Noriko Iwashita

Noriko Iwashita is Associate Professor and Reader in Applied Linguistics at the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia. She teaches a variety of Applied Linguistics courses to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of varied backgrounds. She has been involved in validation projects for speaking assessments funded by ETS, IELTS, and The British Council. Noriko was also a part of a large-scale project on benchmarking the eight foreign languages courses offered at UQ against the CEFR. In 2018, she co-edited the special volume on Revisiting the Speaking Construct for Language Testing with India Plough (Michigan State University) and Jayanti Banerjee (Paragon Testing Enterprises). She is Co-President of the Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand (ALTAANZ). Noriko's research interests include the interfaces of language assessment and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and task-based assessment, and cross-linguistic investigation of the four major language traits. Her work has appeared in Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, Applied Linguistics, Language Learning and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.