Kellie Frost

Biographic Data

ID8903246
NAMEKellie Frost
GIVEN NAMESKellie
FAMILY NAMEFrost
SIGNATUREFROST K
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0002-3424-3161
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • McNamara, Timothy F.

    Open AccessKellie FrostCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2026

    Timothy Francis McNamara (Tim) (11 April 1949–15 September 2023) was a major figure in applied linguistics. He was Professor and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and from retirement in 2018, Professor Emeritus for the remaining five years of his life. He is widely recognized for his work on language and identity, and in the field of language testing, where …

  • Evaluating the logic of a policy-driven national language test in Indonesia

    Open AccessRahmad Adi Wijaya, Kellie FrostARTICLELanguage Testing2026

    This study examines the Test of Indonesian Proficiency ( Uji Kemahiran Berbahasa Indonesia [UKBI]), a national language test developed by the Indonesian government’s language planning agency, Badan Bahasa, and promoted for various uses across education, employment, and immigration domains. This is illustrative of broader trends; language tests, like UKBI, have become integral to policy agendas and can serve multiple social and political purposes,…

  • Fairness and justice in language testing

    Open AccessJohn Pill, Kellie Frost et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing2025

    Peer-reviewed

  • Claire Kramsch

    Open AccessLucy Davidson, Cathie Elder et al.ARTICLEApplied Linguistics2022

    In 2020 amidst the COVID-19 crisis, and in the final year of Donald Trump’s tumultuous Presidency, a group of Australian applied linguists met weekly via Zoom to discuss Claire Kramsch’s latest book, Language as Symbolic Power. As linguistics and language educators, we were a close fit for the book’s intended audience. Our weekly interactions, our unresolved questions, our resistances were distilled in a weekly e-mail to the author, provoking gen…

  • Local English testing in China’s tertiary education

    Open AccessJason Fan, Kellie Frost et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing2022

    Accompanying the still pervasive influence of the College English Test (CET), some universities in China, especially the higher-ranking ones, have in recent years devised and implemented their own local English testing regimes. This significant shift, however, has captured limited research attention. Building on considerations in local language testing and adopting a broad view of language tests as embedded within policy spaces, we examined the p…

  • Negotiating the boundaries of responsibility

    Open AccessKellie FrostARTICLEStudies in Language Assessment2021

    While the importance of accounting for the use of tests as policy instruments is by now widely acknowledged, validation frameworks in language testing rest on core assumptions which, I argue, preclude consideration of the lived experiences and subjectivities of test takers, and of the intentions and purposeful actions these experiences and subjectivities engender. As a result, the complex and dynamic ways that test taker actions are implicated in…

  • Teachers’ involvement in high-stakes language assessment reforms

    Open AccessJason Fan, Kellie Frost et al.ARTICLEStudies In Educational Evaluation2020

  • Responding to a Toefl iBT integrated speaking task

    Open AccessKellie Frost, Josh Clothier et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing2020

    Integrated speaking tasks requiring test takers to read and/or listen to stimulus texts and to incorporate their content into oral performances are now used in large-scale, high-stakes tests, including the TOEFL iBT. These tasks require test takers to identify, select, and combine relevant source text information to recognize key relationships between source text ideas, and to organize and transform information. Despite being central to evaluatio…

  • Language Tests, Language Policy, and Citizenship

    Kellie Frost, Tim Mcnamara et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Language…2018

    The role of language tests in immigration policy has attracted significant attention in recent years as the disruptive effects of globalisation are felt. Much of the research has focused on the situation in Europe, where societies that were traditionally not countries of immigration now have significant and increasing immigrant communities. Less attention has been paid to countries of immigration such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Un…

  • Investigating the validity of an integrated listening-speaking task

    Open AccessKellie Frost, Catherine Elder et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing2012

    Performance on integrated tasks requires candidates to engage skills and strategies beyond language proficiency alone, in ways that can be difficult to define and measure for testing purposes. While it has been widely recognized that stimulus materials impact test performance, our understanding of the way in which test takers make use of these materials in their responses, particularly in the context of listening-speaking tasks, remains predomina…