Talia Isaacs

Talia Isaacs is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Bristol. She is director of the University of Bristol Second Language Speech Lab, funded through a Marie Curie EU grant (http://www.bris.ac.uk/speech-lab), and co-coordinator of the Centre for Assessment and Evaluation Research (CAER). Her research centres on second language (L2) aural/oral assessment, with a focus on the development and validation of rating scales, the alignment between rater perceptions and L2 speech productions, and oral communication breakdowns and strategies in workplace and academic settings. Talia is an Expert Member of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment, a founding member of the Canadian Association of Language Assessment, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Language Assessment Quarterly, Language Testing, and The Journal of Second Language Pronunciation. In addition to her graduate teaching at Bristol, she regularly conducts assessment literacy training for educators within the university and beyond.