Jan Langeslag, Emerging Researcher

Jan has a total of over 15 years of experience in English language teaching and assessment. He has delivered numerous workshops and trainings to teachers, school administrators and other test stakeholders throughout China and the broader East Asia region with the aim of improving language assessment literacy. Besides this, Jan has experience in managing test item creation, rater performance and has been involved in various projects centred on the implementation of technological solutions to test delivery and administration.

Areas of interest

  • Test taker corpus analysis
  • Development of linguistic complexity in L2 learners
  • Rater behaviour

Education

  • MA, Language Testing, Lancaster University, 2019
  • MSc, East Asian Business, University of Sheffield, 2010
  • BA, Oriental Languages and Communication (Japanese), Hogeschool Zuyd, Maastricht, 2006