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 Southampton

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.