Sawaki Yasuyo

サワキヤスヨ | Sawaki Yasuyo

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor

Research field (1)： Foreign language education

Research keywords (1)： language assessment, applied linguistics, English education

Research theme for competitive and other funds (5)：

2020 - 2024 Developing and validating an online tool for learning and teaching how to write summaries in English
2016 - 2019 Examining Japanese university students' ability to write summaries in English and developing summarization instruction materials for university-level L2 writing education in Japan
2016 - 2019 Examining Japanese university students' summary writing ability and developing materials for summarization instruction in university English courses
2010 - 2016 Investigating the relative effectivenes of various types of performance feedback on reading performance for TOEFL iBT test preparation
2011 - 2015 The Use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in Academic and Business Contexts in Japan - An analysis of its use and implications for language education

Papers (35)：

Yasuyo Sawaki. Book review: C. A. Chapelle and E. Voss (Eds.), Validity Argument in Language Testing: Case Studies of Validation Research. Language Testing. 2023
Sawaki, Y. Do the TOEFL iBT® section scores provide value-added information to stakeholders?. Langauge Testing. 2018. 35. 4. 529-556
Maya Sugita McEown, Yasuyo Sawaki, Tetsuo Harada. Foreign Language Learning Motivation in the Japanese Context: Social and Political Influences on Self. Modern Language Journal. 2017. 101. 3. 533-547
Sawaki, Y. The effects of different levels of performance feedback on TOEFL iBT ® Reading practice test performance. TOEFL iBT Research Report No. TOEFLiBT-29. 2017
University faculty members’ perspectives on English language demands in content courses and a reform of university entrance examinations in Japan: a needs analysis. Language Testing in Asia. 2017. 7. 13

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Books (13)：

Computer-based testing. In G. Fulcher & L. Harding (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of language testing (2nd ed., pp. 530-544)
2022
Generalizabiilty theory. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of research design (2nd ed.. pp. 618-620)
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 2022
Developing summary content scoring criteria for university L2 writing instruction in Japan. In G. J. Ockey, & B. Green (Eds.), Another generation of fundamental considerations in language assessment: A festschrift in honor of Lyle F. Bachman (pp. 153-171)
New York: Springer 2020
Univariate generalizability theory in language assessment, In V. Aryadoust & M. Raquel (Eds.), Quantitative data analysis for language assessment (Vol 1, pp.30-53)
New York: Routledge 2019
Methods of test validation. In E. Shohamy, L. Or, & S. May (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language and education, Volume 7, Language testing and assessment (pp. 193-209)
New York: Springer 2017

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Lectures and oral presentations (46)：

Assessing content for enhancing construct representation in source-based writing performance assessment
(40th Language Testing Research Colloquium 2018)
Generalizability of content analytic rating scales for assessing university-level Japanese EFL learners’ summarization performance
(Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing: An International Conference in Honor of Lyle Bachman 2017)
English language demands at universities; What is the construct of “academic English” in the Japanese context? In L. Cheng (Chair), How does context mediate construct and content? A political, social, and pedagogical analysis of English language testing in Asia
(38th Language Testing Research Colloquium 2016)
English language demands at universities; What is the construct of “academic English” in the Japanese context? In L. Cheng (Chair), How does context mediate construct and content? A political, social, and pedagogical analysis of English language testing i
(38th Language Testing Research Colloquium 2016)
Japanese students’ and teachers’ perception and use of score reports for two large-scale EFL tests
(37th Language Testing Research Colloquium 2015)

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Education (3)：

- 2003 University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School, Department of Applied Linguistics applied linguistics, language assessment
- 2003 University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School, Department of Applied Linguistics applied linguistics, language assessment
- 1995 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Division of English as an International Language Teaching English as a second language

Professional career (3)：

Work history (5)：

2014 - Professor, Department of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (Since April to Present)
2009 - Associate Professor, Department of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (April to March 2014)
2006/09 - Research Scientist, Center for Validity Research, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. (September February 2009)
2003/08 - Associate Research Scientist, Center for Validity Research, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. (August August 2006)
1996 - Research Assistant, Department of American and English Literature, Showa Women's University, Tokyo, Japan (April March 1998)

Committee career (13)：

2022/01 - 現在 Asian Association for Language Assessment (AALA) First Vice President
2014/06 - 2021/12 Asian Association for Language Assessment (AALA) Secretary/Treasurer
2016/04 - Japan Language Testing Association (JLTA) Board Member
2016/04 - 日本言語テスト学会 (JLTA) 理事
2014/06 - アジア言語テスト学会 (AALA) 事務局長

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Awards (1)：

Association Membership(s) (3)：

Asian Association for Language Assessment , International Language Testing Association (ILTA) , Japan Language Testing Association

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