Ana María Ducasse

Ana María Ducasse is the Spanish Program Coordinator at La Trobe University, Australia where she lectures in Spanish language and culture. She has worked on evidence based rating scale development for Spanish as a foreign language, published in her book Interaction in Paired Oral Proficiency Assessment in Spanish: Rater and Candidate Input into Evidence Based Scale Development and Construct Definition (Peter Lang, 2010). Her research focus is assessment, and recent work centres on measures of language proficiency in first and second language assessment of speaking and writing. She is involved in projects in Australia, Colombia and the Philippines on a range of assessment procedures used in academic contexts in English or Spanish. Previously, she worked as the Director of Studies in an ELICOS centre, while working as an IELTS assessor for 10 years. Besides her work in research and administration, Ana María has taught Spanish, Italian and English as foreign language.