Local Language Testing

Xun Yan received his Ph.D. in Second Language Studies from Purdue University in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE), and Educational Psychology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also the coordinator of the English Placement Test (EPT). He is the president of the Midwest Association of Language Testers in the US. He currently serves as an editorial board member of the journals Language Testing, TESOL Quarterly, Studies in Educational Evaluation, and Language Teaching Research Quarterly. He teaches graduate courses in Language Testing, Second Language Acquisition, and TESOL Methodology. His current research interests include the development and quality control of post-admission language assessments, scale development and validation, rater performance and training, assessment literacy for language teachers, and test score use in educational settings.