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Towards an Automated Scoring Model of Spoken English Language Proficiency

  • Research groups:
  • Lead researchers:
    Dr Ying Zheng
  • Status:
    Not active

Project overview

2023 Interdisciplinary Research Pump-Priming Fund Round 3

https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/RIS/SitePages/Interdisciplinary-Research-Pump-Priming-Fund.aspx

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Ying Zheng PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Psychometrics and test validation; Human scoring vs. machine scoring; Statistics in applied linguistics; Comparative Judgement in language testing
  • Mandarin exams in the UK school system, including A-Level and GCSE exams; Mandarin Chinese teachers’ professional development
  • Learner motivation and language teaching pedagogy; ESL/EFL learner characteristics and test performance
Connect with Ying

Email: Ying.Zheng@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs