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HSK test taker characteristics, test performance and implications for HSK test constructs

  • Research groups:
  • Lead researcher:
    Dr Ying Zheng
  • Research funder:
    Chinese Testing International Co., Ltd
  • Status:
    Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

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

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research

Our research focuses on language learning and teaching, linguistic theory, and second language acquisition.
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