Aek Phakiti

Aek Phakiti is an Associate Professor in TESOL at The University of Sydney. His research focuses on language testing and assessment, second language acquisition, and research methods in language learning. He is the author of Strategic Competence and EFL Reading Test Performance (Peter Lang, 2007), Experimental Research Methods in Language Learning (Bloomsbury, 2014), and, with Carsten Roever, Quantitative Methods for Second Language Research: A Problem-Solving Approach (Routledge, 2018), Language Assessment: A Practical Approach (RELC, 2021), Assessment for Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and Calibration and Confidence in Language Learning and Use (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). With Brian Paltridge, he has edited Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (2010, Continuum) and Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: A Practical Resource (2015, Bloomsbury). With Peter De Costa, Luke Plonsky and Sue Starfield, he is a co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Linguistics Research Methodology (Palgrave, 2018).

He was Associate Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly (2012–2021), University of Sydney Papers in TESOL (2006–2013) and University of Sydney Journal of TESOL (2023 to present).

In 2010, Aek was a recipient of the TOEFL Outstanding Young Scholar Award. He received three University of Sydney Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards (2009, 2017, 2019). He was Vice President of ALTAANZ (Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand (2014-2016) and is Vice President of ALAA (Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, from 2024).