Research project

Towards an Automated Scoring Model of Spoken English Language Proficiency

Research groups:
Lead researchers:

Dr Ying Zheng
Status:

Not active

Project overview

Funded by: Interdisciplinary Research Pump-priming Fund, University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载

The primary goal of this project is to explore an automated scoring model for the evaluation of student’s English language proficiency, focusing on spoken language proficiency. https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/RIS/SitePages/Interdisciplinary-Research-Pump-Priming-Fund.aspx

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Ying Zheng PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

Psychometrics and test validation; Human scoring vs. machine scoring; Statistics in applied linguistics; Comparative Judgement in language testing
Mandarin exams in the UK school system, including A-Level and GCSE exams; Mandarin Chinese teachers’ professional development
Learner motivation and language teaching pedagogy;?ESL/EFL learner characteristics and test performance

Connect with Ying

Email: Ying.Zheng@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Language Assessment and Testing Unit (LATU)

LATU’s mission is to further innovative language assessment and testing research in a multicultural and multimodal world in the digital age and to promote knowledge exchange and dissemination.