Antony John Kunnan is a language assessment specialist. His research interests are fairness of tests and testing practice, assessment literacy, research methods and statistics, ethics and standards, and language assessment policy. His most recent publications include a four-volume edited collection of 140 chapters titled "The Companion to…

Discusses the potential employment of language professionals at a comprehensive metropolitan university, covering the broad configuration of such universities, the professional considerations of employment, the urban environment, and the common problems of institutions of this type. (Author/VWL)

Discusses working as a language professional in a small liberal arts college. Suggests that although demanding and rewarding, work in a liberal arts college presents many challenges.(Author/VWL)

Explores ways in which working identities are discursively constructed in contemporary workplaces, arguing that the construction of new kinds of working identities is a primary function of the contemporary workplace, a function mandated by global discourses of quality management and mediated by workplace educators at local sites. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the connection between second language acquisition (SLA) research and second and foreign language (S/FL) teaching from the viewpoint that such a relationship is desirable and that it is advantageous to see it as one mediated by various factors. Argues that the relationship is presently often weaker than it should be, particularly owing…

Reflects on the evolution of the professional careers of teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), specifically focusing on the difficulties experienced by native speaker teachers when they move from a period of teacher education into the private sector workplace. (Author/VWL)

The role that international businesses can play in local foreign language instruction is described based on experiences in teaching French at a women's college in Virginia. Personal contacts have brought French businessmen into the classroom and have provided students with an understanding of the relevance of their studies, provided an outreach…

Documents the development of one of the most comprehensive efforts in occupational language training in the English-speaking world, Britain's Industrial Language Training (ILT) Service. The presentation describes widespread engagement by the authors and ILT staff concerned with cross-cultural differences as they affect job-related communication…

The author of an article on the relationship between first-language (L1) and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writing instruction comments on a response to that article. Focus is on the integration of L1 and ESL instruction at the university level and on the conditions under which college writing teachers work. (MSE)

A survey of 98 Papua New Guinea technical university graduates in the applied sciences, engineering fields, and forestry investigated their language skill use and language needs in the workplace. Results indicate that, as in Papua New Guinea society in general, English and Tok Pisin are the two most important languages for technical communication…