A Mehdi Riazi

Associate Professor Mehdi Riazi is the convenor of the postgraduate units of language assessment and research methods in the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University. He is currently supervising eight PhD students and one Master’s student. One PhD thesis on test validity and five Master theses have been completed under his supervision at Macquarie University.

Before joining Macquarie University, he taught Master and Doctoral courses at Shiraz University, Iran, where he supervised 14 PhD and approximately 40 Master dissertations on issues related to ESL teaching and learning. Four of the PhD dissertations and a relatively large number of the Master theses were related to language testing and assessment (including one on Iranian IELTS candidates’ attitudes to the IELTS Test – see Rasti 2009).

Associate Professor Riazi was also team leader of the project which developed the Shiraz University Language Proficiency Test (SULPT). He was the centre administrator for the TOEFL–iBT at Shiraz University for two years (2007–2009). He has published and presented papers in journals and conferences on different issues and topics related to ESL pedagogy and assessment.