Nahal Khabbazbashi

Nahal Khabbazbashi is Senior Lecturer in Language Assessment at the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA), University of Bedfordshire. Her main research interests are the assessment of speaking, the use and impact of technology in assessment, multimodal communication, and the effects of test-taker related variables on performance. Before joining CRELLA, Nahal worked as Senior Research Manager at Cambridge English.

Dr Nahal Khabbazbashi is Senior Lecturer in Language Assessment at CRELLA, University of Bedfordshire. Her research interests include the assessment of speaking, the effects of task and test-taker related variables on performance, the use and impact of technology on assessment, and new constructs in the digital age. Nahal has led the research strands of a number of high-profile test development and validation projects in different educational and language testing contexts from school settings in Uruguay to higher education institutes in Egypt. Her work appears in journals such as Language Testing (2020; 2017), Linguistics and Education (2019), and Language and Education (2019).