ProfessorAek Phakiti

Project Opportunities

Title: Language Testing and Assessment

Summary of opportunity:

Aek completed his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne in 2005. His PhD thesis examined the relationships of state-trait cognitive, metacognitive and affective strategy use to EFL reading comprehension test performance through the use of a structural equation modeling approach.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

• Language testing and assessment
• Second language acquisition
• Research methods in language studies and applied linguistics

Keywords: strategic competence, metacognition, appraisal calibration, second language reading, language testing and assessment, second language acquisition, research methods, TESOL

----------Current Research Projects----------

• The Roles of Artificial Intelligence in TESOL Education
• Migrants' Multilingual Language Profifiency
• Assessing Integrated Academic Writing
• Test-takers' performance appraisals, appraisal calibration, state-trait strategy use, and state-trait IELTS listening difficulty in a simulated IELTS Listening test. IELTS Research Report.
• Taylor's College Funded Research Program on 'Factors affecting academic performance of non-English background graduates from the University of Sydney Foundation Program studying at the University of Sydney' Recipients: Aek Phakiti, Lindy Woodrow and David Hirsh.
• TOEFL COE research grant on 'Research Synthesis on the use of feedback for teaching academic writing from automated essay scoring'. Recipients: Brian Paltridge, Aek Phakiti, Marie Stevenson, Lindy Woodrow.
• WIDA Project: English Language Proficiency and Mathematics Achievement of English Learners in US States. Research Team: H. Gary Cook, Rosalie Grant, University of Wisconsin - Madison and Aek Phakiti, The University of Sydney