John Pill

Datos Biográficos

ID1631535
NOMBREJohn Pill
NOMBRESJohn
APELLIDOPill
FIRMAPILL J
AFILIACIONESAmerican University of Beirut, Lebanon
ORCID0000-0002-8799-0267
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAS2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Comparative Judgement for evaluating young learners’ EFL writing performances

    Open AccessRebecca Sickinger, Tineke Brunfaut et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing2025

    Comparative Judgement (CJ) is an evaluation method, typically conducted online, whereby a rank order is constructed, and scores calculated, from judges’ pairwise comparisons of performances. CJ has been researched in various educational contexts, though only rarely in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing settings, and is generally agreed to be a reliable method of evaluating performances. This study extends the CJ research base to young le…

  • Fairness and justice in language testing

    Open AccessJohn Pill, Kellie Frost et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing2025

    Peer-reviewed

  • Trust the test

    Open AccessSusy Macqueen, John Pill et al.ARTICLEStudies in Language Assessment2021

    English language proficiency is a deciding factor in the life opportunities of many thousands of applicants for Australian skilled migration every year. This paper focuses on the perspectives of professional bodies that use English language tests in their decisions. Taking an interpretative approach, we explore the meanings that policy makers from these organisations ascribe (as score users) to test standards (cut-scores) so that we can better un…

  • Interrogating the construct of communicative competence in language assessment contexts

    Open AccessCatherine Elder, Tim Mcnamara et al.ARTICLELanguage & Communication2017Citada por: 2Referencias: 20

  • Extending the scope of speaking assessment criteria in a specific-purpose language test

    Open AccessSally O’hagan, John Pill et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing2016

    Criticism of specific-purpose language (LSP) tests is often directed at their limited ability to represent fully the demands of the target language use situation. Such criticisms extend to the criteria used to assess test performance, which may fail to capture what matters to participants in the domain of interest. This paper reports on the outcomes of an attempt to expand the construct of a specific-purpose test through the inclusion of two new …

  • Drawing on indigenous criteria for more authentic assessment in a specific-purpose language test

    Open AccessJohn PillARTICLELanguage Testing2016

    The indigenous assessment practices (Jacoby & McNamara, 1999) in selected health professions were investigated to inform a review of the scope of assessment in the speaking sub-test of a specific-purpose English language test for health professionals, the Occupational English Test (OET). The assessment criteria in current use on the test represent a generalized view of language and are concerned with Overall Communicative Effectiveness, Fluency, …

  • Language test as boundary object

    Open AccessSusy Macqueen, John Pill et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing2016

    Objects that sit between intersecting social worlds, such as Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) tests, are boundary objects – dynamic, historically derived mechanisms which maintain coherence between worlds (Star & Griesemer, 1989). They emerge initially from sociopolitical mandates, such as the need to ensure a safe and efficient workforce or to control immigration, and they develop into standards (i.e. stabilized classifying mechanisms). In t…

  • How much is enough? Involving occupational experts in setting standards on a specific-purpose language test for health professionals

    Open AccessJohn Pill, Tim McnamaraARTICLELanguage Testing2016

    This paper considers how to establish the minimum required level of professionally relevant oral communication ability in the medium of English for health practitioners with English as an additional language (EAL) to gain admission to practice in jurisdictions where English is the dominant language. A theoretical concern is the construct of clinical communicative competence and its separability (or not) from other aspects of professional competen…

  • Defining the language assessment literacy gap

    Open AccessJohn Pill, Luke HardingARTICLELanguage Testing2013

    This study identifies a unique context for exploring lay understandings of language testing and, by extension, for characterizing the nature of language assessment literacy among non-practitioners, stemming from data in an inquiry into the registration processes and support for overseas trained doctors by the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing. The data come from Hansard transcripts of public hearings of t…

  • Health Professionals' Views of Communication

    Open AccessCathie Elder, John Pill et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly2012Referencias: 7

    Health professionals' views of communication: implications for assessing performance on a health-specific English language test