The Language Testing Research Centre is recognised as a world-leader in research in the areas of language assessment and language program evaluation.
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Pearson Education Grant projects
The LTRC was awarded a new Pearson grant in 2021. This grant project and other recent Pearson grant projects are outlined here.
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Occupational English Test (OET) test development and validation
We have been engaged in research on the OET for over three decades. Explore our studies on nurses and personal care attendants.
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Refitting the Lexile text complexity trajectory in the Chinese context: A corpus-based study
This study explores the text complexity trajectory across different educational levels in China with Lexile and a large corpus
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Test development for Japanese school language assessment
We work with a company in Japan that delivers language assessments to school children at different levels of proficiency
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General English Proficiency Test
We work on projects that focus on linking GEPT writing tests to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)
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Diagnostic English Language Assessment (DELA)
DELA is designed to identify the English language needs of undergraduate and graduate international students
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Language placement test review
This study focusses on a suite of online language placement tests for seven languages
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Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) research projects
TOEFL is the most widely used English language test in the world, used principally for the selection of students from non-English-speaking backgrounds for entry to higher education in the US and elsewhere.