Dr Fumiyo Nakatsuhara
Professor in Language Assessment
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I hold a PG Diploma in TEFL, a Master’s in Applied Linguistics, and a PhD in Language Assessment from the University of Essex. I am the Deputy Director and PGR Lead of CRELLA. I joined CRELLA in 2009. It is my absolute pleasure to work with dedicated colleagues and students at CRELLA, fostering an environment that values individual differences and leverages each other's strengths. Having experienced the impact of assessments during my own school days, I find great personal fulfilment in contributing to projects aimed at educational reform through assessment.
My research interests include the development and validation of speaking tests, assessment of interactional competence and educational reform through assessment.
I am an Expert Member of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA). I currently serve on the editorial boards of Language Testing and Language Assessment Quarterly, as well as an Academic Advisor for Japanese Language Proficiency Test and an Academic Advisory Board member for Eiken Foundation of Japan
I was a steering committee member in the creation of the UK Association of Language Testing and Assessment (UKALTA), and the founding member of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Testing, Evaluation, and Assessment Special Interest Group (BAAL TEASIG), for which I more recently served as the Chair.
I welcome proposals for supervision from postgraduate research students in all aspects of language assessment. My main interests include different formats and delivery modes of speaking tests, task design, rating scales, and assessment of interactional competence, as well as educational reform through assessment. Before getting in touch, please be sure to read our guidance on applying to study at CRELLA
Students I currently supervise:
| Akihiro Matsuura | The Impact of new English tests on students and teachers in junior high schools in Japan |
| James Lesley | The impact of English Medium Instruction on learners’ spoken language development in a Japanese university context |
| Anna Raneri | The impact of integrated peer and teacher-led feedback on English essay writing tasks |
| Katherine Halley | The assessment of interactional competence required for multimodal HE digitally-mediated EMI classrooms in Japan and Malaysia |
| Margarida Pato | The assessment of interactional competence required for multimodal HE digitally-mediated EMI classrooms in Japan and Malaysia |
| Mina Patel | Establishing a function-specific language assessment literacy framework |
| Nick Glasson | A conversation analytic study of interaction in an online, unmediated collaborative speaking task |
Theses completed under my supervision:
| Dr Gwendydd Cauldwell | Moving towards a framework of reference for spoken production of young learners aged 13-15 |
| Dr Alun Roger |
Examining the role of rater personality in L2 speaking tests |
| Dr Edit Ficzere |
An investigation into assessing ESL learners pragmatic competence at B2-C2 levels |
| Dr Laurence Kinsella | Vocabulary size and reading comprehension in elementary level Emirati learners of English |
| Dr Ekaterina Kandelaki |
Vocabulary size and reading comprehension in elementary level Emirati learners of English |
| Dr Thomas Rogers |
Exploring the influence of suprasegmental features of speech on rater judgements of intelligibility |
| Dr Nuzhat Jafari |
The role of vocabulary learning strategies in lexical progression in an ESL context |
| Dr Hussain Sivardeen |
Vocabulary acquisition through extensive reading of unsimplified English material in a Saudi Arabian tertiary context |
| Dr Jamie Dunlea |
Validating a set of Japanese EFL proficiency tests: demonstrating locally designed tests meet international standards |
| Dr Shumaila Memon |
Reading attitudes in L1 and L2 among rural and urban learners in a Pakistani context |
| Dr Serge Korevaar |
The Impact of Computer Interface Design on Lower Level Saudi EFL Students' Performance on a L2 Reading Test |
| Dr Michael Corrigan |
Construct representation of First Certificate in English (FCE) reading |
| Dr Sathena Chan |
Establishing the Validity of Reading-into-Writing Test Tasks for the UK Academic Context |
My books include The co-construction of conversation in group oral tests (Language Testing and Evaluation Series, Peter Lang) and The discourse of the IELTS Speaking test: The institutional design of spoken interaction for language assessment (Cambridge University Press). Two of my journal papers in Language Testing (2011, 2014) were featured in Fulcher’s (2015) Research Timeline article as studies that have significantly advanced our understanding of speaking assessment since 1864.
You can access directly, or find links to my publications through the University of Bedfordshire Repository and on a comprehensive list of CRELLA publications
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