Biography: Dr. Qin Xie currently works for the Education University of Hong Kong as Assistant Professor. Qin’s research covers the topics of washback, test development and validation, test preparation, diagnostic assessment of academic writing, and formative assessment. She has applied Structural Equation Modelling, Rasch measurement, and Cognitive Diagnostic Modelling in her research and published over 30 journal articles in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Assessing Writing, Educational Psychology, Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, Language Teaching, Research & Development in Higher Education, Systems, and Studies in Educational Evaluation, among others. Qin is an Associate Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly and Journal of Asia TEFL and an Editorial Board Member of three international journals, namely, Language Teaching Research Quarterly, rEFLections, and Language Education and Assessment. She has served the Asia Association of Language Assessment as an elected Member-at-Large for two terms since 2020. (Profile)

Email: qxie@eduhk.hk

Biography: Zhisheng (Edward) Wen is currently Professor and Interim Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Prof. Wen received his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has accumulated over 20 years of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience across the Greater Bay Area. His broad research interests are second language acquisition, task-based language teaching and learning, psycholinguistics and cognitive sciences, translanguaging practice and translation studies, with particular expertise in language aptitude and working memory research. Besides extensive paper publications in top journals (e.g., Language Teaching, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics etc.), he has authored and edited over 10 books in prestigious international publishers, guest-edited over 10 journal special issues. Recent books include "Working memory and second language learning" (Multilingual Matters, 2016), "Researching L2 task performance and pedagogy" (Benjamins, 2019), “Language aptitude: Theory, testing, research and practice” (Routledge, 2019), "Cambridge Handbook of working memory and language" (CUP, 2022), "Language aptitude theory and practice" (CUP, 2023), "Memory in science for society" (OUP, 2023), “Cognitive individual differences in second language acquisition: Theories, assessment, and pedagogy” (De Gruyter, 2023). (Profile)

Email: wenzhisheng@hotmail.com

Biography: Antony John Kunnan is a Principal Assessment Scientist at Duolingo and senior research fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are fairness of tests and testing practice, assessment literacy, research methods and statistics, ethics and standards, and language assessment policy for immigration and citizenship. He has publications in well-known journals and edited collections in applied linguistics and language assessment (95 in all). His latest authored book is Evaluating Language Assessments (Routledge, 2018), and his latest edited collection is a 4-volume set titled The Companion to Language Assessment (Wiley, 2014) and his latest journal article is "Developing a Scenario-based language assessment for the Asian university context" (with Cecilia Zhao and Coral Qin) in Language Assessment Quarterly in 2022. His newest edited volume The Concise Companion to Language Assessment (Wiley) will be published in 2024. He has also held professorships at California State University, Los Angeles; Tunghai University (as Fulbright Professor); University of Hong Kong; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; and the University of Macau. He is the founding editor of Language Assessment Quarterly and the Asian Association for Language Assessment (AALA). He was past president of the International Language Testing Association and is currently an Expert member of the Association of Language Testers of Europe. (Profile)