Professional Experience

Language Assessment Specialist

• • Tasks: provide language assessment and curriculum design workshops; work with language instructors on their test development projects; manage language test revision projects; develop new language tests and promote them to test users; conduct test validation studies and other studies related to language teaching and assessment; manage the Foreign Language Proficiency Certification program and develop its policy; manage database of Mellon and Language Pedagogy Innovation Initiative participants

Research Assistant

• • Project #4: Global Online Course (called “Using Educational Technology in the English Language Classroom”), funded by U.S. Department of State, supervised by Volker Hegelheimer and Carol Chapelle (08 – 12/2019)

Tasks: develop and revise course materials, assist with teaching online courses, revise diagnostic assessment, and conduct research on the effectiveness of the course and of social media technologies on language learning

• • Project #3: A corpus-based study on the English Placement Test Writing, supervised by Bethany Gray (01 – 05/2018)

Tasks: build corpus, conduct statistical analyses, review literature on corpus-based studies in test validation

• • Project #2: The Longitudinal Development of Grammatical Complexity at the Phrasal and Clausal Levels, funded by ETS, supervised by Bethany Gray (08/2016 – 12/2017)

Tasks: build corpus, conduct statistical analyses, write computer scripts for linguistic analyses, review literature on longitudinal studies on language development

• • Project #1: Automated Functional Language Extraction System (AFLEX), interdisciplinary project, funded by Iowa State University, supervised by Elena Cotos (01 – 05/2016)

Tasks: build corpus, train and manage undergraduate assistants, coordinate team meetings

English Placement Test (EPT) Assistant Coordinator

• Tasks: develop reading, listening, and writing tests; conduct statistical analyses, build writing corpus, develop rater training materials, coordinate test administration and rating, update test score databases, monitor testing platform, communicate with various colleges on test results, train and manage undergraduate assistants

Intern

Tasks: review literature, conduct statistical analyses, recommend changes to rating scales, analyze rater feedback, draft test development report, assist with developing test score reports and rater training materials for the MET Go! Speaking and Writing

Intern

Tasks: work in test quality control, update test bank databases, conduct statistical analyses, conduct domain analysis for ACCESS for ELLs 2.0

Speaking Examiner

Tests: Preliminary English Test (PET), First Certificate of English (FCE)

Lecturer of English

Courses: general English, academic writing, English for Specific Purposes, English Language Teaching Methodology

Teaching Assistant for Young Learners