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Dr Guoxing Yu

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Dr Yu is Senior Lecturer in Education (Applied Linguistics & Language Testing) and Co-ordinator of Doctor of Education in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Bristol.

His main research interests include:

  • language testing and assessment,
  • applied linguistics in education,
  • school effectiveness in relation to language and literacy development,
  • measurement of learning power.

He welcomes PhD proposals in any of the above areas. His previous and current doctoral students (incl. co-supervisees) have worked on dissertation projects such as:

  • impact and washback of language testing (Dr Shwu-wen Lin, Suyun Choi, Chamnan Para)
  • language testing and identity (Vasiliki Papafilippou)
  • predictive validity of IELTS (Slim Khemakhem, University of the west of England)
  • the micropolitics of assessment in ESP programmes (Dr Faisal Al Maamari)
  • speaking test using interviews (Muhibullah Abdur-Rahman)
  • TOEFL iBT speaking tasks (Garrett Byrne)
  • formative feedback and learner uptake in language classrooms (Dr Beibei Zhao, Rashid Al-Hinai)
  • the use of English in teaching and assessing mathematics in secondary schools (Elvinia Chan)
  • the role of English in assessing medical students (Enas Elmansuri)
  • writing apprehension and test performance (Haryati Bakrin)
  • corpus-based collocation learning and assessment (Irene Tsai)
  • poetry in ESL classroom teaching (Salwa Hj Abu Hanifah)
  • school effectiveness, educational quality and school self-evaluation (Dr Massoud Mohamed Salim)

Dr Yu has directed and co-directed several funded research projects, and has published in international academic journals including:

  • Applied Linguistics
  • Assessing Writing
  • Assessment in Education
  • Comparative Education
  • Educational Research
  • International Review of Education
  • Language Assessment Quarterly
  • Language Teaching
  • Language Testing, plus several book chapters

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Dr Yu is the winner of the Jacqueline A. Ross Award (2008) for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the area of Language Testing (awarded by the TOEFL Program of Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. USA). He completed his PhD dissertation - Towards a model of using summarization tasks as a measure of reading comprehension - at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol (2005), with the support of ORS and UoB Postgraduate Research Scholarships.

Dr Yu is an Executive Editor of Assessment in Education; Book Review Editor of British Association for Applied Linguistics News, and Deputy Co-ordinator of BAAL Testing, Evaluation and Assessment SIG..

He is also a peer reviewer for academic journals including:

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