John Read

John Read is an associate professor and Head of the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has taught applied linguistics, TESOL and English for Academic Purposes at tertiary institutions in New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. His primary research interests are in second language vocabulary assessment and the testing of English for academic and professional purposes. He has been a test centre administrator, consultant and external researcher for IELTS, having now completed his third project for the IELTS Research Program. He was co-editor of Language Testing from 2002 to 2006.

John Read is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 2005, while undertaking this research study, he was at Victoria University of Wellington. His research interests are in second language vocabulary assessment and the testing of English for academic and professional purposes. He is the author of Assessing Vocabulary (Cambridge, 2000) and is co-editor of the journal Language Testing.