Professor and Chair, Applied Linguistics & TESL Rolfe Hall, Room 3300D, 3314 P.O. Box 951531 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531 fax: (310) 206-4118 lfbhumnet.ucla.edu,Lyle F. Bachman,Educated in Indiana University, 1971 Service as a Peace Corps Volunteer, teaching high school English in the Philippines. Spent three years at Tehran University in Iran developing an ESP reading curriculum,Experience,Spent two years at the Chinese University of Hong Kong developing an English language enhancement program He has been a faculty member at the University of Hawaii, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Now he is a professor in California University Los Angeles,Research Interests:,the nature of language ability factors that affect performance on language assessments relationships between individual learner characteristics and performance on language assessments,relationships between various types of strategies (e.g., learning, cognitive, metacognitive) and performance on language assessments the processes that are engaged by language assessment tasks applications of generalizability theory and item response theory to language tests,works,1. Language assessment 2. Second language acquisition 3. Language program evaluation,1. Language assessment,Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment. Cambridge University Press. 2004. “Some reflections on task-based language performance assessment“, Language Testing 19, (3) 2002. “Alternate interpretations of alternative assessments: some validity issues in educational performace assessments“, Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice 21, (3) 2002. “Modern language testing at the turn of the century: assuring that what we count counts“. Language Testing 17, (1) 2000. Language Testing in PracticeM. Oxford: OUP, 1996.,2. Second language acquisition,Interfaces between Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing Research. Cambridge University Press, 1998 (co-edited with Andrew D. Cohen) “Language testing-SLA interfaces: An update“ (with A.D. Cohen). In L.F. Bachman and A.D. Cohen, Eds. Interfaces between SLA and Language Testing Research. Cambridge University Press. “Language testing-SLA research interfaces.“ In R. Kaplan, ed. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Volume 9. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 193-209. 1989.,3. Language program evaluation,“Formative evaluation in ESP program development,“ In R. Mackay and J. D. Palmer, eds. Languages for Specific Purposes: Program Design and Evaluation. Newbury House. Pp. 106-16, 1981. “The development and use of criterion-referenced tests of language proficiency in language program evaluation.“ In R. K. Johnson, ed. The Second Language Curriculum. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 242-58. 1989.,AWARDS,the first winner of the TESOL/Newbury House Award won the Modern Language Association of Americas Kenneth Mildenberger Award for outstanding research publication twice. In 2004, he was awarded the prestigious International Language Testing Association - University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate Lifetime Achievement Award,