Members

Dr. Sun-Young Shin is the director of Language Assessment Lab. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at Indiana University. His research interests include integrated assessments and classroom-based language assessment in interactive form. His work has been published in Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, Language Teaching Research, Assessing Writing,Language Learning and Technology, and ReCALL. More information about him can be found from his departement website.

Jaehyun is a Ph.D. student in Second Language Studies. Her background includes a B.A. and an M.A. in English Language Education from Korea University. Her research interests include sentence-processing in psycholinguistics, language assessment, and computational linguistics. 

Bihua is a PhD student and associate instructor of Japanese. She is interested in the validity of and psychological mechanism in oral proficiency tasks such as retelling and elicited imitation, L2 speech intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, and automatic tests.

Jinman Fu is a Ph.D. student in Second Language Studies. She received her M.A. in Applied English Linguistics program and TESOL program from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include L2 acquisition on syntax and phonology and language assessment. 

Amena is a PhD student in Second Language Studies. She has over 8 years of teaching experience, including a year as a Fulbright FLTA at Wake Forest University. She received her Korean Language and Literature BA from Ain Shams University, Egypt.  Her research interests include language testing and assessment, L2 pedagogy, and TAFL.

Xiaoying is is a PhD student in Second Language Studies. She is a Senior Lecturer teacheing Chinese as a second language in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at IU.

Eric is a Ph.D. student in Second Language Studies and an Associate Instructor of English. He received his M.A. in Linguistics from National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has taught English for over 10 years and Chinese for three semesters. His research interests include listening assessment and pedagogy.

Fengming is a PhD student in Second Language Studies. She received her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Beijing Language and Culture University. Her research interests include L2 acquisition of Mandarin Chinese, language assessment and psycholinguistics.

Suchada is a PhD candidate in Second Language Studies. Her background includes Thai EFL in secondary and university education. Her research interests are high-stakes language assessment, test washback, language policy, and curriculum design. Her dissertation study explores issues of test fairness in vocabulary assessment in the context of Thailand secondary schools.

Kimberly is a PhD student in Second Language Studies. Her areas of specialization include SLA instructional and curriculum design, technology-assisted language learning and language testing. Her research interests include the acquisition of English intonation and meaning in discourse contexts and the acquisition of Mandarin tone.

Ludan is a Ph.D. student in Second Language Studies and an associate instructor of Japanese. She received her MSc in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. Before that, she completed her B.A. in Japanese Language from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Her research interests include between-language competition, language assessment, and psycholinguistics.