Chihiro Inoue

Dr Chihiro Inoue is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA), University of Bedfordshire. Her main research interests lie in task design, rating scale development, the criterial features of learner language in productive skills and the variables to measure such features. She has carried out a number of test development and validation projects in English and Japanese in the UK, USA and Japan. Her publications include the book, Task Equivalence in Speaking Tests (2013, Peter Lang) and articles in Language Assessment Quarterly (2017), Assessing Writing (2015) and Language Learning Journal (2016). In addition to teaching and supervising in the field of language testing at UK universities, Chihiro has wide experience in teaching EFL and ESP at the high school, college and university levels in Japan.

Dr Chihiro Inoue is Associate Professor of Language Assessment at the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA) at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. She has led a number of research projects funded by examination boards and educational institutions around the world and published in peer-reviewed journals such as Language Assessment Quarterly, Assessment in Education, Assessing Writing, and Language Learning Journal. She also gives invited talks for policymakers, in-service teachers, graduate students, and testing organisations on topics such as principles in language testing, connecting testing and teaching, and classroom-based assessment. Her long-standing research interest lies on test task design, the criterial features of learner language that differentiate across proficiency levels, and the cognitive processes involved in speaking assessment. Her expertise in how test task characteristics influence test-takers' cognitive processes and speech production has found significant application in her emerging research area of test accommodations.

Dr Chihiro Inoue is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA), University of Bedfordshire, UK. She specialises in the assessment of L2 speaking and listening, particularly in the task design, test-taker processes and features of learner language. She has carried out numerous test development and validation projects around the world, including IELTS, Cambridge English Qualifications, ISE, TOEFL iBT, Oxford Test of English, GEPT in Taiwan, GTEC and EIKEN in Japan, and the National English Adaptive Test in Uruguay. Her publications include a book (2013, Peter Lang), book chapters in The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing (2021) and journal articles in Language Assessment Quarterly (2021; 2017), Language Learning Journal (2016) and Assessing Writing (2015).