Ping-Lin Chuang

Contact Information

3036 Foreign Languages Building

plc2@illinois.edu

Office Hours

Spring 2023: MW 2-3pm

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Research Interests

Language testing and assessment

Second language writing

English for academic purposes

Educational measurement

Education

M.A., TESL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018
B.A., English, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, 2015

Recent Publications

Ping-Lin Chuang and Xun Yan (2022). An investigation of the relationship between argument structure and essay quality in assessed writing. Journal of Second Language Writing.

Xun Yan and Ping-Lin Chuang (2022). How do raters learn to rate?: Many-facet Rasch modeling of rater performance over the course of a rater certification program. Language Testing.

Ping-Lin Chuang and Xun Yan (2021). Book review: Assessing English for professional purposes. Language Testing, 38(1), 182-185.

In The News

Congratulations to Ping-Lin Chuang for receiving the Duolingo Dissertation Award and being selected as a student editorial member for JSLW!
Ping-Lin Chuang, graduate student in the Linguistics department, has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award, for her dissertation titled “What makes an argument effective? Triangulating task characteristics, essay performances, and rating...
Congratulations to Ping-Lin Chuang for being offered to join the Research and Measurement Sciences intership program at ETS!
Graduate student Ping-Lin Chuang has received an offer to join the 2022 Summer Research and Measurement Sciences (RMS) internship program at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton. The ETS internship program is the most competitive internship in language testing that is dedicated to...
Congratulations to Ping-Lin Chuang for winning the MwALT 2021 best presentation award
Graduate student Ping-Lin Chuang’s paper (Argumentation structure and quality as validity evidence for integrated writing assessment) was selected for the best presentation award at the 2021 MwALT (Midwest Association of Language Testers) conference, which took place over the weekend of...