Luke William Harding (born 11 July 1977) is an

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. He is currently a

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at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of

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, United Kingdom. His research focuses on

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with a special focus on listening assessment, pronunciation assessment, and diagnostic language assessment. He is the current editor-in-chief of the journal, ''

Language Testing ''Language Testing'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering language testing and assessment. Its editors-in-chief are Talia Isaacs (University College London) and Xun Yan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). It was establishe ...

''.

Career

Harding obtained his

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at the

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in 2002. Later he got his Master of Arts degree in Applied Linguistics and a PhD degree in

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at the

in 2008. Since 2011 Harding has been a professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of

, United Kingdom since 2010. On 19 April 2017, Harding along with

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and Tineke Brunfaut were selected as the winner of the International Language Testing Association (ILTA) Best Article Award. The award-winning paper, Towards a Theory of Diagnosis in Second and Foreign Language Assessment: Insights from Professional Practice Across Diverse Fields, was published in 2015 in the journal ''Applied Linguistics''. The study investigated how diagnosis is theorized and carried out across a diverse range of professions with a view to finding commonalities that can be applied to the context of second and foreign language assessment. On the basis of interviews with professionals from fields such as car mechanics, IT systems support, medicine, psychology and education, a set of principles was drawn up to facilitate inform a comprehensive theory of diagnostic assessment in a second or foreign language. On 9 October 2018, Harding was an invited speaker at

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He delivered a speech entitled "English as a Lingua Franca and Language Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities". As of 2019, he is a co-editor of the journal ''

''.

Research

In a journal article, published in 2012 in ''Language Testing'', Harding investigated the potential for a shared-L1 advantage on an academic English listening test featuring speakers with L2 accents.

Publications

Harding has published in several major journals such as ''Applied Linguistics'', ''

'', ''Language Teaching'', '' Assessing Writing'', and '' Language Assessment Quarterly''. He has also published journal articles with

Bibliography

Books

*Harding, L. (2011). ''Accent and listening assessment: A validation study of the use of speakers with L2 accents on an academic English listening test''. (Language Testing and Evaluation; Vol. 21). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Articles

*Elder, C., & Harding, L. (2008). Language Testing and English as an International Language Constraints and Contributions. ''

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Aus ...

, 31''(3), 34.1-34.11. *Harding, L., Pill, J., & Ryan, K. (2011). Assessor decision-making while marking a note-taking listening test: the case of the OET. '' Language Assessment Quarterly, 8''(2), 108-126. *Harding, L. (2012). Accent, listening assessment and the potential for a shared-L1 advantage: a DIF perspective. ''

, 29''(2), 163-180. *Harding, L. (2014). Communicative language testing: current issues and future research. '' Language Assessment Quarterly, 11''(2), 186-197. *Alderson, J. C., Brunfaut, T., & Harding, L. (2015). Towards a theory of diagnosis in second and foreign language assessment: insights from professional practice across diverse fields. ''

, 36''(2), 236-260. *Harding, L., Alderson, C., & Brunfaut, T. (2015). Diagnostic assessment of reading and listening in a second or foreign language: elaborating on diagnostic principles. ''

, 32''(3), 317-336. *Isaacs, T., & Harding, L. (2017). Pronunciation assessment. ''

Language Teaching Language education refers to the processes and practices of teaching a second or foreign language. Its study reflects interdisciplinary approaches, usually including some applied linguistics. There are four main learning categories for lan ...

, 50''(3), 347-366. *Alderson, J. C., Brunfaut, T., & Harding, L. (2017). Bridging assessment and learning: a view from second and foreign language assessment. '' Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 24''(3), 379-387. *Brunfaut, T., Harding, L., & Batty, A. (2018). Going online: The effect of mode of delivery on performances and perceptions on an English L2 writing test suite. '' Assessing Writing, 36'', 3-18. *Toomaneejinda, A., & Harding, L. W. (2018). Disagreement practices in ELF academic group discussion: Verbal, non-verbal and interactional strategies. '' Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 7''(2), 307–332. *Harding, L., Brunfaut, T., & Unger, J. W. (2019). Language testing in the 'hostile environment': The discursive construction of 'secure English language testing' in the United Kingdom. ''

''.

YouTube videos

* October 2018
Luke Harding: English as a Lingua Franca and Language Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities
ref> * June 2020: World Englishes and English as a lingua franca

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harding, Luke 1977 births Living people Applied linguists Linguists from Australia Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University University of Melbourne alumni Linguistics journal editors