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Huiying Cai

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Contact Information

3036 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801
RA
TA
PhD Student

Research Interests

Language testing

Writing assessment

Computational linguistics

Quantitative research methods

 

Education

M.A. Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, Zhejiang University, China, 2020

B.A., English Language and Literature, Zhejiang University, China, 2017

 

Grants

LTTC Joint-Funded Research Grant, The Language Training & Testing Center, Taipei, Taiwan (August 2022)

 

Awards and Honors

C.W. Kim Research Award, Department of Linguistics, UIUC, Urbana, IL (May 2024)

Graduate Student Award Nominee, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) (March 2024)

Conference Travel Award, Department of Linguistics, UIUC, Urbana, IL (November 2023)

Graduate Student Award Nominee, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), (March 2023)

Conference Travel Award, Department of Linguistics, UIUC, Urbana, IL (February 2023)

 

Courses Taught

LING 413 Corpus Linguistics (TA)

LING 402 Tools & Technology in Speech and Language Processing (TA)

ESL 522 Introduction to Business Writing (Instructor)

 

Highlighted Publications

Cai, H. & Yan, X. (2024). Examining the direct and indirect impacts of verbatim source use on linguistic complexity in integrated argumentative writing assessment. Assessing Writing, 61, 100868.

Cai, H. & Yan, X. (2024). Triangulating natural language processing (NLP)-based analysis of rater comments and many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM): An innovative approach to investigating raters’ application of rating scales in writing assessment. Language Testing, 41(2), 384–411.