A Systematic Review of Carol A. Chapelle’s 45-Year Contribution to Language Assessment and Education

Carol A. Chapelle, Ali Panahi, Hassan Mohebbi

doi:10.32038/ltrq.2025.51.13

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Systematic Review

A Systematic Review of Carol A. Chapelle’s 45-Year Contribution to Language Assessment and Education

Carol A. Chapelle

Ali Panahi

Hassan Mohebbi

Language Teaching Research Quarterly, Volume 51, Pages 432-477, https://doi.org/10.32038/ltrq.2025.51.13

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The present systematic review examines Carol A. Chapelle’s contributions to language assessment and education. The data include the review and analysis of all of her published research works (with some exceptions) relevant to language assessment, applied linguistics, and technology literacy from the 1980s to the present. To accomplish the objectives of the study, it was outlined and tackled in six sections including background, methodology, themes and overall achievements, exclusion and inclusion rules, systematic review and Carol Chapelle’s personal reflection. First, in procedural terms, we struggled to access her all research works. Then, three macro-themes (Language Assessment, Applied Linguistics and Technology Literacy) and five micro-themes were derived from her whole research works. Next, a subjective methodology was developed for the purpose of the study, with reference to which some exclusion and inclusion rules were coined and then applied to the decision regarding the types of research works to review and analyze, i.e., journal articles, books and book chapters. After that, the systematic analysis was conducted and finally, Carol A. Chapelle provided her own personal discussion and reflection of this systematic review.

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Carol A. Chapelle; Language Assessment; Applied Linguistics; Educational Technology; Systematic Review

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Author(s) Information

Carol A. Chapelle

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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Acknowledgements

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Funding

We received no fund for this project.

CRediT Authorship Contribution Statement

Carol A. Chapelle: Conceptualization, Writing - Original Draft (Personal Reflection and Discussion), Writing - Review & Editing, Supervision

Ali Panahi: Writing - Original Draft, Methodology, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Hassan Mohebbi: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing - Review & Editing, Supervision, Project Administration

Generative AI Use Disclosure Statement

We did not use any AI tool in this project.

Ethics Declarations

World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Helsinki–Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Participants

Not applicable.

Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interests.

Data Availability

The open access resources are available from the corresponding author upon request.