council (Future of English): Digitally-mediated EMI communication in Higher Education classrooms: Transforming evidence to practical resources
: Critical review of task designs for speaking rests for lower proficiency learners
: (ARAG Assessment Research Grant): Towards new task types in a digital age: Perspectives from different educational contexts
: A comprehensive review and audit of special arrangements offered to IELTS test-takers with accessibility requirements: Safeguarding equity, access and inclusion
: Comparing IELTS Academic Writing Task 2 (ATW2) on computer and tablet: Test takers鈥� writing processes, performance and perception
: BC EnglishScore Knowledge Transfer Partnership
(Policy Support Fund): Ceibal en Ingl茅s Online National Speaking Test 鈥� Exploring the quality of the test-taker output language under online and face-to-face conditions
: Relationship between TOEFL iBT and academic writing practices in English medium universities in South Asia

: (ARAG Assessment Research Grant): Towards building an automated scoring model for assessing appropriate use of metadiscourse markers in Aptis Writing across CEFR levels: A multidisciplinary study
: Innovation in English language education in Japan: Reforming university entrance examinations
: Identifying types of reading elicited by the multi-text reading passage questions of the MET: An eye-tracking investigation
: Investigating the time extension accommodation for dyslexic test-takers
: An examination of content-related features of source text input and spoken output in an integrated speaking task
: Exploring the dynamic relationship between Dr GEPT feedback and learners鈥� motivation
: Enhancing ways to score summary responses on PTE academic integrated tasks: Comparing candidates鈥� performances across multiple modalities
: A longitudinal examination of English language improvement in a Mexican Higher education

: Content of speech as part of the IELTS Speaking Test construct: scale design and development
: The road to understanding in lecture listening: Cognitive processes engaged in the integration of auditory and textual information
: Defining the construct of Academic English in the digital age
: Comparability study of Eiken Grade 1 face-to-face and computer-based speaking test
: Comparing discourse features elicited in the face-to-face and CBT-Recorded modes of the Eiken Speaking Test Grade 1听
: Analysing language functions in the British Council-Lancaster Aptis Corpus
: Validating the methodology of text analysis.
: Analysis and research for OTE voicemail task听听

: EnglishScore free mobile English test development programme
BCERA: EAP Assessment project for Beijing College English Research Association
: Exploring the potential for assessing interactional and pragmatic competence in the Aptis Speaking Test
: Investigating the cognitive processes of B1, B2 and C1 students on listening and reading tasks: An eye-tracking study
: How are IELTS scores set and used for university admissions selection: A cross-institutional case study
: Academic speaking construct in the digital age
:听The development and validation of an online speaking test for young learners听
: Review of methods in a standard setting study to establish the minimum passing standard on the Writing compound of a ESP test

: Redeveloping the Primary English Adaptive Test in Uruguay: Vocabulary, Grammar, Reading & Listening
(ARAG Assessment Research Grant): Towards a model of multi-dimensional performance of C1 level speakers assessed in the Aptis Speaking Test
(ARAG Assessment Research Grant): Investigating the textual features and revising processes of EFL and L1 English writers
: Construct definition of speaking for secondary school students in China
: An examination of the impact of a blended language learning initiative on learners鈥� speaking performance
: Language learning gains among users of English Liulishuo
: An investigation of the features of effective summary writing elicited by听reading-writing and listening-writing tasks
: LanguageCert International ESOL examinations and the Common European Framework of Reference

: A critical review of the research literature pertaining to the IELTS Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking tests 1990-2015
: Towards new avenues for the IELTS Speaking Test: Insights from examiners鈥� voices.
: The effects of extended planning time on candidates鈥� performance and cognitive processes in the TOEFL iBT integrated speaking (lecture listening-into-speaking) tasks.
: Enhancing learning-oriented feedback for Cambridge English: First paired interactions.
and SRT Education: Developing and validating an online and mobile learning-oriented assessment platform for Chinese learners of English.
Validation of the Primary English Adaptive Test in Uruguay and its results: Vocabulary, Grammar, Reading & Listening
: Linking the IELTS test to the Course of 天美传媒 for high schools in Japan
Review of the Speaking and Writing Components of the Global Test of English Communication Computer-based Testing (GTEC CBT) for Japanese 天美传媒 Entrants
The Cambridge Malaysian Education and Development Trust (CMEDT): Review of CATs and development of a comparative product framework
: Relating a speaking teaching programme to the CEFR

: Learning-oriented feedback in the development and assessment of interactional competence.
(ARAG Assessment Research Grant): Scoring Validity of the Aptis Speaking test: Investigating Fluency across Tasks and Levels of Proficiency
: Developing open access online courses on language assessment for language teachers. Download handbook here
(Taiwan): GEPT Speaking-CEFR Benchmarking project.
: Examining the cognitive validity of the new ISE Reading/Writing paper

: Researching the cognitive processes of candidates taking IELTS Academic Writing Task 2 (AWT2) in paper mode and in computer mode, in terms of cognitive validity and cognitive equivalence
: An investigation into double-marking methods: comparing live, video and audio rating of performance on the IELTS Speaking Test
(Taiwan): Examining the cognitive validity of the GEPT High-Intermediate and Advanced Reading: An eye tracking study
: Revision of The EIKEN Test in Practical English Proficiency
: Impact study project at Ural Federal 天美传媒 in Ekaterinburg

