🎤 Excited with CRELLA's representation at #LTF2025! Johnathan Jones will be presenting with Leda Lampropoulou, and Scott Mackie on “Leveraging Generative AI to Establish Linguistic Features Associated with Spoken English Proficiency Levels” #LanguageTesting #AIinAssessment #GenerativeAI

The CRELLA Autumn seminar (2025) videos are now available online including a talk by Professor Antony Kunnan. Check them out here: www.youtube.com/@CRELLAsemin...

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Educational materials related to language assessment.

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Can automated pipelines + expert ratings unlock how CLB 4–10 captures spoken performance? Check out this presentation by Johnathon Jones (CRELLA) and colleagues to find out more: 'Mapping Pronunciation and Fluency Measures to CLB Levels' 📅 #PSLLT2025 | Montreal

Just a few hours left to the start of CRELLA's Autumn Seminar where we'll have the honour of welcoming Professor Antony Kunnan as our keynote speaker! The event is FREE but you'll need to register here (only a few tickets left!): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crella-aut...

CRELLA Autumn Seminar

A free educational event giving the latest findings and insights into English language assessment.

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Our very own Fumi Nakatsuhara has been conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS)! She is only the second woman in the field of language testing to receive this honour, after Professor Lynda Taylor (also based at CRELLA). Huge congrats!!!

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New Fellow Prof Fumiyo Nakatsuhara is Prof in Language Assessment & Deputy Director of @crella-beds.bsky.social, University of Bedfordshire! Fumiyo’s research focuses on language assessment, including the development & validation of speaking tests & educational reform through assessment.

How do the special arrangements offered in IELTS align with best practices / work for different stakeholder groups? Read this brief and informative report by Chihiro and Lynda: ielts.org/researchers/...

Hot off the press – Sathena and Daniel Lam (Uni of Glasgow)’s open access article on using a micro-analytic approach to analyse keystroke logging data to understand L2 writers' revisions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Zooming in on the process-product nexus of meaning-related revisions: A micro-analytic approach to keystroke logging data

While many writing studies to date show that higher-proficiency and lower-proficiency L2 writers have distinct writing behaviours, there is relatively…

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New chapter by Johnathan Jones and Julie Hartill explores the critical role of language assessment literacy in shaping effective language programs 📚✨ www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Language Assessment Literacy | 15 | The Routledge Handbook of Language

Language assessment literacy is a crucial, evolving skillset with implications for administrators, instructors, and students. This chapter examines assessment

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Not to be missed!!! Our Sathena and Sonja Zimmerman will be talking about methodologies in integrated assessment research TOMORROW, Friday 27th of June, at the ILTA integrated assessment SIG panel. Sign up via the link: www.iltaonline.com/events/Event...

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And details of the ELT Summer Symposium where the award ceremony will be taking place!!! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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📢 Big congratulations to the TALE Project for receiving the ELT Society’s inaugural Promotion of Language Assessment Literacy Award! 👏 Proud to see Tony Green from CRELLA playing a key role in this international initiative led by Prof. Dina Tsagari. eltsociety.org/winners-of-i...

Tickets, tickets, tickets!!! Registration still open for the BAAL TEASIG annual conference at Reading on the 4th of July 2025. You can find the programme and all other details on our website www.baalteasig.co.uk/2025readingc...

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BAAL TEASIG 2025 Reading conference - Constructs in language assessments: evolution or revolution?

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📢 Big congratulations to the TALE Project for receiving the ELT Society’s inaugural Promotion of Language Assessment Literacy Award! 👏 Proud to see Tony Green from CRELLA playing a key role in this international initiative led by Prof. Dina Tsagari. eltsociety.org/winners-of-i...

Winners of Inaugural Promotion of Language Assessment Literacy Award - ELTS

The English Language Testing Society (ELT Society) is proud to announce the Teachers’ Assessment Literacy Enhancement (TALE) Project as the recipient of the inaugural Promotion of Language Assessment ...

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Strong CRELLA presence at LTRC 2025! It was a fantastic event!!!

🌟 Wonderful CRELLA achievements 🌟 Professor Lynda Taylor, recipient of the Cambridge/ILTA Distinguished Achievement Award and Dr. Nick Glasson, recipient of theJacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award will both be honoured at the upcoming #LTRC2025 — huge congratulations to both! 🎉 #CRELLA

Tickets, tickets, tickets!!!BAAL TEASIG is delighted to announce the opening of registration for the 2025 one-day conference at the University of Reading on July 4th 2025. For more info and to book tickets visit www.baalteasig.co.uk/2025readingc...

Heading to EALTA next week? Come check out CRELLA’s presentations! 👇 🎤 Integrated Listening-into-Speaking tasks–Nahal, Fumi, Chihiro & Johnathan 📏 Linking the Japanese proficiency test to the CEFR–Fumi & Japan Foundation colleagues 🤝 Ratability of non-verbal behaviour–our brilliant PhD student Katy!

