Professional Background
Associate Professor of Language and Education
Educational Background
B.A., Marietta College; M.A., University of Colorado; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Scholarly Interests
Second and foreign language assessment; Language Program Evaluation; Assessment of Grammatical Ability; Cognitive Dimensions of L2 Assessments;
Selected Publications
Assessing Grammar (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Strategy Use and Second Language Test Performance (Cambridge University Press).
Validating Questionnaires to Examine Personal Factors in L2 Test Performance. In M. Milanovich & C. Weir (Eds.), European Language Testing in a Global Context. Proceedings of the Association of Language Testers of Europe (ALTE) Conference of Barcelona. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
An analysis of the relationships between test takers' cognitive and metacognitive strategy use and second language test performance" (Language Learning).
The development and construct validation of an instrument designed to investigate the cognitive background characteristics of test takers (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
"A Review of Bialystok's Communication Strategies" (Issues in Applied Linguistics).
James E. Purpura
Associate Professor of Language and Education
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