Research Statement

Presentations

• Palmer, A. S., Dixon, D. H., Dixon, T. O., & Christison, M. A. (2020). Using digital technology to educate language teachers about the design, development, and use of research in applied linguistics. Poster session accepted for World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), August 9-14, Groningen, the Netherlands. (Conference cancelled due to COVID). (refereed). Presentation, Accepted, 02/01/2020.
• Palmer, A. S., Dixon, D. H., Christison, M. A., & Dixon, T. O. (2020). Justifying the design and use of research in applied linguistics. Paper accepted for the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), March 29, 2020, Denver, Colorado. (Conference cancelled because of COVID). (refereed). Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 01/01/2020.
• “Discovery Learning and the contribution of software to teaching language test design and development” (with Daniel Dixon and Mary Ann Christison). Paper presented at the Language Learning Roundtable at the 2018 Language Testing Research Colloquium. July 2, 2018. Auckland, New Zealand. Presentation, Presented, 07/02/2018.
• Test-ifize: Software for assessment design and instruction (with Daniel Dixon). Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing: An International Conference in Honor of Lyle F. Bachman. June 2, 2017. Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/02/2017.
• Introduction of Lyle Bachman. 30 minute invited presentation. Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing: An International Conference in Honor of Lyle F. Bachman. June 1, 2017. Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/01/2017.
• “Test-ify, a web-based application for assessment design and development” (with Daniel Dixon). Professional demonstration at LTRC 2016. Palermo, Sicily (Italy). Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/22/2016.
• “Language assessment in the real world.” Invited plenary lecture at NCTE 2016: New ELT Paradigms: Dare to Join the Change. Centro Cultural Costaricaense Norteamericano. Thursday, January 28, 2016. San José, Costa Rica. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/28/2016.
• “Justifying assessment use.” Invited workshop at NCTE 2016: New ELT Paradigms: Dare to Join the Change. Centro Cultural Costaricaense Norteamericano. Wednesday, January 27, 2016. San José, Costa Rica. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 01/27/2016.
• “Justifying assessment use.” Invited workshop at NCTE 2016: New ELT Paradigms: Dare to Join the Change. Centro Cultural Costaricaense Norteamericano. Wednesday, January 27, 2016. San José, Costa Rica. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/27/2016.
• “Language assessment in the real world.” Invited workshop presented at Centro Cultural Salvadoreño Americano (CCSA) July 5, 2015, San Salvador, El Salvador. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/05/2015.
• “Justifying language assessment development and use.” Paper presented at the 33rd National Conference for Teachers of English. November 4, 2014, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/04/2014.
• “Justifying the use of language assessments.” Paper presented at the ABLA (Association of Binational Centers of Latin America) Conference, Florianopolis, Brazil. September 24, 2014. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/24/2014.
• “Using an Assessment Use Argument to develop language tests and justify their use” (with Lyle Bachman and Daniel Dixon). Two-day workshop at LTRC 2014. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June 2-3, 2014. Other, Presented, 06/02/2014.
• “Workshop on formative assessment” (with MaryAnn Christison). Invited workshop at the TESOL Kuwait Preconference Workshops, Australian College of Kuwait, Kuwait City. Presentation, Presented, 11/14/2013.
• “Justifying assessment development and use.” Invited plenary address at the 5TH ELT Horizons International Conference 2012, Lima, Peru. May 25 & 26, 2012. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2012.
• “Workshop in assessment justification.” Invited workshop at the 5TH ELT Horizons International Conference 2012, Lima, Peru. July May 25 & 26, 2012. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2012.
• “The role of justification in assessment development and use.” Invited plenary presentation at the National Teachers of English Conference, Guatemala City, Guatemala. November 2-4, 2011. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/02/2011.
• "Workshop in assessment use justification.” Invited presentation at TESOL Chile, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdevia, Chile. Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2011. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/02/2011.
• "Justifying assessment use in educational leadership.” Invited Keynote Speaker at TESOL Chile, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdevia, Chile. Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2011. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/02/2011.
• "Assessment Use Arguments as a basis for assessment development and use.” Invited plenary address at the 35th FAAPI Conference, Cordoba, Argentina. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/26/2010.
• “Assessment and evaluation of autonomous learning.” Chulalongkorn University Language Institute. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/20/2010.
• "Assessment Use Arguments as a basis for assessment development and use." Khon Kaen University Language Institute, Khon Kaen University, Bangkok, Thailand. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/16/2010.

Software Titles

• RUA. Python-based app for design and use of applied linguistics research. Release Date: 08/10/2019. Inventors: Adrian Palmer, Daniel Dixon, MaryAnn Christison, Tulay dixon. Distribution List: Students in Palmer's L2 Research Design class, Univ. of Utah.
• Test-ifize. A web-based application for language assessment design and development. Developed under license from Oxford University Press. Period of development: 2012 to present. Development cost: $25,000 (self funded). Release Date: 06/22/2016. Inventors: Adrian Palmer and Daniel Dixon. Distribution List: Students in Adrian Palmer's Language Assessment classes at the University of Utah from 2013 to present, as well as all participants at a demonstration of the software at the Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC 2016). Palermo, Sicily (Italy). June 23, 2016.
• Test-ifize. A web-based application for language assessment design and development. This software was field tested and revised extensively during the 2017 academic year. Release Date: 06/22/2016. Inventors: Adrian Palmer and Daniel Dixon. Distribution List: Students in Adrian Palmer's Language Assessment classes at the University of Utah from 2013 to present, as well as all participants at a demonstration of the software at the Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC 2016). Palermo, Sicily (Italy). June 23, 2016. Global Impact (Global).

