Wenjun (Elyse) Ding

Assessment specialist @OxUniPress; PhD in Education and Language Assessment @SOEBristol @Bristoluni; MSc Applied Linguistics @OxfordDeptofEd; Views my own.

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

Happy to announce that I will contribute to this webinar this Thursday! Come and join our discussion on 'Assessing young language learners in China'.

[ILTAonline @ILTAonline]

Join us for an insightful ILTA Young Learner SIG webinar on assessing young language learners in China on November 14!
🕒 Time: 8:00 - 9:30 PM (Beijing)
🎟️ Free for ILTA members, $30 for non-members
Registration details in the comments! #LTRC #webinar # languageassessment

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

Thank you for capturing this special moment. I was super happy to present part of my PhD project at LTF 2023. Very excited to meet new & old friends and learn about so many exciting assessment projects!

[UKALTA @UKALTA2]

LTF 2023: Using causal explanation speaking tasks to assess bilingual children’s speaking ability

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

Just saw this post by LAQ. Happy to share my recent publication with Prof Guoxing Yu in Language Assessment Quarterly.

[Language Assessment Quarterly @LAQJournal]

From the latest issue (20/3) of LAQ:

Using Causal Explanation Speaking Tasks to Assess Young EFL learners’ Speaking Ability: The Effects of Age, Cognitive, and L2 Linguistic Development

by @ElyseDing & Guoxing Yu from the U of Bristol

#LAQJournal #languageassessment #EFL

[Chihiro Inoue @cinoue1211]

This is so sad. I am one of many students who learned from his book on MFRM in speaking tests… His expertise and warmth touched so many lives.

[Geoff LaFlair @glaflair]

Applications for DET doctoral dissertation awards are due October 13!

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@iIta_gsa @JDylanBurton @ILTAonline Congratulations @JDylanBurton !

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@juditkormos Thank you, Judit! I have learned a lot from the discussion with you =)

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

Thank you very much to my two examiners Prof Melissa Allen, and Prof @juditkormos for their great questions. Big thanks to my supervisors Prof Guoxing Yu, Dr Katherin Barg, and Prof Sally Thomas along the PhD journey! And THANK YOU to my friends and family! 😊😊😊

[School of Education | University of Bristol @SOEBristol]

Many congratulations to @SOEBristol's Wenjun Ding who successfully defended her thesis entitled "Using computerised picture-based causal explanation speaking tasks to assess young language learners: Validity evidence from multiple perspectives”.

Well done Wenjun! 🎉

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@7Quentinliu Thank you, Yuan!!!

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@adrianholliday Thank you, Adrian!!! 😊

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@jinglu_zhang Thanks, dear Jinglu!!!

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@drjane_n Thank you, Dr Jane😊!!!

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@dkrn3 Thanks, Dulce! I made it!!!!

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@Dr_Shimmi @juditkormos Thank you, Aminath!

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@TingtingYuan @juditkormos Thank you, dear xuejie =)

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@C__Valladares @juditkormos Thank you, Carol!

[Wenjun (Elyse) Ding @ElyseDing]

@JDylanBurton @juditkormos Thank you, Dylan!

[Lynda Taylor @LyndaTa72742819]

Some very moving tributes this afternoon at LTF2022 as we recalled with admiration & gratitude the enormous contribution to our field of our colleague, mentor and friend - Liz Hamp-Lyons. Pioneer and trailblazer in so many areas… missed but fondly remenbered. @UKALTA2

[UKALTA @UKALTA2]

Professor Guoxing Yu talks about multimodality in language assessment, at LTF Bristol 2022

[UKALTA @UKALTA2]

Excellent talk from @ShaLiu2010 on automated writing evaluation as a diagnostic assessment tool at LTF 2022, Bristol