Glenn Fulcher’s Thirty-Five Years of Contribution to Language Testing and Assessment: A Systematic Review

Glenn Fulcher, Ali Panahi, Hassan Mohebbi

doi:10.32038/ltrq.2022.29.03

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Glenn Fulcher’s Thirty-Five Years of Contribution to Language Testing and Assessment: A Systematic Review

Glenn Fulcher

Ali Panahi

Hassan Mohebbi

Language Teaching Research Quarterly, Volume 29, Pages 20-56, https://doi.org/10.32038/ltrq.2022.29.03

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The present systematic review examines Glenn Fulcher’s contributions, works, philosophy, and research in language testing and assessment. The data includes his published articles, book chapters, books and interviews (except the one in this special issue) relevant to language testing and assessment from 1987 to March 2022. This study is conducted in two stages: From the sources, Ali Panahi and Hassan Mohebbi derived 127 commonly used main themes, 43 statistical and instrumental concepts, and 14 domains to create a framework for the analysis. We discovered that his research interests were wide-ranging. However, there was a focus on assessing speaking, rating scale design, validity, language assessment literacy and pedagogy, and the broader understanding of the role of assessment from a philosophical and societal perspective. Our analysis provides an overall understanding of the main themes, key concepts and major implications of Glenn Fulcher’s work. In the second stage of the study, Glenn presents his personal discussion and reflection of this systematic review.

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Analysis; Contributions; Glenn Fulcher; Testing; Assessment; Systematic Review

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Glenn Fulcher

Ali Panahi

Since 1998, Ali Panahi has worked, presented, published, and researched in ELT and language assessment. He is enthusiastic about language assessment, teacher training and performing systematic reviews of the research works of distinguished scholars in the field. He has jointly (with Hassan Mohebbi) surveyed and reviewed all of the decades-published research works of Jack C. Richards, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Glenn Fulcher, Rebecca Oxford, James Dean Brown and so forth. His recent published book is titled Teacher Training in ELT. In terms of academic and professional qualifications, he holds a PhD in ELT, Train the Trainer Certificate from Cambridge University and two Diplomas (Dip. in TESOL and Dip. in Teacher Training). He loves education and training teachers.

Hassan Mohebbi

Hassan Mohebbi’s main research interests are second language writing, assessment literacy, educational technology, and individual differences. He is an editorial board member of Language Testing in Asia (Springer), Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education (Springer), Language Teaching Research Quarterly (Special Issues Series Editor), Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, and Technology in Language Teaching and Learning.

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