Research project

Towards an Automated Scoring Model of Spoken English Language Proficiency

Research groups:
Lead researcher:

Dr Ying Zheng
Status:

Active

Project overview

2023 Interdisciplinary Research Pump-Priming Fund Round 3

https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/RIS/SitePages/Interdisciplinary-Research-Pump-Priming-Fund.aspx

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

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.