About
Welcome to LATU!
We are a research unit within the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) at the University of Southampton. The PGR Special Interest Group in Language Testing and Assessment (SIGLTA) that has been running for 10 years is now part of our research unit.
Our vision is to provide a forum for knowledge generation, dissemination and exchange in language assessment and testing and to build new collaborations in this important applied linguistics field. Our research expertise covers the following areas:
- language performance assessment
- corpus-based approaches to language assessment
- writing assessment, assessing multimodality
- assessment in English-medium instruction
- standard setting, large-scale testing, comparative judgement
- testing validation and psychometrics
Language Testing Forum 2025
We celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Language Testing Forum (LTF) and the 10th anniversary of the UK Association for Language Testing and Assessment (UKALTA) at the 2025 conference!
People, projects and publications
People
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Ms Amna Smith
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) provision in England.
Email: A.B.C.Smith@soton.ac.uk -
Doctor Duygu Candarli
Lecturer in ELT/TESOLSecond language writing, writing assessment
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: D.Candarli@soton.ac.uk -
Miss Jia Li
CLIL Mandarin teaching
eye tracking in language testing
Email: Jia.L.Li@soton.ac.uk -
Ms Maishael Alsanad
L2 Writing Assessment
Feedback Assessment
Email: M.A.S.Alsanad@soton.ac.uk -
Doctor Özgür Şahan
Senior Teaching FellowLanguage performance assessment
Second language writing
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: O.Sahan@soton.ac.uk -
Professor Ying Zheng
ProfessorPsychometrics and test validation; Human scoring vs.
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: Ying.Zheng@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 7650 -
Miss Yuchen Xing
Second Language Acquisition
L2 Spoken Language assessment
Email: Yuchen.Xing@soton.ac.uk -
Mr Yuxuan Yang
Language Assessment
Eye Tracking
EFL students English learning
Email: Yuxuan.Yang@soton.ac.uk