Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Language Testing Research Group (LTRG) is a forum open to staff and research students interested in language testing issues. We discuss:
- current issues in language testing research,
- individual research projects,
- research students’ interests
- research worries.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Oksana Afitska
- School of Social Sciences - Senior Lecturer in TESOL
- Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
- LTRG - Language Testing Research Group
Person: Academic and Related
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Charles Alderson
- Linguistics and English Language - Emeritus
- LTRG - Language Testing Research Group - Academic
Person: Honorary/Visiting, Academic and Related
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Tineke Brunfaut
- School of Social Sciences - Professor of Applied Linguistics
- LTRG - Language Testing Research Group - Academic
Person: Academic and Related
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SAVASS - South African Voices in the Arts and Social Sciences
Brunfaut, T. (Principal Investigator) & McArthur, J. (Principal Investigator)
1/03/25 → 28/02/27
Project: Research
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Investigating the construct underlying the CEFR phonological control scale
Harding, L. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/13 → …
Project: Other
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Investigating the construct of viewing to write tasks
Brunfaut, T. (Principal Investigator) & Kormos, J. (Co-Investigator)
15/01/23 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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Assessing Multimodal Viewing-to-Write Constructs: Task Design, Performance, Processing, and Rating
Brunfaut, T. & Kormos, J., 15/12/2025, In: Language Assessment Quarterly. 22, 4-5, p. 429-459 31 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Comparative Judgement for evaluating young learners’ EFL writing performances: Reliability and teacher perceptions of holistic and dimension-based judgements
Sickinger, R., Brunfaut, T. & Pill, J., 30/04/2025, In: Language Testing. 42, 2, p. 137-166 30 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Conceptualising DIALANG 2.0: Is there a role for mediation in a theory-driven approach to computer-based diagnostic language assessment?
Harding, L., Brunfaut, T., Kremmel, B. & Huhta, A., 1/12/2025, Dynamic and diagnostic language assessment: Learning across frameworks to support second/foreign language education. Leontjev, D., Poehner, M. E. & Huhta, A. (eds.). De Gruyter Mouton, p. 237-264 28 p. (Trends in Applied Linguistics; vol. 38).Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Assessing multimodal language uses: Task design, performance, processing, and rating
Brunfaut, T. (Speaker)
24/02/2026Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Future challenges in language testing and assessment
Brunfaut, T. (Speaker)
20/06/2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
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Testing formulaic language use
Brunfaut, T. (Speaker)
19/06/2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Prizes
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e-Assessment Award for Best Research
Brunfaut, T. (Recipient) & Harding, L. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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ILTA Best Article Award
Alderson, C. (Recipient), Brunfaut, T. (Recipient) & Harding, L. (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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Judit Kormos was quoted in the Education webpage of the Guardian
20/06/14
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
Impacts
Datasets
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Assessing multimodal viewing-to-write constructs: Task design, performance, processing, and rating.
Brunfaut, T. (Creator) & Kormos, J. (Creator), Open Science Framework, 2024
Dataset