Cyril Weir

Cyril Weir is the author of Communicative Language Testing, Understanding and Developing Language Tests and Language Testing and Validation: an evidence based approach. He is the co-author of Evaluation in ELT, An Empirical Investigation of the Componentality of L2 Reading in English for Academic Purposes, Empirical Bases for Construct Validation: the College English Test - a case study, and Reading in a Second Language. Cyril Weir has taught short courses, lectured and carried out consultancies in language testing, evaluation and curriculum renewal in over 50 countries worldwide. With Mike Milanovic of UCLES, he is the series editor of The Studies in Language Testing series published by Cambridge University Press and on the editorial board of Language Assessment Quarterly and Reading in a Foreign Language. Cyril Weir is currently Powdrill Professor in English Language Acquisition at the University of Bedfordshire.

Cyril Weir has a PhD in language testing and has published widely in the fields of testing and evaluation. He is the author of Communicative Language Testing, Understanding and Developing Language Tests and Language Testing and Validation: an evidence based approach. He is the coauthor of Evaluation in ELT, An Empirical Investigation of the Componentiality of L2 Reading in English for Academic Purposes, Empirical Bases for Construct Validation: the College English Test - a case study, and Reading in a Second Language and co-editor of Continuity and Innovation: Revising the Cambridge Proficiency in English Examination 1913-2002. Cyril Weir has taught short courses, lectured and carried out consultancies in language testing, evaluation and curriculum renewal in over 50 countries worldwide. With Mike Milanovic of UCLES he is the series editor of the Studies in Language Testing series published by CUP and on the editorial board of Language Assessment Quarterly and Reading in a Foreign Language. Cyril Weir is currently Powdrill Professor in English Language Acquisition at the University of Bedfordshire, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA) which was set up on his arrival in 2005.

Professor Cyril Weir is the Powdrill Research Professor in English Language Acquisition in the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA) at the University of Bedfordshire. His current interests include language construct definition, the validation of language tests and the history of English language testing in the UK. He is the author of a wide range of educational publications, including Communicative Language Testing, Understanding and Developing Language Tests and Language Testing and Validation: An evidence-based approach. He is also the co-author of Examining Writing, Examining Reading, Evaluation in ELT, Reading in a Second Language, Measured Constructs, and the co-editor of six Studies in Language Testing (SiLT) Volumes. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2013 and awarded the OBE for services to English language assessment in 2015.

Professor Cyril Weir has a PhD in language testing, is the author of Communicative Language Testing and Understanding and Developing Language Tests and is the co-author of Examining Writing, Evaluation in ELT and Reading in a Second Language. In 2005 he published Language Testing and Validation: an evidence-based approach. Taught short courses and carried out consultancies in language testing, evaluation and curriculum renewal in over fifty countries world-wide. Current interests include academic literacy and test validation.