ProfessorAek Phakiti

Professor of TESOL

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

  • Professor of TESOL
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Applied Linguistics

 

  • Language testing and assessment
  • Second language acquisition
  • Research methods in language studies and applied linguistics
  • Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education

 

Keywords:strategic competence, metacognition, appraisal calibration, second language reading, language testing and assessment, second language acquisition, research methods, language proficiency, automated scoring evaluation and feedback, Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Test-takers and Raters Reactions to an Online Integrated IELTS Writing Test
    IELTS Australia Pty Limited1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phakiti A
  • GRANT
    Test-takers calibration and strategy use in IELTS listening tasks
    IELTS Australia Pty Limited1 Jan 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phakiti A
  • GRANT
    Modeling the Relationship of Strategic Competence to Reading Comprehension Test Performances Over Time by Adult English as a foreign or second language (EFL/ESL) Tertiary students.
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phakiti A
  • GRANT
    Research synthesis on automated feedback on academic writing
    Education Testing Service1 Jan 2007
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Input, interaction and the English SMART card
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phakiti A
  • GRANT
    TESOL Network
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    An empirical investigation into the nature of and factors affecting test takers' calibration within the Context of an English Placement Test (EPT)
    Michigan University1 Jan 2004
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phakiti A