周一（11月24日）英国布里斯托大学教育研究生院余国兴博士将来我院讲学。余国兴博士现为英国布里斯托大学教育研究生院高级讲师，博士生导师，负责应用语言学教育博士专业，曾获美国Educational Testing Service、英国文化委员会、台湾等多项研究经费，在语言测试(Language Testing)，教育测评 (Assessment in Education)，应用语言学 (Applied Linguistics)，教育研究(Educational Research)，写作测评(Assessing Writing)等国际著名期刊发表论文20余篇，任Assessment in Education执行编辑，并在多家国际著名学术期刊担任评审，如Applied Linguistics, Assessing Writing, Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Learning, Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly等。

国兴博士是国际语言测试和教育评估界的著名学者，将带给我院师生一场学术盛宴，并就应用语言学领域的研究前沿、赴英国留学等问题与大家交流。欢迎外国语学院教师、同学和英语专业双学位的同学光临。具体时间和地点，将在本周另行通知。

附：国兴博士介绍

Dr Guoxing Yu BA, PhD(Bristol)

Reader in Language Education and Assessment

Main research themes:

·         language testing and assessment,

·         applied linguistics (language teaching and acquisition)

·         educational assessment: school effectiveness and educational quality in relation to language and literacy development, measurement of learning power, assessment policies

Dr Yu is Reader in Language Education & Assessment, Coordinator of Doctor of Education in Applied Linguistics and TESOL and co-coordinator of Centre for Assessment and Evaluation Research, at the University of Bristol.

He was the winner of the Jacqueline A. Ross Award (2008) for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the area of Language Testing (awarded by the TOEFL Program of Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. USA). He completed his PhD dissertation - Towards a model of using summarization tasks as a measure of reading comprehension - at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol (2005), with the support of ORS and UoB Postgraduate Research Scholarships.

He was the Book Review Editor of British Association for Applied Linguistics News (ISSN 0965-5638) for seven years. 

He spearheaded the establishment of BAAL Testing, Evaluation and Assessment SIG in 2009, and was the Deputy Covenor for a few years.

Dr Yu is an Executive Editor of Assessment in Education.

He is also on Editorial Board of:

·        Assessing Writing

·        Language Assessment Quarterly

·        Language Testing

·        Language Testing in Asia

·        International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Teaching and Learning

Special Issues:

·        English Language Assessment in China: Policies, Practices and Impacts (Assessment in Education, 2014)

·        Integrated Writing Assessment (Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013) 

Dr Yu is a referee for Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC) and academic journals including:

·        Applied Linguistics

·        Canadian Modern Language Review/Revue Canadienne Des Langues Vivantes

·        International Journal of Science Education

·        International Review of Applied Linguistics

·        Journal of Applied Linguistics

·        Journal of Second Language Writing

·        Language Learning

·        TESOL Quarterly 

He welcomes PhD proposals in any of the above areas. His previous and current doctoral students (incl. co-supervisees) have worked on dissertation projects such as:

·         impact/washback of language testing, and test preparation (Dr Shwu-wen Lin; Suyun Choi; Chamnan Para; Polly Fenn; Dr Shasha Xu, Zhejiang University China)

·         language testing and identity (Dr Vasiliki Papafilippou)

·         lexical diversity and predictive validity of IELTS (Slim Khemakhem, University of the West of England)

·         writing assessment (Dr Muhibullah Abdur-Rahman, Mikako Nishikawa, Tony Clark)

·         speaking assessment (Helen Tan; Katsuya Yokomoto)

·         listening assessment (Dr Haiping Wang, Shanghai International Studies University China)

·         grammar assessment (Sami Alsalmi)

·         assessment of critical thinking in Liberal Studies in Hong Kong (Lai Sim Leung)

·         the micropolitics of assessment in ESP programmes (Dr Faisal Al Maamari)

·         teacher assessment literacy and teacher designed tests (Lin Fang)

·         formative feedback and learner uptake in language classrooms (Dr Beibei Zhao; Dr Rashid Al-Hinai)

·         feeback in student collaborative writing (Walter Ng)

·         the use of English in teaching and assessing mathematics in secondary schools (Elvinia Chan)

·         the role of English in assessing medical students (Enas Elmansuri)

·         corpus-based collocation learning and assessment (Dr Irene Tsai)

·         learning power and authentic pedagogy (Dr Shaofu Huang, Nigel Newton)

·         school effectiveness, educational quality and school self-evaluation (Dr Massoud Mohamed Salim; Tarmidi Dadeh)

He has published in international academic journals including:

·        Applied Linguistics

·        Assessing Writing

·        Assessment in Education

·        Comparative Education

·        Educational Research

·        International Review of Education

·        Language Assessment Quarterly

·        Language Teaching

·        Language Testing,

·         plus several book chapters

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/people/guoxing-yu/overview.html