Assessment Consultant

Istanbul, Turkey

farhadyh@gmail.com

Orchid number: https:// orcid.org/0000-0002-2019-6157

A plenary talk at the ULEAD Annual Conference

Hacı Bayram Veli University, Ankara, Turkey

(September 27-28, 2024).

A short bio-statement

Hossein Farhady is a former professor of applied linguistics who received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. His major area of interest is research on various aspects of language testing and assessment.

He has taught courses on language testing, research methods, and ESP at MA and Ph.D. levels for over four decades in Iran, Canada, Armenia, and the USA. He has also presented papers at national and international conferences and has widely published on issues related to language testing and assessment. He has published over 15 books and 50 articles on various topics in applied linguistics, largely in language assessment. He has directed MA programs in TEFL, nationwide research projects on EFL/EAP, test development, and test validation projects in Iran and other places in the world. He has supervised over 60 MA theses and Ph.D. dissertations.

He moved to the US in 2006 and worked as a senior scholar and project manager for organizations such as Ordinate and Lidget Green Corporations in California, and Second Language Testing, Inc., in Maryland.

From 2008 to 2010, he worked as the associate dean of the Department of English Programs at the American University of Armenia. In the meantime, he directed projects related to the scoring of Pearson’s new automated language proficiency test and validating the Versant test. He is a two-time ILTA award receiver in addition to research grants from Pearson, ETS, and ILTA.

From 2013 to 2024 he served as a faculty member at the ELT department at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is now working as an assessment consultant.