Nick Glasson, former CRELLA student and recipient of the 2025 Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Award, has just an article published in Assessing Writing. The study looks at grammatical meaphors in L2 writing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... What a star!!!

Making things happen: A study of grammatical metaphors in L2 writing scripts

The notion of grammatical metaphor (GM) (Halliday, 1985) is essentially where a writer can shift an action or quality into being a ‘thing’. As in most…

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Sathena is doing an ILTA TILASIG webinar titled "Advancing Language Testing Research Through Research Synthesis" on 9 May. More information here: www.iltaonline.com/events/Event...

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Advancing Language Testing Research Through Research SynthesisDr. Sathena Chan, Associate Professor of Language Testing, University of BedfordshireTime: 10:00–11:10 AM (London) | 5:00–6:10 PM (Beijing), 5/9/2025 (Friday) | Time Zone ConverterThis talk explores the role of research synthesis (RS) in advancing language testing research, highlighting its potential to consolidate findings across language testing studies and to direct future research in the field. Research synthesis, when conducted properly with a systematic framework with rigorous selection and evaluative criteria, provides valuable evidence-based synthesis of findings and methods to help researchers minimise the risk of “research waste” (Isaacs & Chalmers, 2023) and to inform decisions to more efficient use of resources. RS also has a role in providing enhanced accessibility of the main developments of language testing to a wider range of practitioner audiences. The speaker will introduce main types of RS (Plonsky, 2024) and share a recently developed tool SMART (Chong, 2025) which highlights important considerations when conducting RS in applied linguistics. The speaker will also discuss some directions for RS in language testing.Sathena Chan is Associate Professor of Language Testing at CRELLA, University of Bedfordshire. She has been the recipient of over 35 research grants and consultancy project commissions. Her research can be seen in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in edited volumes and two books published by Cambridge University Press. She is the founding and co-editor-in-chief of Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics.

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Fumi, Chihiro and Katie had a fantastic Future of English symposium at Waseda University Japan, on Saturday 19 April 2025. Check out the official website for updates and upcoming resources from the project! sites.google.com/view/foedigi...

View Tony Green’s recent plenary at the ALTE meeting in Cardiff to explore an intriguing question: Spoken Interaction: The language tester’s curse? Challenging convention and sparking new ideas—a must-see for anyone involved in assessing spoken communication! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbPM...

Spoken Interaction: the Language Tester’s Curse? - Prof Tony Green, University of Bedfordshire

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Hot off the press! Tony's co-authored article has been published: Zainal, Ng, Chew, Green & Noor (2025) on the impact of the ProELT Training Program on Malaysian English teachers' self‐efficacy. Check it out here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Impact of the ProELT Training Program on Malaysian English Teachers' Self‐Efficacy

Recognizing the importance of mastering the English language and its potential to enhance the country's socioeconomic status, Malaysia has dedicated efforts to improve the language proficiency of its...

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Rev. Professor Lynda Taylor's prestigious award covered by the University of Bedfordshire news...so proud of you Lynda !@lyndataylor.bsky.social www.beds.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...

Chihiro is giving a talk at the IATEFL TEA SIG Pre-conference Event, "Putting the learner at the heart of assessment" on 7 April! Check it out: www.iatefl.org/events/595

Fumi and Chihiro are organising the in-person Future of English symposium on Saturday 19 April 2025 at Waseda University Japan. Registration is free—and if you sign up quickly, you can even get a free bento box! sites.google.com/view/foedigi...

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Future of English Symposium Japan: Online EMI Communication in University Classrooms

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CRELLA shone at the British Council's Future of English Research Forum! Hosted at the University of Bedfordshire, we had 80 in-person delegates (some from Malaysia, Thailand, China & Japan) and 3,000 online participants!

Huge congratulations to CRELLA's Professor Lynda Taylor @lyndataylor.bsky.social for winning the 2024 Cambridge/ILTA Distinguished Achievement Award!!! We are so incredibly proud of you!!!!

CRELLA is delighted to host and present at the 3rd Future of English Research Forum by the British Council on Thu 6 and Fri 7 March 2025. Register for online participation at: futureofenglish.britishcouncil.org/insights/res...

Future of English Research Forum

Find out more about the Future of English Research Forum 2025 for insights and discussions on international English language research.

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The Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) scores are now aligned with the CEFR: www.jlpt.jp/sp/e/about/c... Want to learn more? JLPT colleagues and Fumi will present the CEFR linking research at EALTA 2025 in Salzburg: ealta-annual-conference.org

How should writing tests reflect the way we write in today's digital age? Check out Sathena's podcast interview by Trinity College London open.spotify.com/episode/6wxD...

Which parts of the writing process deserve more attention? Insights from Sathena Chan

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We are delighted to announce that CRELLA graduate, Dr. Nick Glasson, has been awarded the prestigious Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award! Congratulations! We are so very proud!!https://www.iltaonline.com/news/691755/2025-Jacqueline-Ross-TOEFL-Dissertation-Award-Winner-Dr.-Nicholas-Glasson.htm