Testing, Assessment and Evaluation in English Language Education Voices from West and South Asia

Naziha Ali Raza has a Professional Doctorate (EdD) in TESOL from the University of Exeter and is a Senior Learning and Development Consultant at the General Civil Aviation Authority in Dubai, UAE. She has publlished work on CPD, teacher research, assessment and translingual pedagogy. Her last co-edited volume is English Language Teaching in Pakistan (Springer Nature, 2022) and her professional interests include teacher development, translingual pedagogy, program evaluation and training policy development. Naziha has served as the President of TESOL Arabia, now TESOL Conferences (2016); as a member of the TESOL International Association’s Affiliate Network Professional Council (2016-19) and the Nominating Committee (2020-21). She is now in the leadership committee of TESOL International Association’s Global Education Professional Network. Since 2010, Naziha has facillitated outreach teacher development in rural Pakistan as part of her commnity development intitiatives. She founded the Extensive Reading Foundation Pakistan (2010) and reaches out to teachers through her YouTube channel.

Christine Coombe has a Ph.D in Foreign/Second Language Education from The Ohio State University and is an Associate Professor at the Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai. Christine has co-authored/edited 60+ volumes on assessment/testing, research, teacher effectiveness, leadership and task-based teaching and learning. Dr Coombe served as TESOL International Association President (2011-2012) and as a member of the Board of Directors (2005-2007; 2010-2013). Christine received the British Council’s International Assessment Award for 2013. Her most recent honors were being named to TESOL’s 50@50 which “recognizes professionals who have made significant contributions to the TESOL profession within the past 50 years.” In 2018 she received the Alatis Award for exemplary service to TESOL. She was named to the US Department of State’s 30@30 list which recognizes the top 30 English Language Specialists over the past 30 years. Most recently, Christine was elected to serve on the Board of Trustees of TIRF and is now Immediate Past President of the English Language Testing Society.

Tanzeela Anbreen is a researcher and educator in the field of language testing and assessment, with a particular focus on multilingual contexts in South Asia. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Bedfordshire, UK, where her doctoral research investigated L2 writers’ revisions in academic English writing using keystroke logging. She has taught at six UK universities and has supervised postgraduate research, including language assessment, academic literacy, and corpus-based analysis. Her research interests span academic writing assessment, digital literacies, corpus linguistics, and the sociopolitical dimensions of testing in postcolonial contexts. She has been involved in British Council-funded projects and is currently working on studies exploring assessment fairness, metadiscourse in speaking tests, and language assessment literacy. In addition to her teaching and research in the UK, she actively collaborates with higher education institutions worldwide, including those in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Egypt, the Maldives, Oman, Myanmar, Jordan, China, Hong Kong, and Trinidad and Tobago.