Roger Hawkey

Funded language learning and testing research projects

• 2008 - (for the British Council) International Language Assessment placement test development (with the CRELLA team and item writers)
• 2008 - (for English Language Testing Ltd) development of Password, an online English language test for international foundation, pre-masters, pre-sessional students (with CRELLA team)
• 2008 - (for Cambridge ESOL and the British Council) Academic Reading Item Writing, with Tony Green and the CRELLA team
• 2007/8 - (for Pedagogical Research Fund for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
• in Higher Education) Language, study skill and related issues facing international students in the first year of their MPhil / PhD studies: relevance to institutional language, academic and other support services, with Cyril Weir
• 2007/8 - (for Cambridge ESOL and the British Council) The cognitive processes underlying the academic reading construct as measured by IELTS (Part 2), with Cyril Weir and Tony Green
• 2007/8 - (for Cambridge ESOL and the British Council) Relationship between the Academic Reading Construct as measured by IELTS and the Reading Experiences of Students in their first year of Study at a British University, with Cyril Weir, Sarojani Devi, Tony Green, Theo Maniski, Aylin Unaldi and Vladimir Zergarac
• 2005 - (for Cambridge ESOL) Cambridge CRUI (Italy) Online University English language course impact study
• 2005 - (for Cambridge ESOL) Teacher ePortfolio project, with Jim Scrivener
• 2004 - (for Cambridge ESOL) FCE/CAE exams constructs project
• 2004 - (for EU) Review of Quality Assurance in Language for Specific Purposes Estonia Latvia and Lithuania (Qalspell) Project
• 2003 - (for British Institute / Cambridge ESOL) Florence Language Learning Gain Project
• 2000-3 - (for Italian MoE/ Cambridge ESOL) Progetto Lingue 2000 impact study
• 2002-4 - (for Cambridge ESOL) Teachers Knowledge Test project
• 2002-4 - (for Cambridge ESOL) CPE exam textbook washback project
• 2001-4 - (for Cambridge ESOL) Common Scale for Writing Project
• 2000-1 - (for British Council) IELTS Market Survey project
• 1999-2003 - (for Cambridge ESOL) development of the Certificate in English Language Sills exam