About
Welcome to LATU!
We are a research unit within the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) at the University of Southampton. The PGR Special Interest Group in Language Testing and Assessment (SIGLTA) that has been running for 10 years is now part of our research unit.
Our vision is to provide a forum for knowledge generation, dissemination and exchange in language assessment and testing and to build new collaborations in this important applied linguistics field. Our research expertise covers the following areas:
- language performance assessment
- corpus-based approaches to language assessment
- writing assessment, assessing multimodality
- assessment in English-medium instruction
- standard setting, large-scale testing, comparative judgement
- testing validation and psychometrics
Language Testing Forum 2025
We celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Language Testing Forum (LTF) and the 10th anniversary of the UK Association for Language Testing and Assessment (UKALTA) at the 2025 conference!
