Ph.D. Student, Applied Linguistics and Technology - Statistics minor, Iowa State University, USA (2021)
Dissertation title: Investigating reliability and construct validity of a source-based academic writing test for placement purposes.
Adviser: Carol Chapelle
M.A., Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia (2009)
Thesis title: An investigation of strategy use in the Occupational English Test (OET) Listening sub-test: A validation study
Advisers: Luke Harding & Catherine Elder
B.A., Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Ho Chi Minh University of Education, Vietnam (2006)
Courses taken (selected)
Assessment
Language Assessment
Test Development (Evidence Centered Design)
Computer-Assisted Language Testing
Validation of Language Tests
Statistics
Statistical Methods for Research
Regression for Social and Behavioral Research
Statistical Theory for Research Workers
Item Response Theory (IRT)
Structural Equation Models (SEM) for Social and Behavioral Research
Advanced Quantitative Methods for Applied Linguistics (G-theory, EFA/CFA)
Power Analysis
CALL and Teaching
Teaching English Composition
Second Language Acquisition
Methods of Teaching Listening and Speaking Skills to Nonnative Speakers of English
Computer-Mediated Language Learning
Technology and Oral Language
CALL Evaluation
Methods
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
Qualitative Research Methods
Quantitative Methods in Applied Linguistics
Corpus Approaches to Grammatical Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Methods of Formal Linguistic Analysis
Computational Analysis of English
Others
Sociolinguistics