Languages

• French, functional.
• German, functional.
• Spanish, functional.
• Thai, fluent.
• Western Farsi, functional.

Geographical Regions of Interest

• Argentina
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Brazil
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Cambodia
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Canada
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Chile
  Presented at professional conferences.
• China
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Colombia
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Costa Rica
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Dominican Republic
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Ecuador
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Egypt
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Germany
• Greece
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Guatemala
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
  Presented at professional conferences.
• India
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Indonesia
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Iran, Islamic Republic of
  Lived in Iran, speak Farsi, wrote PhD dissertation on Farsi.
• Italy
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Japan
• Kuwait
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Lao People's Democratic Republic
  Presented at professional conferences, speak Lao.
• Mexico
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Morocco
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Myanmar
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Netherlands
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Panama
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Peru
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Puerto Rico
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Qatar
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Republic of Korea
• Singapore
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Slovakia
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Spain
• Sri Lanka
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Syrian Arab Republic
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Taiwan
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Thailand
  Worked in Thailand for almost five years, speak Thai, conducted extensive second language acquisition research in Thailand, taught Thai at the University of Michigan, published textbooks for teaching Thai. I return every year for professional work and to keep up personal contacts.
• Tunisia
  Presented at professional conferences.
• Turkey
  Presented at professional conferences.
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  Presented at professional conferences.
• United States of America
  Live and work in U.S. Presented at professional conferences.
• Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  Presented at professional conferences.

Publications

• Christison, Mary Ann & Adrian Palmer (2018). Communication strategies and teaching speaking.. (pp. 1629-1634). Wiley/Blackwell Publishers. Published, 02/01/2018.
• Palmer, A.S. & Christison, M. A. (2017). Communication strategies and teaching speaking.. Wiley/Blackwell Publishers. Published, 12/31/2017.
• Purpura, J. E., & Christison, M. A. (2016). A lifetime of language testing: An interview with Adrian (Buzz) Palmer. Language Assessment Quarterly. 13(2), 142-155. London, UK: Taylor & Francis Group. Published, 05/11/2016.
• Christison, M. A., Tomaš, Z., Hiller, K. E., & Palmer, A. S. (2016). Creating a professional development program to support faculty in an English-medium university of science and technology. In J. Crandall & M. A. Christison (Eds.) Global research on teacher education and professional development in TESOL (pp. 205-223). New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Published, 05/2016.
• Palmer, Adrian. "Teaching Communication: Back to the 60s." English Teaching Forum, 50:4. Washington, DC: United States Department of State Office of English Language Programs. Published, 10/2012.
• Language Assessment in Practice: Developing Language Assessments and Justifying their Use in the Real World. (With L. Bachman). Oxford Univ. Press. 2010. Winner of SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing (2009-2012). Published, 04/01/2010.
• Language Assessment in Practice. Published, 03/2010.
• Seeking the Heart of Teaching. (With MaryAnn Christison). Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. Published, 02/13/2007.
• Return to Sender. Interactive Video Course for Japanese Students. (With Geraldine de Berly, Mary Ann Christison, and Jean Zukowski-Faust.) 16 videotaped dramatic episodes, 16 student videos, 16 teacher videos Studio Miramar, San Francisco), student workbook, teacher's workbook. Tokyo: Asian Communications Net. Published, 04/02/1997.
• Language Testing in Practice: Designing and Developing Useful Language Tests. (With L. Bachman). Oxford Univ. Press. (Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize for an outstanding research publication in the field of teaching foreign languages and literature.). Published, 02/01/1996.
• The Construct Validation of Tests of Communicative Competence, (including proceedings of a colloquium at TESOL '79, Boston). Edited with P. Groot and G. Trosper. Washington, D. C.: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. Published, 02/04/1991.
• The Listening Approach: A Manual for Teaching Languages Using Krashen's Theory. (With J. Marvin Brown) New York: Longman, Inc. Published, 02/12/1987.
• Back & Forth: Pair Activities for Language Development. (With T. Rodgers and Judy W. B. Olsen) Hayward, Calif. Janus-Alemany Press. Published, 02/20/1985.
• Personal Relations: Book 2 "At the Office." (With G. Trosper and G. Esarey). New York: Pergamon Press. Published, 02/10/1985.
• Personal Relations: Book 1 "School Days." (With G. Trosper and G. Esarey) New York: Pergamon Press. Published, 02/05/1985.
• Getting Along in English. (With M. Kimball) New York: Longman, Inc. Published, 02/04/1981.
• A.U.A. Language Center Thai Course: Dialog Book B, "Getting Help With Your Thai." Bangkok, Thailand: American University Alumni Association Language Center. Published, 02/10/1977.
• A.U.A. Language Center Thai Course: Dialog Book A, "Small Talk." Bangkok, Thailand: American University Alumni Association Language Center. Published, 02/14/1974.