: The impact of single and double play listening on candidate behaviour in tests of L2 listening
: Exploring performance across two delivery modes for the same L2 speaking test: Face-to-face and video-conferencing delivery
(Civil Aviation Authority): Safely Assessment of Foreign Aircraft (SAFA) Language Assessment (Phases 1-2)
: Computer-based analysis of metadiscourse in candidates' writing at Cambridge FCE, CAE, CPE levels
: Introducing opportunities for learning-oriented assessment to large-scale speaking tests
: Developing and validating the Test of English for Academic Purposes (TEAP)听
: Password Reading, Speaking and Listening
: Password Maintenance
(General Medical Council): Establishing equivalence of English language tests for medical registration and licensing
: Integrated Skills in English (ISE): Test development/validation project
: Examining the contextual and cognitive validity of the GEPT advanced writing test

: Comparing impact of modifying long-turn speaking task in Aptis for teenagers
: Eiken test review project
: TEAP Washback Project - A review of the washback concept in language education with particular implications for Japan and the EIKEN foundation of Japan organisation
Ltd: Password - Testing the English Language Skills of international Students at the Foundation level
: Examining the criterion-related validity of the GEPT advanced reading and writing tests: Comparing GEPT with IELTS and real-life academic performance
: Project to relate the Versant placement test to the CEFR听
TEMPUS IV Promoting sustainable excellence in testing and assessment of English听
: Consultancy for Trinity English Test听

/ IELTS: New Insights into cognitive processes: researching IELTS reading tasks though eye-tracking technology (Year 2)
/ ELTRPA: Researching cognitive processes during computer-based reading tests (Year 2)
Developing assessment literacies and practice in Singapore schools
: Researching capacity of Thai Nguyen 天美传媒 and Hai Phong 天美传媒, Vietnam, in terms of its readiness for internationalisation
and NCK 天美传媒 Taiwan: Researching capacity of NCK 天美传媒, Taiwan, in terms of its readiness for internationalisation
: Introducing opportunities for learning-oriented assessment to large-scale speaking tests (Year 1)
: Researching Cambridge language test in terms of their metadiscourse features at difference levels (Year 1)
:Textual features of CAE reading texts: CAE texts compared with reading texts from FCE, CPE and IELTS and with essential undergraduate textbooks (Year 2)
: TEAP Speaking Project - Developing and validating a speaking component of a new admission test for Japanese colleges and universities (Year 2)
: TEAP Writing Project - Developing and validating a writing component of a new admission test for Japanese colleges and universities (Year 2)
: TEAP Reading and Listening Project 鈥� Reviewing a reading and listening components of a new admission test for Japanese colleges and universities
: TEAP Washback Project - A review of the washback concept in language education with particular implications for Japan and the EIKEN foundation of Japan organisation (Year 2)
Ltd: Password - Testing the English Language Skills of international Students at the Foundation level (Year 5)
: Pathways Al Rowdah Academy General English Project
(Taiwan): GEPT Writing project-cognitive processing: Examining the contextual and cognitive validity of the GEPT Advanced Level writing task (Year 1)
(Taiwan): Examining the criterion-related validity of the GEPT advanced reading and writing tests: Comparing GEPT with IELTS and real-life academic performance (Year 2)
:CEFR-J development project
: Project to relate the Versant placement test to the CEFR (Year 1)
TEMPUS IV Promoting sustainable excellence in testing and assessment of English (Year 2)
: Consultancy for Trinity English Test (Year 1)

/ IELTS: New Insights into cognitive processes: researching IELTS reading tasks though eye-tracking technology (Year 1)
/ ELTRPA: Researching cognitive processes during computer-based reading tests (Year 1)
/IELTS: The relationship between test-takers' listening proficiency and their performance on the IELTS Speaking test (Year 2)
): Advising the ministry of Education, Malaysia on Classroom-based assessment
: Investigating learner' cognitive processes during computer-based CAE reading tests (Year 2)
: Textual features of CAE reading texts: CAE texts compared with reading texts from FCE, CPE and IELTS and with essential undergraduate textbooks (Year 1)
: TEAP Speaking Project -Developing and validating a speaking component of a new admission test for Japanese colleges and universities (Year 1)
: TEAP Writing Project - Developing and validating a writing component of a new admission test for Japanese colleges and universities (Year 1)
:TEAP Washback Project - A review of the washback concept in language education with particular implications for Japan and the EIKEN foundation of Japan organisation (Year 1)
Ltd: Password Listening - Proposal for a listening component to supplement the Password test
Ltd: Password Introduction and Password Levels
Ltd: Password - Testing the English Language Skills of international Students at the Foundation level (Year 4)
English Profile: Discourse level functional progression in English language learning in the CEFR C1 and C2 proficiency band (Year 6)
(Taiwan): Examining the criterion-related validity of the GEPT advanced reading and writing tests: Comparing GEPT with IELTS and real-life academic performance (Year 1)
Ministry of Education (Japan): Investigating effects of pre-task planning on paired speaking tests (Year 3)
TEMPUS IV Promoting sustainable excellence in testing and assessment of English (Year 1)
Macedonian as a Foreign Language Curriculum Upgrade: TEMAK (Year 2)
: Examining examiner interventions in relation to the listening demands they make on candidates in the GESE Exams
UCLEB: Consultancy for the 天美传媒 of Central Lancashire Examination Boards on improvements to their suite of EFL tests

/ IELTS: The relationship between test-takers' listening proficiency and their performance on the IELTS Speaking test (Year 1)
: Investigating learner' cognitive processes during computer-based CAE reading tests (Year 1)
Ltd:Password - Testing the English Language Skills of international Students at the Foundation level (Year 3)
English Profile: Discourse level functional progression in English language learning in the CEFR C1 and C2 proficiency band (Year 5)
Ministry of Education (Japan): Investigating effects of pre-task planning on paired speaking tests (Year 2)
Macedonian as a Foreign Language Curriculum Upgrade: TEMAK (Year 1)

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